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Grant
applications are accepted on an on-going
basis throughout the year. Please note
that the review process can take a few
months. Prior to submitting a full grant
request, a letter of inquiry can be
sent. Organizations applying for funding
must be classified at tax-exempt 501c
(3). Most grants are approved for a
three-year period. Indirect costs of
up to 10% will be considered. In reviewing
grant requests, an important consideration
is the sustainability of the grant after
funding ends.
Recent Grant Funded in New Orleans
The FAR Fund Project is a New Orleans-based
program exploring Hurricane Katrina's
effects on New Orleans therapists and
therapeutic practice. It was designed
by and for clinicians.
The project's mission is two-fold: to
offer support and concrete help to local
clinicians, and to develop a model for
better understanding how shared trauma
affects therapists and therapy.
For more information, contact Kathryn
Nathan, PhD/Clinician Grant Coordinator
at:
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic
Center
3624 Coliseum Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
Phone: (504) 899-5815.
Website: www.farfundprojectnola.com
Free Lecture - Dr. Ghislaine Boulanger,
"I Don't Want This Knowledge: Understanding
the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on
Therapists and Therapy in New Orleans."
Thursday, Feb 5, 2009 Workshop 1 - Dr.
Ghislaine Boulanger, "Let's Talk About
It: Survivor Therapists Working with
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina." Friday,
February 6, 2009. Workshop 2 - Dr. Ghislaine
Boulanger, "The Strength Found in Innocence:
Resistance to Working with Adult Onset
Trauma." Saturday, February 7, 2009.
RECENT GRANTS
The Fostering Connection (TFC)
Karen Mahler, Psy.D
511 Avenue of the Americas, #200
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-255-8895
Website: www.thefosteringconection.org
Project Title: Outreach Initiative &
Consultation Initiative The Fostering
Connection aims to provide pro-bono
long-term, high-quality psychodynamically
oriented psychotherapy to children,
youth and families affected by foster
care. The underlying belief is that
foster-involved individuals benefit
from reliable, consistent therapy from
a professionally trained and supportive
therapist. A grant from The FAR Fund
will support the Outreach Initiative,
allowing qualified therapists in the
NYC outer-boroughs to be identified
and integrated. The FAR Fund grant will
additionally support the Consultation
Initiative, a program that brings TFC’s
consultation support model to therapists
in agency settings.
Association to Benefit Children
(ABC)
GretchenBuchenholz, Executive Director
419 E 86th Street
New York, NY 10028
Phone: 212-845-3828
Website: www.a-b-c.org
Project Title: Families Lead Our Way
(FLOW) The Association to Benefit Children
is a New York City based organization
that has supported vulnerable children
and families among distressed communities
for over two decades. A FAR Fund grant
will enable ABC to establish a pilot
project, FLOW, with the mission of supporting
families of children with an inclusive
range of developmental disabilities.
FLOW is an information and support center
in East Harlem specifically designed
to assist and empower parents of children
with developmental disabilities through
the complex process of accessing appropriate
services for their children so that
they can become more confident advocates.
This pilot project also focuses on making
resources and expertise available to
the community experts who are teaching
and serving children with disabilities.
The FLOW team includes an early childhood
development specialist/special educator,
a psychologist, and a parent advocate.
Easter Seals Child Development
Center
John McGrath, VP
2433 East Tremont Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: 917-882-6460
Website: www.eastersealsny.org
Project Title: Family Outreach Program
Easter Seals Child Development Center
of the Bronx, New York has provided
for the needs of children with Autism
Spectrum Disorders, Down syndrome, and
other developmental or physical disabilities
for over twenty-three years. They offer
cognitive, speech, social-emotional,
and motor skill education and support
for those with socioeconomic challenges.
A grant from The FAR Fund will extend
and increase efficiency of these services
through hiring of a part-time social
worker and a part-time nurse for a family
outreach program. A focus of the outreach
program will be a support group for
parents lead by a social worker to encourage
successful guidance through early education.
A nurse will provide participating families
with healthcare workshops and first
aid care for children. The program will
allow the children fuller, richer lives
by improving developmental outcomes,
early detection of disabilities, and
medical treatment. A decrease in emergency
room visits and referrals to Child Protection
Services is also expected.
