Countywide : 2 Centers May Get Grants From County

The County Board of Supervisors today will consider giving grants of $5,000 each to the Adam Walsh Center of California and the Huntington Beach Community Clinic.

The Walsh center, in Orange,is a nonprofit agency and a branch of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The center has a dual focus, acting both as a child recovery unit and as a safety education program.

The $5,000 would pay for efforts to find missing youths, counseling for their families, and the group’s broad community education campaigns, county records show.

The Huntington Beach clinic is a nonprofit agency that provides low-cost health care to residents of the city and southwest Orange County.

The clinic offers general medical care, psychological counseling and community education, and all fees are charged on a sliding scale that gauges each client’s ability to pay.

The grant would go toward operational expenses at the clinic, at 17692 Beach Blvd., with an emphasis on its mental health counseling program for lower-income citizens.

About 50 Community Social Programs Grants are given out by the county each year, ranging from about $500 to $5,000, grant program manager Shelby J. Brown said.

The grants are given to programs and facilities countywide, such as day-care centers, shelters, community clinics, senior citizen programs and school district social programs.

Meetings of the Board of Supervisors are open to the public.

The supervisors meet at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays in the Board Hearing Room on the first floor of the county Hall of Administration, 10 Civic Center Plaza in Santa Ana.

Call (714) 834-3100 for more information.