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Grant Recipients
Grant Recipients
Below is a partial list of recent grant awards for projects that we believe help us to meet our funding objectives.
Community Mental Health Grants
Organization: Catholic Charities of Buffalo
Project Title: Child/Adolescent Trauma Informed Training Project
Amount: $200,033 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
A comprehensive training program for clinicians and therapists that work with children and adolescents. Instruction focuses on methods for managing behavioral and emotional problems stemming from the experience of personal trauma.
Organization: Child & Family Services of Erie County
Project Title: Staff Trauma Training
Amount: $191,930 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
A two-year training program for clinicians and counselors that work with children and adolescents that have experienced trauma in their lives. Training will include a toolbox of trauma-informed therapeutic approaches that are suitable to a range of clinical settings.
Organization: Community Health Center of Cape Cod
Project Title: Family Resource Center for Behavioral Health
Amount: $275,862 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
To enhance community awareness of mental health resources and to provide expanded mental health services to children and young adults in the Upper Cape region of Cape Cod.
Organization: Family and Children's Services of Nantucket
Project Title: Project Success
Amount: $114,345 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
Funds to support the implementation of Project Success in the Nantucket High School.
Organization: Health & Education Services, Inc.
Project Title: Collaborative Problem Solving Program
Amount: $167,370 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
Funds to support the implementation of the Collaborative Problem Solving Program, a cognitive-behavioral model of intervention in five clinics within Essex County.
Organization: Kaleida Health (Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Project Title: Outcome Measurement System to Improve Mental Health Service Delivery for Children
Amount: $84,759 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Funds to support the implementation of The Partners for Change Management System in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Organization: Niagara Falls City School District
Project Title: The Primary Mental Health Project
Amount: $140,551 over three years
Year Awarded: 2006
Implementation of the Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP), a school-based early detection and intervention program designed to identify and reduce social, emotional, and behavioral problems in young children that are likely to negatively affect their adjustment to school, into three elementary schools.
Organization: Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Project Title: The Child Advocacy Center of Niagara: Clinical Training
Amount: $43,955 over three years
Year Awarded: 2006
Support to implement a training program for clinicians who work with children exposed to violence. The training objectives of the child care/teacher component of this project are to train child care workers and teachers to identify children exposed to violence; provide safe classroom environments that offer some protection against developing trauma-related mental illness and promote resiliency; and provide resources for referring children to clinical care if needed.
Organization: North Shore Medical Center - Family Resource Center
Project Title: Mindfulness-Based Reduction (MBSR) and Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT)
Amount: $23,985 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
Grant support was provided to explore the usefulness of MBSR and RPT with students attending the North Shore Recovery High School.
Organization: University Psychiatric Practice, Inc.
Project Title: Rapid Pediatric Psychiatric Consultation
Amount: $356,392 over four years
Year Awarded: 2008
Support for the Rapid Pediatric Psychiatric Consultation (RPPC) model, which promotes appropriate early intervention and treatment for children and adolescents with mental illness.
Developmental Disabilities Grants
Organization: Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center, Inc.
Project Title: Greenspan DIR/Floortime Training
Amount: $29,464
Year Awarded: 2009
To provide professional development in the Greenspan DIR/Floortime model.
Organization: Cape Cod & Islands Child Development Program, Inc.
Project Title: Professional Development for Early Intervention Service Delivery
Amount: $55,872 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Support for staff training in early intervention for autism spectrum disorders and mental health screening for children.
Organization: Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled
Project Title: Children's Admission Services
Amount: $189,071 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
This initiative involves the creation of a new position, Children's Admission Specialist, to focus on community education and early intervention for young children that may have a developmental disability. The Children's Admission Specialist will coordinate developmental testing, review eligibility for state program assistance, and link children to appropriate services.
Organization: Jericho Road Ministries
Project Title: Developmental Disabilities Expansion
Amount: $45,747 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
This initiative involves developmental testing and referral for children participating in a home-based literacy program and served by a refugee community support center. Age appropriate developmental disability screening will be conducted and children with potential disabilities will receive case management support and linkage to appropriate services.
Organization: Melmark, Inc.
Project Title: Expert Speakers Series
Amount: $33,733 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Staff development for senior and mid-level managers focusing on advances in the field that are relevant to the organization's programming.
Organization: Northshore Education Consortium
Project Title: Professional Development for Service Delivery
Amount: $88,000 over two years
Year Awarded: 2007
The Northshore Education Consortium was awarded $88,000 over two years for professional development in three service-delivery models in order to improve the quality of the services it offers to children in the Kevin O'Grady School and Kevin O'Grady Children's Center. The three models are TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped CHildren), NAPPI (Non Abusive Psychological and Physical Intervention), and Brain Gym.
