--ITTLESON FOUNDATION-- Mental Health Grants

2009

In 2009, the Foundation limited its new grantmaking to environmental projects. Listed below are grants approved in prior years.

Barnaba Institute $15,000

Clinton, CT

One time grant to produce and disseminate a training program designed to address the unique mental health needs and concerns of the victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

(Final payment of an $70,000 grant.)

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America $15,000

New York, NY

One time grant to launch the “Community of Strength” initiative to address the issues surrounding combat-related mental health injuries for these veterans. In particular, funding would help them design, test, and replicate a chapter model to physically connect, on a geographic basis, veterans to create a peer-led “community” providing them everything from recreational activities, welcome home events, workshops, seasonal celebrations, volunteer opportunities, etc.

(Second payment of an $70,000 grant.)

Red Hook Initiative $20,000

Brooklyn, NY

One time grant to expand their “Family Institutes of Bold Hope” model in New York City and to make available to social service providers nationwide, resources, training, and technical assistance to replicate this eight session (with follow-up support) family therapeutic intervention for children with emotional and mental health challenges.

(Second payment of an $75,000 grant.)

2008

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2008

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Active Minds, Inc. $10,000

Washington, DC

To dramatically expand the network of chapters on college campuses. Having spent three years piloting, testing, and revising their model of university-sanctioned, student volunteer-driven chapters working to decrease stigma, create mental health awareness, and serve as liaison between students and the mental health community, Active Minds is now ready to grow from its pilot 50 chapters to 300 campus chapters over the next three years. On campus, the chapters provide a range of services including educational workshops for students, professional speakers, and providing links to mental health resources.

(Final payment of an $85,000 grant.)

Barnaba Institute $15,000

Clinton, CT

To produce and disseminate a training program designed to address the unique mental health needs and concerns of the victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

(Second payment of an $70,000 grant.)

Horticultural Society of New York $30,000

New York, NY

To launch their new Nonprofit Partnership for Horticultural Therapy to formalize and expand their ability to help a wide range of organizations working with the mentally and physically ill, formerly homeless, HIV+, victims of substance abuse, the elderly, at-risk juveniles and those re-entering society from incarceration, use horticultural therapy programs to address the needs of these marginalized populations.

(Final payment of an $60,000 grant.)

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America $50,000

New York, NY

One-time grant to launch the “Community of Strength” initiative to address the issues surrounding combat-related mental health injuries for these veterans. In particular, to design, test and replicate a chapter model to physically connect, on a geographic basis, veterans to create a peer-led “community” providing them everything from recreational activities, welcome home events, workshops, seasonal celebrations, volunteer opportunities, etc.

(First payment of an $70,000 grant.)

Partnership with Children $50,000

New York, NY

One-time grant to develop the Center for Capacity Building to enable the dissemination of the successful counseling and prevention care program for inner-city boys and girls, �Open Heart-Open Mind� to over 100 schools by 2012.

Red Hook Initiative $45,000

Brooklyn, NY

One-time grant to expand the Family Institutes of Bold Hope model in New York City and to make it available to social service providers nationwide, resources, training and technical assistance to replicate this eight session (with follow-up support) family therapeutic intervention for children with emotional and mental health challenges.

(First payment of an $75,000 grant.)

2007

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2007

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Active Minds, Inc. $50,000

Washington, DC

(Second payment of an $85,000 grant.)

Barnaba Institute $40,000

Clinton, CT

To produce and disseminate a training program designed to address the unique mental health needs and concerns of the victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

(First payment of an $70,000 grant.)

Horticultural Society of New York $30,000

New York, NY

(First payment of an $60,000 grant.)

Rita Project $20,000

New York, NY

To refine and replicate the Rita Project's innovative model of suicide prevention and intervention. Funding will strengthen and refine their present NYC-based program. Targeted to the �survivors of suicide,� both those who have survived the loss of a loved one and those who have attempted suicide, the model uses art therapy in a studio setting and has three program components: studio-based art therapy services for survivors, preventive art therapy workshops for at-risk groups including adolescents, and exhibitions of participants work. The grant will develop a strategy and methodology for disseminating the program nationally. The pilot-test expansion sites will most likely be in L.A. and Baltimore. By year three the Rita Project will be up and running in these three cities, additional sites for replication will be explored, and the results of the national expansion evaluated, including best practices, published.

(Final payment of a $75,000 grant.)

2006

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2006

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Active Minds, Inc. $50,000

Washington, DC

(First payment of an $85,000 grant.)

Education Development Center $10,000

Newton, MA

To launch a project to investigate, synthesize, and disseminate best practices for promoting mental wellness on college and university campuses. The project will review the current research literature on the subject, identify state and national policies and programs related to college student mental health issues, produce a report and workshop presentations, conduct a national survey of campus practices, write case studies on best practices, create a publication describing a framework and recommended strategies for improving campus mental health practices and then offer trainings at national conferences to help those involved in college mental health to address campus change.

(Final payment of an $85,000 grant.)

Herbert G. Birch Services Fund, Inc. $30,000

New York, NY

To create and disseminate the Family Camp Manual. This electronic publication, to be available in downloadable format, will capture and make available to the field, the methodology behind Birch's highly successful family camping therapeutic model. Informed by 18 years of serving families with AIDS, dealing with a full range of psycho-social issues, the manual will guide agencies considering a camp-based program or those seeking to expand existing program to serve families. The Birch Camp Family Therapy model has attracted attention from those interested in using it to serve families dealing with adoption, foster and juvenile justice systems, autism, chemical dependence, and other mental health disorders, and families in abusive domestic situations. The manual is designed to share with other agencies the methodology and systems that Birch has used from creating and training its impressive volunteer corps to protocols and procedures for managing the range of situations and issues confronted in a therapeutic family camp setting. By making the report available in downloadable format, it will be easily available to its target audience of social service agencies.

