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Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents
| Andrus Children’s Center/Andrus Memorial |
$75,000
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Animation Project |
 $20,000
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| A two-year grant of $150,000, approved in 2010, for the assessment of at-risk children, aged two to five, to identify and treat mental-health and neurological problems.
Nancy Woodruff Ment, LCSW, President and CEO |
A two-year grant of $40,000, approved in 2011, towards operating support of this alternative-to-incarceration program for traumatized young people; the project teaches them to use digital technology and to produce a video as a group under the supervision of an art therapist.
Brian Austin, Founder and Director |
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| Arise Academy Charter High School |
$50,000
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Big Apple Circus |
 $50,000
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| A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2011, for a social worker trained in trauma therapy to treat foster care adolescents in the school.
Jill Welsh-Davis, Board President |
A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2011, for the Clown Care Unit at Harlem Hospital.
Andrea Salwen Kopel, Vice President of Community Programs |
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| Baruch College/Research Foundation of the City University of New York |
$75,000
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Calvary Hospital Fund/United States Catholic Conference |
$10,000
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| A two-year grant of $150,000, approved in 2011, for salary support of a licensed psychologist in The Counseling Center to expand triage services and to coordinate treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.
Evelyn Roberts, PhD, Foundation Relations |
A two-year grant of $20,000, approved in 2011, for bereavement support groups for children and teens and for a summer day camp for them in Brooklyn.
Leslie Bernstein, Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations |
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| Comunilife |
$52,000
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Drexel University |
$85,000
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A two-year grant of $104,000, approved in 2011, for continued support of Life Is Precious, a suicide prevention program for Latina adolescents.
Rosa Gil, DSW, President and CEO
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A one-year grant, approved in 2011, for staff salaries and materials for a program for autistic children in Spanish-speaking families in North Philadelphia.
Bernadette McNulty, PhD, Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations |
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| Family Services of Westchester |
 $55,000
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Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services |
 $75,000
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| A one-year grant, approved in 2010, for funds to replace two vans used by Camp Success to transport emotionally disturbed campers to swimming pools, amusement parks, beaches, bowling alleys, parks, and skating rinks.
Lynn Green, VP, Development and External Affairs |
A two-year grant of $150,000, approved in 2011, for four milieu workers for emotionally disturbed and substance abusing young people at an alternative high school and clinic in Brooklyn.
David Salsberg, Director of Foundations and Grants |
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| Maternity Care Coalition |
$75,000
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Montefiore Medical Center |
 $65,000
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| A one-year grant, approved in 2010, for a mental-health coordinator to improve access to treatment for low-income women with perinatal depression and to advocate for them.
Joanne Fischer, Executive Director |
A two-year grant of $130,000, approved in 2010, for the social worker in the school-based health center who would expand mental-health services for students at the Herbert Lehman High School in the Bronx.
Steven Safyer, MD, President and CEO |
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| Montgomery Early Learning Centers/Day Care Association of Montgomery Co. |
$65,000
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New York Foundling |
$50,000
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| A two-year grant of $130,000, approved in 2011, for salary support of an MSW to establish, implement, and model behavior management plans and interventions for special needs children with emotional disturbance by training teachers, families, and outside providers.
Steve Peura, COO |
A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2010, for continued support of the therapists counseling young mothers (both birth and foster care) so that they learn to nurture their infant or toddler and therefore keep the child in the family.
Mel Schneiderman, PhD, Director of Mental Health |
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| Northside Center for Child Development |
$50,000
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Philadelphia FIGHT/Youth Health Empowerment Project |
 $40,000
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| A one-year grant, approved in 2011, for the Home-Bound Crisis Intervention Program which provides short, intensive services to a family where the child is in psychiatric crisis.
Thelma Dye, PhD, Executive Director and CEO |
A three-year grant of $120,000, approved in 2009, for treatment of emotionally disturbed young people traumatized by drug use, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, abuse, violence, homelessness, and poverty.
Katie Dunphy, Director of Y-HEP |
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| St. Christopher’s |
$50,000
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St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center
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 $50,000
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| A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2010, for a consultant to train staff in technology-assisted teaching and learning, which is adapted for students with autism spectrum disorders in a special education school.
Dr. Robert Maher, Executive Director |
 A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2011, for developing and implementing the treatment of adolescents and young people with early-phase schizophrenia.
Michael Birnbaum, MD |
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| Visiting Nurse Service |
$25,000
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West Bergen Mental Healthcare |
$46,000
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| A one-year grant, approved in 2011, towards the salary of the psychiatric social worker in The Nurse/Family Partnership serving low-income, first-time mothers in the Bronx.
Carol Odnoha, Director of NFP |
A two-year grant of $92,000, approved in 2010, for support of the Anxiety Treatment Program for children and adolescents and their families.
Philip Wilson, Chairman |
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