This is a 100% volunteer organization. Your gifts and donations are being put to work to efficiently fund the mission of mental healthiness.
Grants of $122,000 were awarded to Chicago-area not-for-profits addressing mental health and suicide prevention for teens and young adults, especially those at-risk and without resources to get needed mental health support.
Here’s a snapshot of the programs at our four grant recipients:
• Barrington Youth and Family Services - Drop-in counseling is being expanded to the middle schools to help students develop coping skills earlier. Our funds are also assisting to bring a new counseling program to Harper College, including a bilingual counselor.
• Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute - We are funding a mental health program for young children dealing with grief caused by trauma - whether it be a death, loss of stability, family separation or other struggles.
• Partners for Our Communities, Skyward Bound Program - Our grant continues to provide 250 hours of clinical therapy and mental health services for students ages 14-22 at high-risk for suicide.
• St. Anthony’s Hospital - We support a School-based Mental Health Program (SMHP). Counseling is in place in six underserved partner schools in downtown Chicago, providing on-site individual therapy for children, plus crisis interventions when needed. PATH Program, which we also support, is a new pediatric and adolescent stand-alone clinic.
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