Education and Media

Community Access, Inc.
$50,000 Fred Friendly Seminars/Columbia University $75,000
A one-year grant, approved in 2011, for standardizing and expanding a jobs and education curriculum for mental health consumers, many of whom have a forensic background.

Steve Coe, CEO
2 Washington Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10004

A two-year grant of $150,000, approved in 2010, for production of a TV and website program, WHEN WAR HITS HOME: PTSD, to explore the outcome of post-traumatic stress disorder on US veterans.

Richard Kilberg, President
Barbara Margolis, Executive Director
2950 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Montgomery County Community College Foundation $50,000 National Alliance on Mental Illness/NAMI $25,000
A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2011, for expansion of the POWER Program to include mentally ill adolescents and young adults in order to prepare them for college or jobs. A two-year grant of $70,000, approved in 2010, for expansion of Parents and Teachers as Allies, which is training in the recognition of early onset mental illness in children and adolescents, and for outreach to Latinos.
Diane Haar, POWER Program Director
340 DeKalb Pike
Blue Bell, PA 19422
Michael Fitzpatrick,
MSW, Executive Director
3803 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100
Arlington, VA 22203
Ramapo for Children $50,000
A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2010, for Ramapo Training, which instructs and monitors educators and youth workers in behavior management, staff supervision, and in the planning of classrooms and other settings so that emotionally disturbed children and adolescents are included in them.

Adam Weiss, CEO
P.O. Box 266
Rhinebeck, NY 12572

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