Rita Project $25,000

New York, NY

To refine and replicate the Rita Project's innovative model of suicide prevention and intervention. Funding will strengthen and refine their present NYC-based program. Targeted to the Òsurvivors of suicide,Ó both those who have survived the loss of a loved one and those who have attempted suicide, the model uses art therapy in a studio setting and has three program components: studio-based art therapy services for survivors, preventive art therapy workshops for at-risk groups including adolescents, and exhibitions of participants work. The grant will develop a strategy and methodology for disseminating the program nationally. The pilot-test expansion sites will most likely be in L.A. and Baltimore. By year three the Rita Project will be up and running in these three cities, additional sites for replication will be explored, and the results of the national expansion evaluated, including best practices, published.

(Second payment of a $75,000 grant.)

2005

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2005

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Education Development Center $35,000

Newton, MA

To launch a project to investigate, synthesize, and disseminate best practices for promoting mental wellness on college and university campuses. The project will review the current research literature on the subject, identify state and national policies and programs related to college student mental health issues, produce a report and workshop presentations, conduct a national survey of campus practices, write case studies on best practices, create a publication describing a framework and recommended strategies for improving campus mental health practices and then offer training at national conferences to help those involved in college mental health to address campus change.

(Second payment of an $85,000 grant.)

The Icarus Project of FJC $35,000

New York, NY

To refine and nationally disseminate the Icarus Project's model of peer-based mental health support groups and community outreach for youth and underserved populations. Targeting creative young-people, primarily those dealing with bipolar disorder, the Icarus Model responds to the needs of those alienated by the conventional paradigm of the mental health consumer. A pilot college support group program will be developed and expanded nationally. Materials to train outreach workers will be created and published. Awareness of the model will be promoted through speaking tours, training for group leaders, and a network of support groups. A partnership with Fountain House will further the implementation, distribution, and replication of the model.

(Second payment of a $75,000 grant.)

Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester $20,000

Manchester, NH

To develop a replicable model for integrating naturopathic medicine (also known as complimentary and alternative medicine) into the system of mental health services offered in a community mental health program. In the first year they will explore ways to engage local stakeholders (medical and counseling staffs, behavioral health providers in the area, the broader medical community such as hospitals, rehab centers, etc., schools, suppliers of products, and the general public) in advancing and using these complimentary services for mental health care. In year two, the process will be documented and a "how to" manual for other community mental health programs on how to provide these services at their centers will be created and disseminated. Data will also be assembled that can be used with insurers to promote the inclusion of naturopathic care as a covered service (this is already the case in several west coast third party plans). They will work with at least six healthcare providers to explore or implement the replication of the model.

(Final payment of a $40,000 grant.)

Rita Project $30,000

New York, NY

This grant provides funding to refine and replicate the Rita Project's innovative model of suicide prevention and intervention. Funding will be used to strengthen and refine their existing NYC-based program. Targeted to the "survivors of suicide", both those who have survived the loss of a loved one and those that have attempted suicide, this model uses art therapy in a studio setting. The three program components are studio-based art therapy services for survivors, preventative art therapy workshops for at-risk groups, including adolescents, and exhibitions of participant's work. The grant will aid the Rita Project in developing a strategy and methodology for disseminating the program nationally. The pilot expansion projects of the NYC-based program will most likely take place in L.A. and Baltimore. By year three the Rita Project will be up and running in three locations, additional sites for replication will have been explored, and the results of the national expansion will be evaluated, especially for best practices, and published.

(First payment of a $75,000 grant.)

TSUNAMI GRANTS

Asian American Federation $5,000

New York, NY

To support a need assessment project to identify the needs of members of the Asian American community in New York City impacted by the tsunami, determine if those needs are being met, and, if not, make recommendations to respond to immediate as well as longer term needs of the affected families.

Columbia University Center for Children's Mental Health $10,000

New York, NY

To support the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology to bring young clinicians to their June 2005 meeting in NYC to receive additional support, training, and materials in order to help them deliver effective programs in their home countries to their children and youth n the aftermath of the tsunami disaster.

HURRICANE KATRINA GRANTS

Save the Children $25,000

Westport, CT

To support their "Gulf Coast Relief Fund for Children." Targeted to address the emotional recovery of children after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the program provides: school-based psychosocial support; structured out-of-school-time activities; "safe spaces" allowing traumatized children for freedom to play, learn, and recover in a protected and comforting environment, and assistance to community groups in restoring services for children..

2004

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2004

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Center for Public Representation $5,000

Northampton, MA

For Emergency Rooms in Crisis: Problems, Solutions and Transformation, a system reform and education initiative on behalf of the three million individuals with psychiatric disabilities who seek help in emergency departments across the country every year. This is a collaborative project to develop best practices and raise the standards of care in emergency rooms for this population. A national panel of experts will be formed to advise on the project. A manual describing the laws, legal requirements, regulatory standards and criteria for emergency room care to people with psychiatric disabilities will be researched, written, and distributed. Promising practices at some of the more successful emergency room and crisis programs in the country will be identified, documented and promoted.

(Third payment of a $65,000 grant)

Darkness to Light $10,000

Charleston, SC

To create Darkness to Light's Online Professional Education and Credentialing Project to provide professional and volunteer staff of national and state-based youth organizations with training to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The organization will create a professionally-endorsed base curriculum, transform it into online learning modules, integrate and outsourced credentialing system, educate youth organizations about child sexual abuse and enlist support for mandating the training for their professionals and volunteers, ultimately operating the training as a self-sufficient enterprise.

