The Health Foundation of South Florida has awarded more than $1.8 million to seven agencies that provide services to children.

The foundation supports health care as well as education and research into health. These are the grant recipients:

* Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches, $328,500; to sponsor three South Florida children for a three-year period in a residential-care program. The youth ranches aim to prevent juvenile delinquency.

* University of Miami's Department of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, $300,000; for a study aiming to promote the optimal growth and development of infants exposed to illegal substances while in the womb.

* ARISE Foundation, $250,000; for the Best Citizen Builder Campaign, which through four programs (Mini-Cops, Enviro-Cops, Secrets of Success and Sprouts), helps indigent children from kindergarten to high school.

* CHARLEE Supported Foster Care Program, $250,000; to improve the quality of foster care in Dade County by training potential parents and by adding case managers.

* Spectrum Programs, $250,000; to implement two projects designed to decrease substance abuse among adolescents.

* New Hope Charities, $243,033; to support New Hope Health Center's Hope for Young People Program, which provides information about teen pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, hygiene and nutrition to adolescents in rural Pahokee.

* Kristi House, $200,000; to provide therapy, referral services and other care to youngsters who have been sexually abused.

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