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CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED
HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Mountainside, NJ
$30,000 to expand the Hospital's neuro-rehabilitation for children with various forms of brain injures by adding a Transition Specialist to work with the Bridges Program which prepares school districts to receive these children transitioning back to their schools. The Specialist will coordinate all scheduling and logistical matters associated with each transition, while providing the emotional and psychological support for the family. The Specialist will act as a social worker during transitions to an academic institution to address any issues and to help ensure long term success for these medically fragile children.
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
Bronx, NY
$30,000 to help support a new Community Mental Health Promoter position at P.S. 55 in the Bronx. The individual will organize and increase available mental health services, establish relationships with existing school and community services, and educate parents to be more willing and active participants in their children's mental health treatment. The goal is to establish a model for successful community-based mental health interventions that can be replicated among their 12 other school health programs.
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NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN ("NAC")
New York, NY
$50,000 to provide salary support for a new Director of Nursing position, a pivotal position in the initiation of their Article 28 diagnostic and treatment clinic. The licensed clinic is a key element in their plans to create a comprehensive "Children's Center of Excellence" for children with special medical needs and their families. It is their goal to provide "one-stop shopping" for the services needed by low income families that have children with physical disabilities and/or chronic illnesses. The clinic licensure will allow for Medicaid reimbursement of medical expenses and will make it possible for NAC both to expand and to improve the services they are able to offer to client families.
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OVERLOOK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Summit, NJ
$25,000 to help support physician services in the Pediatric HealthStart Program which provides a vital community service by taking care of the preventive and disease needs of 550 medically indigent and underserved children ages birth to 21 each year. The program ensures that children receive comprehensive primary care services including preventive and sick care, outreach, financial counseling, nutritional counseling, referrals for pediatric subspecialty care, and social support services - all in one location.
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PROJECT RENEWAL
New York, NY
$50,000 to provide salary support for the Radiological Technician for their new ScanVan, the nation's first mobile mammography/radiology clinic dedicated to serving poor and homeless New Yorkers. The ScanVan will perform tuberculin skin tests and chest x-rays to screen for tuberculosis and mammograms and clinical breast exams to screen for cancer, providing preventive care for these two illnesses that disproportionately affect the poor and homeless. For all positive screenings, they will also initiate and ensure follow-up treatment.
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SANCTUARY FOR FAMILES
New York, NY
$30,000 to help expand the hours of a psychiatrist and a psychologist, part-time consultants who see clients in Manhattan, to include consultations with children in their Bronx office and transitional shelter. These services ensure that more serious mental health issues are not overlooked in child clients, and that appropriate medications, outside referrals, and other key resources are accessed quickly when necessary. Sanctuary for Families is a leading provider of integrated services for domestic violence victims and their children in New York City.
$20,000 to support a full-time children's counselor at their Bronx Community Office which serves over 750 non-shelter-resident women and children each year. Currently around 30 percent of children referred for counseling are wait-listed in an average month since they only have a part-time children's counselor on staff. A full-time counselor will enable them to address the critical needs of these children in a timely manner.
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| TOTAL HEALTH CARE GRANTS: $235,000 |
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| MEDICAL RESEARCH |
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ("CRI")
New York, NY
$50,000, the first installment of a $100,000 grant payable over 2 years, to provide support for the newly established Coordinated Cancer Initiatives ("CCI") program. The CCI applies the Institute's collaborative model of research to a number of projects aimed at developing effective immunotherapies for cancer. The overall goal is to bring together a critical mass of world-class biomedical investigators with proven expertise and complementary strengths to tackle clinically relevant questions with maximal efficiency. They believe the discovery process will be accelerated and patient benefit will be realized in the quickest manner. CCI initiatives will include melanoma, ovarian and pediatric cancers, and spontaneous cancer-resistance.
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FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS
Owings Mills, MD/New York, NY
$35,000, the final installment of a $70,000 grant payable over 2 years for support of research involving gene-based therapeutic interventions for inherited retinal diseases that affect children and young adults. Researchers at Columbia University have identified the gene which causes Stargardt Disease, a juvenile form of macular degeneration, bringing hope that a treatment will eventually be available. This grant is focused on the development of lentiviral vectors to deliver therapeutic genes to the retina. These genes show great promise in gene therapy because they can permanently integrate new genes into the DNA of the cell. The gene therapies are currently being studied in pre-clinical settings with the goal of moving them into human clinical trials as soon as possible.
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| TOTAL MEDICAL RESEARCH GRANTS: $85,000 |
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