(Final payment of $40,000 grant)

Education Development Center $40,000

Newton, MA

(First payment of an $85,000 grant)

The Icarus Project of FJC $45,000

Spring Glen, NY

To refine and nationally disseminate its model of peer-based mental health support groups and community outreach for youth and underserved populations. Targeting creative young-people, primarily those dealing with bipolar disorder, the Icarus Model responds to the needs of those alienated by the conventional paradigm of the mental health consumer. During the course of the grant they will develop a pilot college support group program and then expand it nationally. Materials to train outreach workers will be created and published. Awareness of the model will be promoted through speaking tours, training for group leaders, and a network of support groups. A partnership with Fountain House will further the implementation, distribution, and replication of the model.

(First payment of an $80,000 grant, $35,000 in year two is contingent)

InterVol $15,000

Rochester, NY

To support the replication of InterVol's medical waste reduction program throughout the United States. Funds will be used to create and disseminate information to recruit and train sponsors interested in operating an InterVol program in their area. InterVol's program operates in two ways: reduction of waste through education and reduction through the collection and redistribution of supplies and equipment disposed of due to regulation or obsolescence.

(Final payment of a $60,000 grant.)

Medicare Rights Center $20,000

New York, NY

In support of the Medicare Rights Center's project to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enhance access to mental health care for hundreds of thousands of underserved Americans. By addressing a series of administrative issues under the authority of CMS (the agency within the U.S. Department of health and Human Services that runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs) the Medicare Rights Center hopes to increase mental health care services for individuals with mental health care needs whose Medicare coverage provides mental health services that they do not receive.

(Final payment of a $655,000 grant.)

Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester $20,000

Manchester, NH

(First payment of a $40,000 grant.)

2003

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2003

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Brown University $250,000

Providence, RI

For the Brain Science Program at Brown University. This will establish the "Ittleson Flexible Research Fund" to facilitate new, cutting edge research that will contribute to the advancement of fields as diverse as mental health, alternative medicine, industry and education. The Fund will support undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research in brain imaging by providing resources for the operation of a Magnetic Resonance Imagining unit--the new technology that has radically altered our ability to investigate the function of the living human brain during its most fascinating operations, including thinking, speaking, understanding, remembering, and planning.

(Final payment of a $1,00,000 grant)

Center for Court Innovation
Fund for the City of New York $10,000

New York, NY

To set up, evaluate, and disseminate a new model specialized problem-solving court, the Mental Health Court. This demonstration project seeks to address the problem of mentally ill defendants cycling through the criminal justice system. The Mental Health Court will use the court's authority to link mentally ill offenders to treatment, stabilizing their illness and preventing their return to the criminal justice system. After a year of operation, the Center will convene experts for a series of discussion about mental health courts and their potential for wide-scale replication, this information will then be the basis for written products (best practices, etc.) for broad distribution in the field using the Center's extensive contacts as well as the Internet and professional and policy journals.

(Final payment of a $60,000 grant)

Center for Public Representation $10,000

Northampton, MA

For Emergency Rooms in Crisis: Problems, Solutions and Transformation, a system reform and education initiative on behalf of the three million individuals with psychiatric disabilities who seek help in emergency departments across the country every year. This is a collaborative project to develop best practices and raise the standards of care in emergency rooms for this population. A manual describing the laws, legal requirements, regulatory standards and criteria for emergency room care to people with psychiatric disabilities will be researched, written, and distributed. Promising practices at some of the more successful emergency room and crisis programs in the country will be identified, documented and promoted.

(Second payment of a $65,000 grant)

Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation $20,000

Wilmette, IL

To develop their pilot "Virtual Community Center" web site into a fully operational, highly interactive site addressing the needs of bipolar children and their families with the capacity to serve the soaring demand for information and services.

(Final payment of a $50,000 grant)

Families Involved Together, Inc. $5,000

Baltimore, MD

To refine and nationally replicate Parent Connections, their model peer support program that links specially selected and trained parents who have already raised children with serious emotional disorders to parents who have children aged 6 to 16 dealing with similar problems.

(Final payment of a $95,000 grant)

From Darkness to Light $30,000

Charleston, SC

To create Darkness to Light's Online Professional Education and Credentialing Project to provide professional and volunteer staff of national and state-based youth organizations with training to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The organization will create a professionally-endorsed base curriculum, transform it into online learning modules, develop a credentialing system, educate youth organizations about child sexual abuse and enlist support for mandating the training for their professionals and volunteers, ultimately operating the training as a self-sufficient enterprise.

(First payment of a $40,000 grant)

Generation Five $15,000

San Francisco Womens Center, Inc.
San Francisco, CA

To launch Generation Five's National Community Response Initiative, a model program to support survivors and prior offenders of child sexual abuse, affected families, professionals, government, policy makers, and activists in developing and implementing community-based model programs to prevent and reduce the impact of child sexual abuse. This grant will train 100+ leaders, develop 10-14 model local programs, and produce a training curriculum to disseminate the model.

(Final payment of a $75,000 grant)

McLean Hospital $30,000

Belmont, MA

To help disseminate RALLY (Responsive Advocacy for Life and Learning in Youth) an innovative, flexible, low-cost model for delivering preventive support and intervention services to vulnerable youth. Based on the successful piloting of the model, a Rally Demonstration site will be established to offer RALLY training to interesting schools across the nation. Training materials will be developed and training offered to other sites. During the two years, at least four new RALLY sites will be developed. A network of practitioners would be developed and certified.