Doctoral Program in Clinical
Psychology Elliot
L. Jurist, Ph.D., Subprogram Head
City University of New York North Academic
Center
New York, NY 10031
Phone: 212-650-5676
Website: www.gc.cuny.edu
The doctoral program in clinical psychology
at City College is a sought-after and
highly prestigious program that emphasizes
understanding human behavior as a complex
and multi-determined phenomena that
simultaneously influences a range of
intrapsychic, developmental, system,
behavioral, biological, and cultural
variables. The FAR Fund provides ongoing
support for the CUNY program, allowing
for student clinical work, community
projects, and lectures from diverse
experts. The FAR Fund grant will help
to allow the CUNY doctoral program in
clinical psychology to continue to train
students in contemporary psychodynamic
perspectives. The support will allow
for clinical fellowships, follow-up
student research, a distinguished lecturer
series, adjunct faculty, dissertation
fellowships, and community outreach
fellowships.
State University of New York
Lauren Greiner, Ph.D.
Purchase College Purchase, NY 10577
Phone: 914-251-6390
Email: Lauren.Greiner@Purchase.edu
Asperger’s Syndrome: College and Beyond:
Preparing for the Future Purchase College
has hosted a Supported Education program
in collaboration with the Office of
Mental Health and the Guidance Center
of New Rochelle for the past fifteen
years. The program helps students with
psychiatric and developmental disabilities
navigate college. The number of students
arriving on campus with Asperger’s Syndrome
Disorder (ASD) has recently been too
great for the program to accommodate.
A four-year grant from The FAR Fund
will allow for Purchase College to expand
their program and specifically meet
the needs of students with ASD. There
is a weekly support group and student
mentors provide ongoing services. In
addition, there is a strong focus on
developing meaningful internship opportunities.
This program is in collaboration with
the college’s offices of Counseling
and Career Development. This support
will further allow students with Asperger’s
Syndrome to be successful in college
and prepared to enter the job market
in professional positions.
Dept of Special Education/Hunter College
Shirley Cohen, Ph.D.
Hunter College
New York City, NY
Phone: 212-772-4708
Email: cohenshirley@hunter.cuny.edu
Developing Leaders for Intervention
in Autism Spectrum Disorders The Department
of Special Education at Hunter College
seeks to create a small cadre of young
professionals in the field of autism
spectrum disorders (ASD) who will be
knowledgeable about a diverse range
of autism intervention approaches. This
program is a response to the increasing
occurrence of ASD and the need to develop
expertise in a variety of intervention
models. Support from The FAR Fund will
allow for five to seven experienced
Fellows to strengthen certain intervention
areas while performing intensive research.
This support will provide for faculty
presentations, graduate student assistance,
and stipends. It is expected that these
Fellows will further their expertise
and produce research and periodical
publications, as well as serve as the
leaders in the field.
New Orleans-Birm Psychoanalytic Ctr
(NOBPC)
Kathryn Nathan, Ph.D.
3624 Coliseum Street
New Orleans, LA
Phone: 505-899-5815
Website: www.farfundprojectnola.com
The FAR Fund Project - Supporting Psychotherapists
after Katrina: This project is a New
Orleans-based program exploring Hurricane
Katrina’s effects on New Orleans therapists.
It was designed by and for clinicians.
The complex aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
has provided New Orleans therapists
with the difficult task of addressing
a mental health crisis while simultaneously
living it. This grant looks to support
and offer concrete help to the local
mental health clinicians of all disciplines
and theoretical orientations, as well
as to develop a psychodynamic model
to better understand how shared trauma
affects therapists and therapy. The
FAR Fund Project is sponsored by the
New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic
Center. One of the experts involved
in this project, Ghislaine Boulanger,
Ph.D., is a leading researcher in long-term
consequences of adult onset psychological
trauma.
City Access New York
Ken Struve, Executive Director
1207 Castleton Avenue
SI, NY 10310
Phone: 718-285-6548
Website: www.cityaccessny.org
Person-Centered Planning for Individuals
with Autism Spectrum Disorders City
Access New York (CANY) seeks to provide
a mix of services for individuals with
ASD as well as their families and caregivers.
A focus of CANY is the challenging transition
for individuals with ASD between the
securities of public school services
to the uncertainty of adult services.
