2019 Mental Health Program Grants
Grants paid during 2019
Including Payment for Grants Awarded in Prior Years
AFTER INNOCENCE $20,000
OAKLAND, CA
One-time grant to provide effective, efficient re-entry assistance to exonerees (America’s wrongfully convicted). Capacities will be developed to address the mental health needs of exonerees, particularly focusing on services to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Best practices and a treatment framework will be developed and disseminated to practitioners in the field.
(Second payment of a $55.0 grant)
CHILD HELP PARTNERSHIP $15,000
Fiscal Agent: St. John’s University
QUEENS, NY
One-time grant to create the National Consortium of Evidence-Based Child Trauma Centers. The Consortium will increase the availability of proven treatments to children exposed to trauma by enlisting psychology training clinics across the country to replicate the Child HELP Partnership program, which provides evidence-based mental health treatment and prevention of childhood trauma to underserved communities while also offering intensive training on state-of-the-art interventions to graduate student clinicians.
(Second payment of a $50.0 grant)
Institute for the Development of Human Arts $25,000
Fiscal Agent: FJC
New York, NY
Seed funding for this initiative (led by those who receive or have received mental health services, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinicians) to develop organizational capacity to bring their pilot efforts to expand the availability of alternative treatments through training opportunities, community events, and a national communications and outreach effort, to a national audience.
(Second payment of a $70.0 grant)
Ostara Initiative $25,000
Minneapolis, MN
A seed grant to build capacity to expand its work to improve the conditions of confinement for incarcerated pregnant women and mothers across the country in order to prevent/reduce lasting mental health issues in both the mothers and their children. Work includes elevating the issue of maternal mental health care for incarcerated women in the U.S. through a comprehensive marketing strategy; increase the number of incarcerated women and mothers who have direct access to evidence-based trauma-informed mental health care; and share and refine best practices for serving the needs of this at-risk population.
(Second payment of a $75.0 grant)