(Final payment of a $80,000 grant.)

Medicare Rights Center $35,000

New York, NY

In support of the Medicare Rights Center's project to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enhance access to mental health care for hundreds of thousands of underserved Americans. By addressing a series of administrative issues under the authority of CMS (the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs) the Medicare Rights Center hopes to increase mental health care services for individuals with mental health care needs whose Medicare coverage provides mental health services that they do not receive.

(First payment of a $55,000 grant.)

Urban Justice Center $20,000

New York, NY

To launch 300,000 Mothers, a project to provide advocacy training, leadership development, and support to families of prisoners with mental illness. The project will build a network of the families of those in the criminal justice system with mental illness, provide them individualized advice and support through a national helpline, develop leadership and encourage local action, advance targeted litigation to achieve system wide change, and mobilize a national campaign for funding and laws to improve the lives of people with psychiatric disabilities in the criminal justice system.

(Final payment of a $50,000 grant)

2002

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2002

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior years

Brown University $250,000

Providence, RI

(Third payment of a $1,000,000 grant.)

Fund for the City of New York
Center for Court Innovation $20,000

New York, NY

(Second payment of a $60,000 grant)

Center for Public Representation $50,000

Northampton, MA

For Emergency Rooms in Crisis: Problems, Solutions and Transformation, a system reform and education initiative on behalf of the three million individuals with psychiatric disabilities who seek help in emergency departments across the country every year. This is a collaborative project to develop best practices and raise the standards of care in emergency rooms for this population. A manual describing the laws, legal requirements, regulatory standards and criteria for emergency room care to people with psychiatric disabilities will be researched, written, and distributed. Promising practices at some of the more successful emergency room and crisis programs in the country will be identified, documented and promoted.

(Final payment of a $65,000 grant)

Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation $30,000

Wilmette, IL

(First payment of a $50,000 grant)

Families Involved Together, Inc. $15,000

Baltimore, MD

(Second payment of a $95,000 grant)

Generation Five $60,000

San Francisco Womens Center, Inc.
San Francisco, CA

(First payment of a $75,000 grant)

McLean Hospital $50,000

Belmont, MA

To help disseminate RALLY (Responsive Advocacy for Life and Learning in Youth) an innovative, flexible, low-cost model for delivering preventive support and intervention services to vulnerable youth. Based on the successful piloting of the model, a RALLY Demonstration site will be established to offer RALLY training to interesting schools across the nation. Training materials will be developed and training offered to other sites. During the two years, at least four new RALLY sites will be developed. A network of practitioners will be developed and certified.

(First payment of a $80,000 grant.)

Urban Justice Center $30,000

New York, NY

(First payment of a $50,000 grant)

Variety Child Learning $25,000

Syosset, NY

Seed money to help put in place a national training and dissemination program to teach early childhood personnel in a proven approach that helps young children (birth to eight) with behavioral, learning, and language problems catch up with their typically developing peers.

(Final payment of a $60,000 grant)

Virginia Commonwealth University $15,000

Richmond, VA

(Final payment of an $80,000 grant.)

TOTAL PROGRAM GRANTS $905,000

2001

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2001

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior years

Brown University $250,000

Providence, RI

(Second payment of a $1,000,000 grant.)

Center for Court Innovation
Fund for the City of New York $30,000

New York, NY

(First payment of a $60,000 grant)

Center for Preventive Psychiatry $20,000

White Plains, NY

To establish the Center's Early Childhood Consultation Service (ECC) as a regional and national training and technical assistance resource. ECC works directly with early childhood centers, including Head Start programs, to provide those working in such settings and parents, interactive mental health training to further early intervention and prevention strategies.

(Final payment of a $60,000 grant)

Families Involved Together, Inc. $75,000

Baltimore, MD

(First payment of a $95,000 grant)

Harm Reduction Therapy Center
(formerly Addiction Treatment Alternatives) $20,000

San Francisco, CA

To launch the Harm Reduction Therapy Center in San Francisco, as the first clinic in this country to use Harm Reduction Psychotherapy to treat dual diagnosis (co-existing mental illness and substance abuse), document its effect, teach its methods, and serve as a national model of treatment effectively engaging this underserved dually diagnosed population. Year one of the grant is a planning phase. In year two the Center will open and an infrastructure for the provision of services and the dissemination of information will be put in place.

(Final payment of a $100,000 grant)

INCube, Inc. $15,000

New York, NY

(Final payment of a $65,000 grant.)

Variety Child Learning $35,000

New York, NY

(First payment of a $60,000 grant)

Virginia Commonwealth University $25,000

Richmond, VA

(Second payment of an $80,000 grant.)

Special One-time 9/11 Emergency Grants

Healing Works $15,000

New York, NY

To provide short-term emergency and longer-term follow-up responses to the extraordinary mental health needs created by the events of September 11, 2001.

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research $20,000

New York, NY

In support of a special training conference drawing on the expertise of analysts internationally who have had experience working in terrorized countries and with adults and children who have been traumatized or are living in traumatic situations.

New York City Police Foundation, Inc. $10,000

New York, NY

For the Heroes Fund to support the development and implementation of post-trauma education and treatment for the entire New York City Police Department.

New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund $10,000

New York, NY

To help the Counseling Service Unit provide for the mental health needs of the families of those who perished at the World Trade Center as well as the needs of the surviving members and their families.

St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York City $25,000

New York, NY

To provide emergency and on-going trauma and grief counseling for the families of those killed in the September 11, 2001 tragedy as well as to rescue workers, employees of the World Trade Center companies, paramedics, school children and personnel from schools in Lower Manhattan and in the surrounding counties where many of the deceased lived.