A grant from The FAR Fund will help
to pilot Person-Centered Planning (PCP)
for Individuals with Autism Spectrum
Disorders, a program that will serve
fifteen students with ASD and their
families each year. The program aims
to coordinate transition out of high
school to Medicaid service, provide
counseling and speech therapy, and host
quarterly educational luncheons. The
PCP program is expected to result in
greater successes among recent students
with ASD and to benefit caregivers with
therapy and strategies.
The Early Childhood Center
Marian Silverman, Psy.D.
Rose F. Kennedy University Center for
Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1731 Semihole Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: 718-430-8900
The Early Childhood Center has developed
the Therapeutic Visiting Program in
a strong collaboration with the NYC
Administration for Children’s Services
and other agencies. Among the goals
of this program, they recognize the
importance of early intervention for
successful reunification with birth
parents. A grant from The FAR Fund will
allow The Early Childhood Center to
promote and support the process of reunification
and expedite permanency planning through
several approaches. They include Parent-Child
Psychotherapy, Interaction Guidance,
Home Visit Coaching, and the Nurturing
Parenting Program. Through the comprehensive
services of the Therapeutic Visiting
Program, it is expected that the rate
of foster care reentry after reunification
will decline at each age group.
Job Path, Inc.
Fredda Rosen, Executive Director
22 West 38th Street
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-944-0546
Website: www.jobpathnyc.org
Life Coaching for Young People with
Asperger’s Syndrome: Job Path is a dedicated
organization founded on the understanding
that everyone has the right to make
decisions about his or her own life.
They support and encourage young people
with developmental disabilities to explore
what they want out of life and chart
their own journeys. In 2006, The FAR
Fund supported Job Path in the launch
of a pilot program, Life Coaching for
Young Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome.
The program was created with the desire
to assist people with Asperger’s Syndrome
in future planning, with the goal of
self-sufficient living. Through coaching
and support, young adults with Asperger’s
Syndrome have been placed in desired
jobs, and are living more independent
and satisfying lives. Others have entered
college programs. The second phase of
the program seeks to help individuals
with ASD to establish eligibility for
services from OMRDD. This project is
underway, with clinicians participating
in the education of OMRDD staff about
Asperger’s Syndrome.
InterRelations Collaborative,
Inc. (IRC)
Grace Yun, Ph.D., Director
P.O. Box 6280
Hamden, CT 06517
Phone: 203-624-2454
Website: www.inter-relations.org
The PeaceMaking Exhibit and Video Project:
Following the events of September 11,
2001, IRC formed the PeaceMaking Initiative,
a preventative project with a focus
on ethnic intolerance. Part I of the
project was a book titled What Will
You Do For Peace? Impact of 9/11 on
New York City Youth. The book was authored
by young people from diverse communities
across NYC and acclaimed Harlem artist
Faith Ringgold; it documented their
experiences on that day. Part II of
the project consisted of a Peace Quilt
inspired by the book. The quilt has
been on display at numerous conferences,
events, and exhibits in NYC. A grant
from The FAR Fund will allow for the
upgrade of a video about the project
to professional quality for use in the
NYC public schools. It is expected that
students in conflict-prevention programs,
schools around the country, and universities
will benefit from the PeaceMaking Initiative
through this multimedia format.
Self-Advocates of SE Bronx Neighborhood
Centers
Diane M. Herbert, Associate Exec Dir
Southeast Bronx Neighborhood Centers
Inc.
3289 3rd Avenue
Bronx, NY 10456
Phone: 718-665-4709
The Self-Advocates of Southeast Bronx
Neighborhood Centers are a group of
developmentally disabled adults who
attend one or more programs under the
auspices of Southeast Bronx Neighborhood
Centers (SEBNC). The Self-Advocates
is recognized as an integral but independent
entity of SEBNC, and continues to advocate
periodic programmatic changes. With
a grant from The FAR Fund, and donated
training, the Self-Advocates will start
a community vegetable garden in a vacant
lot owned by SEBNC. Through the garden
project the Self-Advocates seek to transform
the vacant lots into community green
spaces while distributing produce to
housing developments and daycare centers.
The Self-Advocates are enthusiastic
about using the garden project to give
back to a larger segment of the community,
while educating and interacting with
mainstream and developmentally disabled
residents.
