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SUPPORTING PSYCHODYNAMIC SERVICES, TRAINING AND RESEARCH

Center for Social and Emotional Education
1841 Broadway, Suite 713
New York , NY 10023
$17,000
Contact: Sandra V. Sandy
212-707-8799
Project Title: School Safety Project
The Center for Social and Emotional Education (CSEE) is committed to foster effective, systematic social-emotional education for children, adolescents, parents and teachers through education and training, consultation, research, and creating strategic partnerships. The School Safety Program will assist schools to maintain physical, social and emotional safety with the use of psychoanalytically informed approaches. CSEE, in collaboration with health and safety agencies, will provide training workshops for teachers, administrators, counselors, parents, PTA officers and members and school safety personnel in five middle schools in the North Bronx . A grant from the FAR Fund will support the workshop component titled "Recognizing and Assisting Stressed and Traumatized Students."

Community Resource Exchange
39 Broadway, 10 th Floor
New York , NY 10006
$5,000
Contact: Nestor Vasquez
212-894-3394
Project Title: Technical Assistance for Women's Therapy Centre Institute
Community Resource Exchange (CRE) provides management assistance to encourage, facilitate and enable community-based organizations to improve their administration. With a grant from the FAR Fund, CRE will develop a fundraising strategy and help create administrative support and structure for the Women's Therapy Centre Institute.

Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology City College of CUNY
138 th Street and Convent Avenue
New York , NY 10031
$60,000
Contact: Elliot Jurist
212-260-8385
Project Title: CUNY Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology at City College (Year 3)
The Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at City College has been in the forefront of training doctoral level, psychoanalytically orientated psychologists. With support from the FAR Fund, to be matched by the University each year, the program will continue to enhance its commitment to train psychoanalytically informed clinicians by offering stipends, distinguished lecturers, community outreach opportunities, specialized course offerings and dissertation assistance.

Fostering Connection (formerly the Children's Psychotherapy Project)
P.O. Box 170189
Brooklyn , NY 11217
$25,000
Contact: Elizabeth Kandall
212-255-8895
Project Title: Fostering Connection
The Fostering Connection began in 2001 to provide high quality, consistent psychodynamic therapy to foster children in New York City . Fostering Connection is a volunteer organization in which therapist/clinicians provide therapy to one child "for as long as it takes" in hopes of providing emotional support and growth. With a grant from the FAR Fund, Fostering Connection will continue its work of providing long-term psychotherapy to foster children in New York.

Institute for Child, Adolescent & Family Studies
15 Charles Street, Suite 7 - E
New York , NY 10014
$25,000
Contact: Hillary Mayers
212-255-9677
Project Title: Chances for Children: Teen Parent-Infant Project
Founded in 1993, the Institute develops programs which will address the mental health needs of various communities. With support from the FAR Fund, the Chances for Children project will continue its work with teen mothers at various school/educational sites. The project provides child care and psycho-dynamically informed psychotherapy with the use of play therapy and video feedback. They will also research and study new ways of treating trauma and teaching teen parents to respond helpfully and protectively to their children.

Sanctuary for Families
P.O. Box 1406 Wall Street Station
New York , NY 10268
$15,000
Contact: Hilary Maddux
212-349-6009x290
Project Title: Supporting Psychodynamic Approaches in Mental Health Services
Sanctuary for Families, founded in 1984, is a multi-service agency serving victims of domestic violence. With continued support of the FAR Fund, Sanctuary for Families will expand its therapy services for victims of domestic violence from a 12-15 week model to a six-month model. Sanctuary also began the development and implementation of an evaluation tool to assess the therapy services it provides.

William Alanson White Institute Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program
20 West 74 th Street
New York , NY 10023
$37,000
Contact: Robert Gaines
212-724-0390
Project Title: Expanding Professional Development and Clinical Services with Underserved Populations
The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute (WAWI) trains doctoral level psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A FAR Fund grant will expand the Immigrant/Refugee Child Service, the Diabetes Service and implement the Autistic Spectrum Disorders Adolescent Service.

Women's Therapy Centre Institute
562 West End Avenue
New York , NY 10024
$20,000
Contact: Luise Eichenbaum
212-721-7005
Project Title: Connect and Change: Psychotherapy Project for Domestic Violence Survivors
The Women's Therapy Centre Institute (WTCI) was founded in 1981 to train psychotherapists from a feminist perspective. With support from the FAR Fund, the Connect and Change program will coordinate a network of psychotherapists in private practice to provide free psychodynamic psychotherapy to victims of domestic violence.