SoHo Partnership $1,500

New York, NY

To support the Partnership's program for the recovering homeless population in this neighborhood whose economy was devastated by the events of September 11th by providing both short-term work and a systemic training program (Project Comeback) to teach the job and life skills necessary to gain full-time employment and ultimately a permanent home.

TriBeCa Partnership $1,500

New York, NY

2000

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 2000

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior years

Addiction Treatment Alternatives $80,000

San Francisco, CA

To launch the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. The Center will be the first clinic in this country to use Harm Reduction Psycho-therapy to treat dual diagnosis (co-existing mental illness and substance abuse), document its effect, teach its methods, and serve as a national model of treatment effectively engaging this underserved dually diagnosed population.

(First payment of a $100,000 grant.)

Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture $10,000

New York, NY

To help replicate the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. The goal of this project is to expand mental health care services for immigrants and refugees who are survivors of torture and war trauma. The program builds on their successful model of culturally appropriate group therapy for Immigrant and Refugee Survivors of Torture and War trauma to: 1) train psychologists interested in treating this population, 2) adapt and replicate the model working with newly trained psychologists and community-based social service providers to design two additional therapy groups in NYC offered in community-based settings, 3) use this expanded experience to train others in New York about how to adapt and replicate the model through a one-day training with on-going consultation services providing technical assistance and 4) train service providers in cities beyond New York on how to use the model through two two-day training sessions in a least two other cities.

(Final payment of a $40,000 grant.)

La Bodega de la Familia $40,000

Vera Institute of Justice

New York, NY

To reorganize, expand, and become a new national not-for-profit known as Family Justice, Inc. dedicated to the application and dissemination of best practices in using family supports to improve the success of offenders supervised in the community, a very large percentage of which are dealing with one or more serious medical and mental health issues. Through training and technical assistance, they will advance nationally their innovative model of family-focused case management for offenders and their families, which addresses the complex intersection of mental illness, HIV/AIDS, addiction and criminal justice involvement.

Brown University $250,000

Providence, RI

The Foundation's new statement of mental health priorities speaks to "utilizing new knowledge and current technological advances to improve programs and services for people who have mental illness." This grant will make possible the increased application of one of the newest technological advances, brain imagery. The resulting new knowledge will certainly lead to improvements for those with mental illness. By directly observing brain activity, the ability to investigate how alternative methods of medicine, such as biofeedback, meditation and visualization and acupuncture work to treat disease becomes possible. In addition, a new window on how mood and behavior disorders affect the brain will be opened. This grant will help bring this new technology to Brown and insure its availability for mental health research. With its interdisciplinary Brain Science Program, Brown is poised to fully utilize brain imaging.

(First payment of a $1,000,000 grant.)

The Center for Preventive Psychiatry $40,000

White Plains, NY

(First payment of a $60,000 grant)

Compeer, Inc. $10,000

Rochester, NY

For the national dissemination of "Compeer Kids", a model mental health program for children. This program matches trained community volunteers in one-to-one mentoring relationships with children who have developed or are at risk for developing serious emotional/behavioral problems. This program was developed by the Rochester Compeer Program in 1978. Compeer itself was launched in 1973 in Rochester with its adult mentoring program. In 1982, its success established Compeer's National Office which supports the development of Compeer programs throughout the United States. The existing 120 Compeer programs in 33 states are the potential audience for replicating the Compeer Kids model. Compeer will work intensely with 15 sites to replicate the "Compeer Kids" program. The policies, procedures, manuals and training materials developed to do this will ultimately be available to each of the 120 Compeer programs across the country.

(Final payment of a $40,000 grant)

Edgewood Center for Children and Families $25,000

San Francisco, CA

To pilot, test and disseminate the Kinship Mental Health Program, a model of mental health services for children in kinship care. This program will supplement the Edgewood Center for Children and Families' successful Kinship Support Network by focusing on providing therapy, case management, and other needed services for families where children are being raised by their grandparents or other relatives. In year one the program will be piloted for severely emotionally disturbed and at-risk children in kinship care. In year two dissemination materials will be completed, information on the program disseminated nationally, and technical assistance in replicating the model will be provided to at least 8 other service providers. The program will combine comprehensive mental health services for the child with supportive services for the whole family including family therapy and case management for the whole family.

(Final payment of a $70,000 grant)

The Foundation for Integrative Medicine $20,000

Tucson, AZ

For the pilot project "Children and the Mind/Body Connection." Students will be taught such mind/body practices as mindfulness meditation and guided imagery as preventative methods for keeping stress-related and unconventional behaviors from bubbling over into violent acts. In addition parents and teachers will be taught similar techniques to practice individually and with their children. The project seeks to reduce such behaviors as acting out in anger, oppositional behavior and inattention; improve academic performance in the classroom; reduce physical stress-related symptoms in children, such as headaches and stomach aches; and improve parents' and teachers' skills in handling stress at home and in the classroom. Piloted in three elementary schools in Tucson (including disadvantaged, ethnically diverse, and high achiever students), the project will be evaluated and the results shared nationally through conferences, publications, and the media. Possible sites for replication across the country will also be identified.

(Final payment of a $55,000 grant.)

Herbert G. Birch Services $5,000

New York, NY

To develop a new innovative model parent training program for parents of children with disabilities. Parents and professionals will collaborate to define strategies that support familial relationships while still encouraging skill acquisition for the child. Together, parents and professionals will design and implement individualized interventions customized to the needs of the family's situation. The program will first be implemented with parents of children with autism and then expanded to include parents with children with profound mental retardation. Parents will participate in a psychoeducational parent support group. Training sessions will introduce them to various intervention strategies. In collaboration with professionals, they will design and implement an intervention for their family with ongoing support from staff. A Parent Training Program handbook/manual will be developed, published and distributed. Results will be shared with national parent organizations and at professional conferences.

