Housing

ABRI/Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Institute $50,000 ACHIEVEeability
$30,000 
 A one-year grant, approved in 2011, towards a transitional supportive housing program for homeless female veterans and their young children.

Joy Kiss, RN, CADC and CEO
655 Park Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604

 A two-year grant of $60,000, approved in 2010, counseling formerly homeless, low-income, single parent families in the Family Self-Sufficiency Program.

Marcus Allen, CEO
21 South 61st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19139

Concern for Independent Living
$25,000
Hoboken Shelter/Communities of Faith for Housing
$10,000 
 A two-year grant of $50,000, approved in 2010, for a life skills counselor, in a newly constructed supportive housing site for the mentally ill in Brooklyn, to help the tenants adjust to community living.

Ralph Fasano, Executive Director
312 Expressway Drive South
Medford, NY 11763

A two-year grant of $20,000, approved in 2010, for the consulting psychiatrist who would treat the mentally ill, substance abusing stayers in the shelter.

Jaclyn Cherubini, Executive Director
300 Bloomfield Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
$50,000
Pathways to Housing
$50,000 
A two-year grant of $100,000, approved in 2010, for a case manager, working with the agency’s legal department, to prevent eviction and homelessness among clients with mental illness and substance abuse, who are often elderly.

Barbara Lowry, Executive Director
76 Wadsworth Avenue
New York, NY 10033

A one-year grant, approved in 2010, for a part-time nurse practitioner to provide primary health care services to mentally ill participants in two Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams.

Sam Tsemberis, PhD, Founder and CEO
55 West 125th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10027

Project H.O.M.E.
$25,000
 University of Pennsylvania/Psychiatry
$54,000
A two-year grant of $50,000, approved in 2010, for continued support of Women of Change, transitional supportive housing for mentally ill women, coming from the streets, often dually diagnosed with substance abuse.

Sister Mary Scullion, Executive Director
1515 Fairmount Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130

 A one-year grant, approved in 2011, for intensive training of case managers at three safe havens, which are low-demand shelters for the mentally-ill substance abusing homeless, in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Aaron Beck, MD, University Professor
3535 Market Street, Room 2032
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309