INDIANAPOLIS — The Christian Theological Seminary Faith & Action Project has awarded grants totaling $105,000 for four efforts aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty in Indianapolis.
The 2022 grant recipients are:
• Marian Faith Community Nursing. Marian University’s Leighton School of Nursing will use its grant for Marian Family and Community Nursing, an effort to provide ten $500 scholarships to neighborhood communities of faith so each can send one registered nurse to train as a Faith Community Nurse.
• Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Through its 4:8 Fund, Redeemer Presbyterian Church will use its grant to increase access to mental health services to people of color.
• Shepherd Community Center. With its grant, Shepherd Community Center will expand its collection and evaluation of data related to its poverty-alleviation work and improve its service-delivery systems. Shepherd is collaborating in a research project currently underway at IUPUI that will result in a replicable, evidence-based approach to place-based poverty alleviation.
• Trusted Mentors. Trusted Mentors will use its grant to support and expand its mentoring program that helps adults and young adults avoid or emerge from homelessness. The funds will provide necessary staffing to recruit, train, and support mentors and maintain relationships with partnering agencies in an effort to help 80 participating adults and young adults end the cycle of poverty.