(Final payment of a $45,000 grant.)

INCube, Inc. $50,000

New York, NY

To launch their "Train-the-Trainer" program which will disseminate their model program of helping people with psychiatric disabilities overcome barriers to self-sufficiency and employment through the development or incubation of small business and self-employment options. A manual, a series of training work-shops, and follow-up technical assistance will lead to the replication of their model at one consumer agency in each of 3-5 geographic locations resulting in 15-25 potential consumer businesses being created. The goal of the project is to synthesize all aspects of INCube's innovative self-employment model and ten-year track record into a formal training program which will allow local organizations serving this population to replicate the program in their communities. Once the training program has been developed and tested, it can then be used to train other agencies all across the country.

(First payment of a $65,000 grant.)

Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law $5,000

Washington, DC

To promote the use and legal enforceability of advance psychiatric directives as a new tool to assist the consumers of mental health care in the maintenance of their psychological health in the event of a relapse. Psychiatric advance directives are seen as a proactive alternative to coercive treatment. These directives allow mental health consumers to assert in advance their choice of treatments if they have a psychotic episode or when symptoms may compromise their decision-making. This approach is already widely used in Europe. The Center will work in four target states to advance the use of directives and seek to establish their enforceability on a par with living wills and the health power of attorneys. The project will: document the impact and consequence of coercive treatment; develop a definitive model psychiatric advance directive; develop models in the target states, define aspects of state laws that will ensure their enforceability, and increase awareness of this option through educational efforts.

(Final payment of a $45,000 grant.)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center $50,000

New York, NY

To support, "The Mind-Body-Spirit Program, a Holistic Model of Psychological Support for Patients with Cancer". This project will develop, test and disseminate a new model of psychological support that incorporates and unifies mind, body and spiritual approaches into standard psychiatric and psychological interventions to enhance and broaden support for patients facing the existential crisis posed by cancer and other life threatening illness. This project builds on our previous grant which created a Model Psychological Support Program for Women with Breast Cancer. The program has three components: Mind-Body-Spirit Group, the Journey to the Moment focusing on meditation and spiritual practices; the development of a Psychospiritual Psychotherapy; and the Art Psychotherapy Project. Each component will be developed, implemented and tested over the three year period. Dissemination includes a manual, a guidebook, and a workbook.

(Final payment of a $300,000 grant)

Virginia Commonwealth University $40,000

Richmond, VA

For the project, "Best practices for clinical social workers in psychopharmacotherapy." The project seeks to improve the quality of contemporary mental health practice by improving the knowledge of social workers regarding the use of psychiatric medication. Based on real-life experiences of social workers, physicians and clients with respect to psychiatric medication and collaboration, which will be gathered through focus groups and a national survey the project will develop and disseminate "best practices" related to clinical practice and psychopharmacology. Dissemination will occur through regional trainings, a national conference, publications, and consultation with four schools of social work to integrate best practices into their training curriculum for social workers. The ambitious mission of the project is to change contemporary social work practice related to the use of psychiatric medication.

(First payment of an $80,000 grant.)

1999

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 1999

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior years

Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture $30,000

New York, NY

(First payment of a $40,000 grant)

Compeer, Inc.$30,000

Rochester, NY

(First payment of a $40,000 grant)

Edgewood Center for Children and Families $45,000

San Francisco, CA

(First payment of a $70,000 grant)

The Foundation for Integrative Medicine $35,000

Tucson, AZ

(First payment of a $55,000 grant)

Herbert G. Birch Services $15,000

New York, NY

To develop a new innovative model parent training program for parents of children with disabilities. Parents and professionals will collaborate to define strategies that support familial relationships while still encouraging skill acquisition for the child. Together, parents and professionals will design and implement individualized interventions customized to the needs of the family's situation. The program will first be implemented with parents of children with autism and then expanded to include parents with children with profound mental retardation. Parents will participate in a psychoeducational parent support group. Training sessions will introduce them to various intervention strategies. In collaboration with professionals,they will design and implement an intervention for their family with ongoing support from staff. A Parent training Program handbook/manual will be developed, published and distributed. Results will be shared with national parent organizations and at professional conferences.

(Second payment of a $45,000 grant)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center $100,000

New York, NY

(Second payment of a $300,000 grant)

Project Yes $35,000

Coral Gables, FL

To replicate Project YES Safe Schools, Healthy Families Initiative, a model training for high school faculty and staff, to improve the health and safety of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. For three years Project YES has been conducting training in the Miami-Dade Public Schools. It now proposes to replicate its proven training model in three school districts in three cities representing diverse demographics and cultural factors. Project YES will conduct trainings at those sites, create and disseminate a training package for the schools including a video and manual, and then provide intensive planning, coaching, implementation and follow-up assistance to the three sites. Through the grant, 240 educators in 12 schools in three school districts will be trained. These educators will then share their new knowledge with the entire faculty of their schools. The training materials created through the grant will ultimately allow the program to be brought to many other school districts across the country.

Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League $30,000

Washington, DC

Seed money to launch its model Virtual Youth Center Mental Health Project to serve the needs of lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, or questioning youth. Using trained peer counselors, young people unable or unwilling (due to lack of transportation or fearful of revealing their orientation) will be able to access the on-line support groups and gain much-needed support, information, and when needed, crisis service. All aspects of the development, training, and operation of the groups will be under the direction of a licensed social worker. This carefully-monitored, professionally-overseen on-line peer support group model could be applicable to other at-risk groups who must cope with shame and stigma such as rape and incest survivors, family members of alcoholics, and victims of domestic violence. It is felt, that if successful, this groundbreaking approach could revolutionize mental health services.

