310 Unizan Bank Plaza
400 Market Avenue North, Suite 300
Canton, OH 44702
p: 330.454.5800
www.scfcanton.org

Key Initiatives:
Quality Child Care: A long-term initiative to improve early education and child care has helped to increase the number of nationally accredited child care centers from one to more than 50 in Stark County. The County was later chosen as one of eight U.S. sites to receive a $5 million SPARK Initiative grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation with the Sisters of Charity Foundation planning and overseeing efforts to prepare three- to six-year-olds for school.

Prescription Assistance: Since 2001, the Stark Prescription Assistance Network of funders, social service agencies and health care providers has helped the uninsured, underinsured, and Medicaid/Medicare population in Stark County obtain needed medications. This program has achieved more than $3 million in savings by identifying free or discounted drugs for people in need.

Oral Health: The Bethlehem Project improved access to dental care services for low-income children and their families via home visitations and case management to at-risk children up to three years of age. The Foundation also worked with Mercy Medical Center to launch the hospital’s General Practice Residency in Dentistry and Dental Clinic that opened in 2007.