The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation

Spring Grants 2023

BROWARD & PALM BEACH COUNTIES FLORIDA

 

Achievement Centers for Children and Families

Delray Beach, FL

$50,000 for integration of education and mental health services for preschoolers in a school setting. 

 

Center for Family Services

West Palm Beach, FL

$50,000 for staff trainings.  

 

Children’s Bereavement Center

Miami, FL

$50,000 for creating a network of grief support across Broward & Palm Beach counties. 

 

Parents Information & Resource Center

Pompano Beach, FL

$50,000 for their project, English Language – Empowering Parent for Student Success. 

MAINE

 

Community Caring Collaborative

East Machias, ME

$50,000 to train a leaders of a regional behavioral health partnership how to incorporate reflective practices in their teams and develop a case management system that improve services to individuals and families.

 

Penobscot Community Health Center

Bangor, ME

$50,000 to refine the intake and referral process and streamline access to care in through a new Mental Health Access Center.

 

Wellspring Inc.

Bangor, ME

$25,000 for cultivation of emergent leadership development strategy to better deliver evidence-based practice in addiction and co-occurring mental health treatment services. 

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

 

Covenant House New Jersey

Newark, NJ

$25,000 to support the behavioral health component of a program serving homeless young adults.

Crossroads4Hope

Bedminster, NJ

$50,000 for transforming the cancer experience: integrating digital and in-person psychosocial support into healthcare institutions to reduce socio-economic disparities. 

 

Youth Consultation Services, Inc. 

Hudson County, NJ

$49,930 for improved access to early intervention care for underserved in Hudson County, NJ.

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO

 

Gerard’s House

Santa Fe, NM

$16,069 for the Pueblo Grief Support Initiative Coalition. 

 

National Latino Behavioral Health Association

Pena Blanca, NM

$50,000 for Connecting Our Voices- (community advocates/leaders, providers, cultural brokers) is a community-based workgroup (coalition) of the Strategic Prevention Framework. 

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

 

BestSelf Behavioral Health

Buffalo, NY

$25,000 for expanding their behavioral health access project. 

 

Horizon Health Services

Getsville, NY

$50,000 for a new community outreach and education program aimed at increasing awareness about behavioral health and substance use in Buffalo, NY.