(First payment of a $50,000 grant)

The Research Foundation of State University of New York $29,000

University at Buffalo

A court-related pilot project to address the mental health needs of children in divorcing/separating families: PACT (The Parents and Children in Transition Program). This innovative preventive program, being developed in partnership between the University at Buffalo and the Supreme and Family Courts in Erie County, NY, is designed to decrease mental health problems experienced by children in the context of parental divorce/separation. This project will: develop and implement a psycho-educational group intervention that will provide children whose parents are divorcing/separating support, education and coping skills; developing a detailed intervention manual to facilitate replication; and work to secure longer-term funding to evaluate and expand the program. The intervention will take the form of two, two-hour group sessions with both a children and parents group. Workshops to Administrative Judges,who can implement the program through administrative order, will help replicate the program across New York State and beyond.

1998

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 1998

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior years

Bazelon Center for Mental Health $30,000

Washington, DC

(First payment of a $45,000 grant.)

Herbert G. Birch Services $25,000

New York, NY

(First payment of a $45,000 grant.)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center $150,000

New York, NY

To support, "The Mind-Body-Spirit Program, a Holistic Model of Psychological Support for Patients with Cancer". This project will develop, test and disseminate a new model of psychological support that incorporates and unifies mind, body and spiritual approaches into standard psychiatric and psychological interventions to enhance and broaden support for patients facing the existential crisis posed by cancer and other life threatening illness. The program has three components: Mind-Body-Spirit Group, the Journey to the Moment , focusing on meditation and spiritual practices; the development of a Psychospiritual Psychotherapy; and the Art Psychotherapy Project. Each component will be developed, implemented and tested over the three-year period.

(First payment of a $300,000 grant.)

Personality Disorders Foundation $30,000

New York, NY

For the start-up of the Personality Disorders Foundation. The mission of this new national organization is to: attain significant progress in the research and treatment of severe personality disorders; advocate for policies and funding necessary to achieve these advances; and to gain national exposure aimed at educating the public about, and destigmatizing the diagnosis of personality disorders. During this period the group will build a sound infrastructure and develop its organizational capacity.

Project Renewal $25,000

New York, NY

To support the planning phase of development to launch a model Crisis Residence in New York City to provide emergency psychiatric and medical care to patients suffering acute episodes of mental illness. This grant would match an existing grant and provide complete funding for designing and planning the Crisis Residence. This planning phase will provide a plan of operation, a research design to document the effectiveness of the Residence and will enlist additional research partners. In addition, funding sources will be identified and applications for implementing the Crisis Residence and research study will be submitted and a timeline and budget for all aspects of the project will be completed.

The Samaritans $20,000

New York, NY

For the pilot project: "Preventing Adolescent Suicide Through Public Awareness Education". The project will design a prototype model suicide awareness and prevention education program with related training and skills materials. It will be piloted in the NYC public schools and replicated in several other major cities. The program will teach those who oversee the behavior, care and education of adolescents (teachers, guidance counselors, etc.) effective suicide prevention practices and instruct them on how to teach suicide prevention awareness to students. The suicide prevention material, and the "train-the-trainer" approach, suggest that this pilot could become an effective and practical national model.

(Final payment of a $50,000 grant.)

STOP IT NOW! $10,000

Haydenville, MA

To finalize STOP IT NOW'S! pilot program to prevent child abuse and to demonstrate this model program in two additional sites. STOP IT NOW! seeks to prevent child sexual abuse by focusing on adults: encouraging them to stop, report the abuse, and get treatment. Their pilot project in Vermont uses a public health approach including media efforts, a major educational outreach campaign targeting abusers and those who know them, and a phone helpline.

(Final payment of a $30,000 grant.)

1997

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 1997

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior years

The Center for Children and Families, Inc. $25,000

New York, NY

To support the Crisis Outreach Prevention and Education Project, a pilot effort to provide crisis intervention services and on-going treatment for homeless and street youth who are seriously emotionally disturbed. Using mental health experts and Peer Advocates, emergency services to youth in crisis will be provided on the street and at drop-in sites with youth being linked to follow-up long term mental health services.

(Final payment of a $50,000 grant.)

Empower Program, Inc. $5,000

Washington, DC

To expand and refine a model school-based violence-prevention curriculum for emotionally disabled, "at-risk" youth. Working at Mark Twain School in Maryland, a curriculum stressing self-worth, personal responsibility for behavior, communicating effectively, and developing decision-making skills will be refined as part of a comprehensive package of services to assist children identified as seriously emotionally disturbed to rejoin and contribute to their communities.

(Final payment of a $15,000 grant.)

Fountain House $35,000

New York, NY

Seed money to launch the "Model for Youth with Psychiatric Disabilities: An Innovative Program Providing Educational and Vocational Solutions." This project is designed to make the successful club house model developed by Fountain House user friendly for young adults (between the ages of 16 and 25) who have a primary presenting disability or a major illness. The program will offer a comprehensive array of integrated services. Fountain House's National Colleague Training Program will insure that this program is replicated at relevant clubhouse or community mental health center sites nationwide.

Hour Children, Inc. $10,000

Richmond Hill, NY

To launch an innovative counseling program to address the psycho-social needs of ex-offenders who are mothers and their children and families through individual and family counseling sessions in a mobile unit. By providing counseling for the children, the caregivers and the mothers, families will be assisted through the difficult transition period of a released mother's reunion with her family.

