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Charitable Ventures of OC - Santa Ana Grants for Blocks- Connect to Council Rank: 42 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 4b Score: 70.4% Funding Request: $ 65,880 Connect to Council (C2C) proposes to work with residents, community organizations, local schools, community partners and the City to strengthen neighborhood groups, create safe environments, improve health and wellness, and create opportunities for neighbors to help neighbors to increase leadership skills and the capacity of neighborhood associations to more effectively solve problems and fully utilize resources that they do not know are available to help improve neighborhood conditions and community health and to access fresh produce and the arts. Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County - Smiles X -Press Teledentistry Program Rank: 43 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 6c Score: 70.2% Funding Request: $ 125,000 The Smiles X -Press Teledentistry program is an innovative service that seeks to ensure that every child in Orange County has access to oral health care by utilizing telehealth technology to provide dental care in underserved communities. Healthy Smiles has begun implementing this program in elementary and preschools, including within Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD). With funding from the city of Santa Ana, Healthy Smiles can offer the Smile X -Press program at an additional five schools, providing thousands of children with a Virtual Dental Home. Legal Aid Society of Orange County - Health Consumer Action Center Rank: 44 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 6d Score: 69.2% Funding Request: $ 110,579 LASOC will provide Santa Ana residents with holistic legal services to improve their health and wellness by working with the California Endowment and creating medical legal partnerships with other nonprofits to assist Santa Ana residents who are not able to access health coverage or navigate through the health care system due to systemic barriers and problems. LASOC will provide outreach, legal representation, health retention and utilization assistance, consultation, advocacy, information, education, referrals, advice and counsel, and one-on-one legal assistance where Santa Ana residents have direct access to in-depth legal representation in the areas of dissolution of marriage, paternity, child support, child custody, landlord -tenant, bankruptcy, employment law, health, tax, permanent orders, and immigration relief. Young Women's Christian Assoc of No. Orange Co - Neighborhood Link to Breast Cancer Screening Rank: 45 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 6c Score: 68.6% Funding Request: $ 35,000 The purpose of our program is to provide quality breast cancer screening and breast self-awareness to 4,000 at -risk, multicultural, uninsured women, 40 years or older, in their own neighborhoods, in their own languages, and in a manner consistent with their cultural belief. We work with two mobile digital mammogram vendors who provide digital state of the art mammograms and navigate women to diagnostic care. Should cancer be detected, we partner with local breast cancer centers that provide surgery and follow up care. Pg. 10 6501-16