The Trustees of the Foley Hoag Foundation have awarded grants totaling $106,000 to 12 organizations as part of this summer’s special Youth Behavioral Health Grant Round. This continues the efforts started with our 2020 Racial Justice Grant Round to choose a specific issue of increased need to focus our grant making efforts and better leverage our impact.
The special grantees are as follows:
BOSTON
2nd Act — to increase the number of Social-Emotional Learning workshops offered in Greater Boston, prioritizing Title I schools and organizations working with underserved youth.
Boston Raising Powerful Musicians — to launch a school vacation camp pilot program for girls and gender-expansive youth to explore making music, band formation, self-care, and gender-justice.
Express Yourself — to support in-studio immersive arts programming for youth and a residential treatment program specifically for youth with identified mental health and behavioral challenges.
Sisters Unchained — for the Transformative Leadership Program, through which young women and girls who have/had an incarcerated parent focus on inner healing, personal development, education, and organizing.
NEW YORK CITY
Chinese-American Family Alliance for Mental Health — for a storytelling workshop series to help Asian American youth cope with developmental and life stressors, including racial stressors, and improve their mental and emotional well-being.
Girl Vow — for the REAL MC (Master Class), an advanced leadership seminar for youth ambassadors to learn skills to advocate around domestic violence, prison reform, and human trafficking issues.
NYC Kids Project — in general operating support to support teaching artists in bolstering students’ mental and behavioral health through puppetry, theatre, and facilitated dialogue.
Young Masterminds Initiative — for the Camping to Connect program, which integrates therapeutic practices with recreational activities to foster healing and growth for children
WASHINGTON, D.C.
BEST Kids — in general operating support for its year-round mentorship program, which aids foster and at-risk youth with personal development, including social-emotional functioning.
Grassroots Health — to recruit, train, and place new college athlete mental health promoters at high-need middle schools.
Our Minds Matter — to recruit student leaders and staff sponsors in three additional middle schools to experience and share the learnings of an evidence-informed suicide prevention curriculum.
Peace of Mind — to train educators to deliver its innovative mindfulness, brain science, conflict resolution, and social justice curriculum to students in schools.
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