(Final payment of a $40,000 grant.)

KidsPeace $30,000

Orefield, PA

Seed money for KidsCentral, a new interactive Internet resource providing help and hope to children in need of help. Through KidsCentral, children ages 10-15 will be given the message, "You Are Not Alone" and be able to address issues ranging from peer relationships and peer pressure, family dynamics, divorce, violence, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and other health issues. The site will allow children to ask their questions and seek the information and resources they need anonymously. Written material and outreach will help promote use and awareness of the site.

Midtown Community Court-Fund for the City of New York $25,000

New York, NY

One-time grant to bring the "Paul and Lisa" model mental health program addressing the mental health needs of female prostitutes to new audiences through training, replication, and dissemination. The Paul and Lisa Model in use at the Midtown Community Court will be adapted and replicated at the new Brooklyn Drug Court and a model curriculum documenting the results will be made available to other courts and service providers.

(Final payment of a $50,000 grant.)

Montefiore Medical Center $10,000

Bronx, NY

To pilot, evaluate and disseminate the HIV Mental Health Training Project, a model to provide clinical training to psychosocial staff members of inner-city community-based organizations providing HIV-related social services (case management, counseling, etc.) using the resources of academic medical center practitioners.

(Final payment of a $35,000 grant.)

The Samaritans $30,000

New York, NY

For the pilot project, "Preventing Adolescent Suicide through Public Education", a prototype model suicide awareness and prevention education program with related training and skills materials to be piloted in the New York City public schools and then replicated in selected cities. The program will teach those who oversee the behavior, care and education of adolescents (teachers, guidance counselors, etc.) effective suicide prevention practices and instruct them on how to teach suicide prevention awareness to students.

(First payment of a $50,000 grant of which $20,000 is contingent on the raising of matching funds.)

STOP IT NOW! $20,000

Haydenville, MA

(First payment of a $30,000 grant.)

1996

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 1996

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

The Center for Children and Families, Inc. $25,000

New York, NY

One-time grant to support the Crisis Outreach Prevention and Education Project, a pilot effort to provide crisis intervention services and on-going treatment for homeless and street youth who are seriously emotionally disturbed. Using mental health experts and Peer Advocates, emergency services to youth in crisis will be provided on the street and at drop-in sites with youth being linked to follow-up long term mental health services.

(First payment of a $50,000 grant.)

Development for the Disabled, Inc. $10,000

Rapid City, SD

Support for a model project to demonstrate that the community-based housing needs of people with mental illnesses on limited incomes in rural areas can be addressed by utilizing the large stock of vacant historic structures found in many such communities.

(Final payment of a $25,000 grant.)

The Empower Program, Inc. $10,000

Washington, DC

(First payment of a $15,000 grant.)

The Harlem Family Institute $35,000

New York, NY

For the dissemination and replication of the Harlem Family Institute's model for delivering high quality, in-school, mental-health services to children and families in troubled neighborhoods through creative partnerships with psychoanalytic training institutes. In this model program, trainees from these institutes, supervised by senior analysts, provide long term, individual psychotherapy to children, and work with parents and faculty.

Hour Children, Inc. $30,000

Richmond Hill, NY

(First payment of a $40,000 grant.)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center $170,000

New York, NY

One-time grant from principal to support their model program for psychological intervention in women with breast cancer.

(Final payment of a $500,000 grant.)

Midtown Community Court-

Fund for the City of New York $25,000

New York, NY

(First payment of a $50,000 grant.)

1995

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM GRANTS

Grants Paid During 1995

Including Payments for Grants Approved in Prior Years

Development for the Disabled, Inc. $15,000

Rapid City, SD

(First payment of a two-year $25,000 grant.)

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House $5,000

New York, NY

To develop Project Crossroads, a pre-vocational training program that provides the formerly homeless, mentally ill residents of Casa Mutua, a "New York, New York" permanent residence for this population, work opportunities in their immediate community and to disseminate information on this model to others working with this population, particularly the other 49 "New York, New York" residences.

(Final payment of a $20,000 grant)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center $170,000

New York, NY

One-time grant to support their model program for psychological intervention in women with breast cancer.

(Second payment of a three-year $500,000 grant.)

Montefiore Medical Center $25,000

New York, NY

To pilot, evaluate, and disseminate the HIV Mental Health Training Project, a model to provide clinical training to psychosocial staff members of inner-city community-based organizations providing HIV-related social services (case management, counseling, etc.) using the resources of academic medical center practitioners.

(First payment of a two-year $35,000 grant.)

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill $25,000

Arlington, VA

A one-time grant to conduct a national study and produce and disseminate: Managed Car for Persons with Serious Mental Illness-A National Report Card, the first ever in-depth evaluation of managed care activities and practices in the U.S. as they affect people with severe mental illnesses.

National Center for Clinical Infant Programs $20,000

Zero to Three

Arlington, VA

To develop and publish Zero to Three: Diagnostic Classification and Intervention Casebook to improve the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of infants and young children with mental health and developmental problems.

(Final payment of a $50,000 grant.)

The Gardner Group, Inc. On-Site Academy $30,000

Gardner, MA

One-time grant to disseminate and replicate the On-Site Academy's peer-driven and clinically supported model program to assist emergency service personnel with critical incident stress (a "critical incident" being any event in the life of an emergency services provider which has unusually strong emotional impact, and jeopardizes the worker's ability to function).

Women in Need, Inc.

New York, NY

To develop and implement a research and evaluation component for a new model program providing residential educational and vocational training for homeless women with children (the Sojourner Truth Employment Project).

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