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Appalachian Life Quality Initiative (ALQI)
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$145,000
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Program Description:
Created in 1999 and located in Oneida, TN bringing healthcare, educational, and related services to the underserved children in ten counties of TN, KY and VA with Scott County, a Federal Empowerment Community, as its program base. It presently lists 15 programs operating in Scott County alone. ALQI assists the programs with administrative, grant writing, and other services for up to 5 years or until they are able to operate on their own.
Program Long-Term Success:
Scott County TN has approximately 22,000 citizens with over 4,000 children on welfare. In 1999 no dentist in the county would accept welfare patients. Today the Dental Clinic has seen over 4,900 children; Children's Center of the Cumberlands--a child advocacy center sees 200 children annually; Schools Together Allowing No Drugs (STAND) works in the schools; Boys & Girls Club of Scott County is in a new 40,000 sq ft facility with over 1,000 members; Imagination Library was notified it was the first organization of any county anywhere to achieve 100% registration of eligible children; Children's Health and Maintenance Program (CHAMP)works in the 10 schools; Winfield School Academic Fund provides grants to all the teachers annually; and the important Data Collection program are among the 15 programs of ALQI that have made a difference in Scott County and brought it to the attention of organizations nationwide as evidenced by the recent award from the Tennessee Rural Health Association and the award to Executive Director Terrie Cross by the Purpose Prize.org.
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Scott County Dental Clinic
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Program Description:
The Clinic sees children up to age 21. It accepts TennCare (welfare) and others pay on a sliding scale. No child is turned away.
Program Long-Term Success:
In 1999 no dentist in the county would accept TennCare (welfare) and there were 4,000 children who had to travel outside the county for dental care. Today the Clinic has seen over 4,900 children. It participates in the school screenings, works with data collections, and provides scholarships to those unable to pay.
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Boys & Girls Club of Scott County
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$500,000
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Program Description:
Started in 2 schools in 2002, the Boys & Girls Club of Scott County now resides in a new 40,000 sq ft, $2.8 million facility and has over 1,000 members. The Club is fully funished with 36 computers on-line; a library; a regulation sized gymnasium; 2 outdoor playgrounds and soccer field. Paid for by a Capital Campaign through Appalachian Life Quality Initiative and 2 bond issues through the Town of Oneida and the Scott County Government. This is the largest Boys & Girls Club in a rural area in the United States in a county that ranks among the highest in the state for unemployment and welfare. It takes a community who cares to do this!
Program Long-Term Success:
Located in the population center of the county, this Club is a safe haven for latch key children. With 200 in daily attendance it has provided families the ability to have two "bread winners" in the family thus alleviating the poverty so prevelent in our area. Data collection has shown that children attending the Boys & Girls Club improve in their daily attendance in school. The entire community supports this program.
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Imagination Library
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$2,000
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Program Description:
Dolly Parton's program that provides free books each month through the US mail delivered to children from birth to age 5.
Program Long-Term Success:
Notified in 2007 that Scott County TN was the first county in the United States to register and provide books to 100% of the children in the specified age range. The Governor of the State of TN provides HALF the cost of the books for all the counties in the state with an active program. Time will tell if this program, began in 2004, will improve the reading skills of children when they begin school. We think it will.
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Data Processing
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$85,000
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Working with the programs of ALQI, the schools and the community, this program collects data on dental screenings, BMI; Short form Assessment Forms (SAC); grades; and attendance. Efforts of a University of Tennessee Research Professor and the University of Oak Ridge TN Epidemiology Group make this data scientifically verifiable.
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Teachers can sometimes look at the data on a student and remark "I thought something was wrong" and feel confident in acting on it. The schools appreciate the work put into this program that is provided to them free of charge.
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