Fire Prevention and Safety Program
4/26/05
Fire Prevention and Safety Grant Proposal
Upon reviewing your application, the budget was reduced by $2,100. The Program Office has reduced the accounting/reporting costs to $1,500. If awarded the Fire Prevention and Safety Grant 2004 the total project cost will be reduced from $48,745 to $46,645. The federal share will be reduced from $43,871 to $41,981. The applicant match will be reduced from $4,874 to $4,664. If you accept these changes please do a follow up email acknowledging said changes.
2005
The Fire Prevention and Safety Grant was approved in June of 2006. The initial amount of homes were slightly offset due to the amount of time that was needed to fully train and educate our Lay Health Advisors in order to give the most correct information to residents. In this year, presentations were given in 66 at risk homes where a total of 68 children lived. There were also presentations made to local elementary schools as well as community events.
2006
This year, a total of 6 Lay Health Advisors provided valuable education for fire safety to 250 homes where a total of 316 children lived. In addition to fire safety information, parents were also informed about health care information and social service programs that were available, such as head start, daycare and medical insurance.
2007
In 2007, the Fire Prevention Grant included a community awareness component to their education to assist more community members of the resource they provide in their neighborhoods by becoming educated in disaster preparedness and response. They provided training dates and times available to neighborhoods wishing to become more involved in assisting themselves and others in preventing and preparing for local disasters. This year's education outreach effort produced 334 more prepared children in over 223 homes.
2008
To date, this year's outreach has expanded to 27 additional homes receiving smoke detectors and education to protect 45 more children against harm. From the program's start, a total of 563 smoke detectors have been installed to protect families with over 760 children.