The Children’s Aid Society
Patricia M. Grayson, Assistant Executive
Director
130 E. 101 Street
New York, NY 10029
Phone: 212-949-4932
Website: www.childrensaidsociety.org
Project Title: My Baby and Me (Mí bebé
y yo) The Children’s Aid Society is
a long-standing institution that serves
the needs of New York City’s most vulnerable
children and families. Through social
work, interventions, and programs at
numerous community centers and schools,
Children’s Aid seeks to ensure the city’s
most vulnerable children have the support
needed to become happy, healthy, and
successful adults. At the East Harlem
Center the Head Start program has been
well utilized in the cognitive development
of three to five year olds. Similar
development programs have been shown
to be greatly beneficial for families
of infants as well. With support from
The FAR Fund, the Children’s Aid East
Harlem Center will launch My Baby and
Me (Mí bebé y yo), a first step towards
a holistic, relationship-based age zero
to five program. During the inaugural
year, twenty families will be invited
to participate in weekly group parent-child
socialization sessions, as well as monthly
home-based visits. It is expected that
this program will result in deepening
and reinforcing of the parent-child
relationship, while encouraging family
bonds with classmates and staff.
JCC Therapeutic Nursery
Lois Mendelson, Ph.D., Director
411 E Clinton Ave.
Tenafly, NJ 07670
Phone: 201-569-7900
Website: www.jccotp.org
Established in 1978, the Therapeutic
Nursery now located at the Jewish Community
Center in Tenafly, is a program for
high functioning preschool children
(ages 3 -6) with developmental disabilities,
including Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD), Pervasive Developmental Disorders
(PSD), communicating disorders, and
emotional problems. The program is founded
on a collaborative process that includes
parents being at the school with their
child on a daily basis. The program
addresses not only behavioral, language
and cognitive development, but also
focuses on play and socialization; verbal
and non-verbal communication; and emotional
and behavioral regulation.
Yale University Child Study
Center, School of Nursing, & Fair Haven
Community Health Center (FHCHC)
Lois S. Sadler, Ph.D., APRN, BC, PNP
Yale School of Nursing
100 Church Street
South P.O. Box 9740
New York, NY
Phone: 203-737-1497
A collaborative project among three
institutions, Minding the Baby is one
of the first Reflective Parenting programs
in the USA. The program pairs a pediatric
nurse practitioner and a clinical social
worker with at-risk, medically underserved
young families who attend the FHCHC.
Minding the Baby clinicians provide
in-home interventions from pregnancy
through the child’s second birthday.
The focus of each nurse/mental health
team is to enhance attachment relationships
by developing reflective parenting capacities,
and supporting positive parenting behaviors,
child health and safety, maternal safety,
and child development. The weekly combination
of social service and mental health
service in the mothers’ homes has had
significant positive impact on the health
and quality of life of the first 60
families enrolled in the program since
2002. A grant from The FAR Fund will
support the ongoing development and
administration of these services for
underprivileged young families.
Fund for Social Change
David Tobis, Ph.D., Executive Dir
666 Broadway, Suite 830
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-529-0110
Website: www.fundforsocialchange.org
Beginning in 2003, a collaboration between
The FAR Fund and the New York State
Office of Mental Retardation & Developmental
Disabilities (OMRDD), developed and
administered by the Fund for Social
Change has provided grants to agencies
to offer person centered services to
individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD). The seven service providers are:
Life’s WORC, The Shield, Institute for
Applied Human Dynamics, AHRC, Lifespire,
the NYC Department of Education District
75, and the Southeast Bronx Neighborhood
Centers. Agencies report enhanced quality
of life for individuals living with
ASD through individualized services
that support person-centered lives.
The last three years of the project
has focused on providing transition
planning services for adolescents on
the autistic spectrum who are transitioning
from school settings. Transition has
been a neglected in the past, and is
an important stage for leading a self-fulfilling
life. All seven agencies utilize person-centered
services. Through inter-agency mentorship
as well as continued and new efforts,
it is expected that self-fulfilling
lives for individuals with ASD will
be supported and sustained. Job Path
provided technical assistance and created
a support network for the agencies.
The Institute for Basic Research completed
an extensive evaluation of the project
and outcomes.
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