Organization: People Inc.
Project Title: Expansion of the Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT)
Amount: $121,764 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Support for the expansion of the MCRT to provide services to an additional 48 families annually. The MCRT provides crisis intervention and short term support to individuals with developmental disabilities who are also experiencing a crisis situation. People Inc. and Crisis Services are collaborating partners on this project.
Organization: Professional Center for Child Development
Project Title: Staff Certifications in Assistive Technology and Equipment Loan Management
Amount: $46,470 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Support for staff to receive training and certification in Assistive Technology and training in Database Management.
Organization: Summit Educational Resources
Project Title: Summit SharePoint
Amount: $124,456 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
To develop a web-based student information management system.
Early Childhood Education Grants
Organization: Barker Central School District
Project Title: Barker Central School Summer Pre-K Program
Amount: $67,239 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
Support to implement a five-week Pre-K program in the summers of 2008, 2009 and 2010 for children entering Pre-K the following fall to increase school readiness by developing early literacy and social skills.
Organization: Beverly Children's Learning Center
Project Title: Professional Development to Improve Pre-School Instruction
Amount: $71,015 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
Support to provide improved instruction for children through the implementation of Creative Curriculum.
Organization: Community Action, Inc.
Project Title: Reading Success Project
Amount: $72,732 over three years
Year Awarded: 2006
Implementation of a Reading Success Program (RSP) using the Motheread and Storysharing curricula to improve family literacy among low-income/high-risk residents in the Seacoast Area.
Organization: Falmouth Public Schools
Project Title: Tools of the Mind: Promoting Student Self-Regulation
Amount: $50,711 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Support for the implementation of "Tools of the Mind: Promoting Student Self-Regulation" (TOM), a comprehensive, research-based curriculum in the district's preschool classrooms. The central focus of TOM is the development of cognitive and social-emotional self-regulation at the same time academic skills are taught.
Organization: Frontier Central School District
Project Title: Identifying and Addressing Pre-Kindergarten Deficiencies Through the Use of Technology
Amount: $22,719 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
Implementation of mClass:CIRCLE, a student assessment tool, in two Frontier Central School District pre-K classrooms.
Organization: Health and Education Services, Inc.
Project Title: Creative Curriculum Program
Amount: $97,762 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
Support to uniformly implement Creative Curriculum in an effort to meet the individual needs of pre-school children.
Organization: Lynn Economic Opportunity, Inc.
Project Title: Language and Literacy Development
Amount: $70,444 over two years
Year Awarded: 2006
Support for the Language and Literacy Development project. The primary goal of the project is to improve the language and literacy skills of children attending the Lynn Economic Opportunity Head Start.
Organization: Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School District
Project Title: Enhanced Early Education and Ongoing Professional Growth
Amount: $30,800 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
Funding for Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools for the expansion of its professional development opportunities for the early childhood educators and childcare providers on the Island.
Organization: Merrimack Valley YMCA
Project Title: Reading, Imagination, Music and Exercise (RIME)
Amount: $195,801 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
Support to improve school readiness by implementing assessment tools, enhancing professional development, and building a home-to-school library in three YMCA preschool programs.
Organization: Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired
Project Title: Professional Development of Teachers for the Visually Impaired
Amount: $100,000 over three years
Year Awarded: 2009
To train two special education teachers as teachers for the visually impaired (TVIs).
Organization: Pathways for Children, Inc.
Project Title: Read-with-Me eBooks
Amount: $101,694 over two years
Year Awarded: 2009
Project features implementation of a web-based early reading program and a two-year professional development initiative to strengthen teacher skills in the area of emerging literacy.
Organization: YMCA of the North Shore
Project Title: Academic Success Program
Amount: $206,010 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
Support to improve school readiness by implementing the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale and academic assessment tools in five YMCA preschool programs.
Organization: Westminster Foundation
Project Title: Pre-Kindergarten Program
Amount: $220,000 over three years
Year Awarded: 2008
To assist in the establishment of a pre-kindergarten program at the Westminster Community Charter School.
Education Grants
Organization: Lynn Public Schools
Project Title: Improving Literacy Instruction in Grades K-3
Amount: $59,291
Year Awarded: 2007
Support to implement a professional development program for teachers, grades K through 3, to provide individualized instruction to students based on results from the DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic English Literacy Skills) assessment.
Organization: Peabody Public Schools
Project Title: Transforming Literacy Instruction in Peabody's Elementary Schools
Amount: $445,100 over four years
Year Awarded: 2006
Support to transform literary instruction in its eight elementary schools by adopting the balanced literacy approach to the teaching of language and literacy.
Organization: Starpoint Central School District
Project Title: READ 180 Intervention Program
Amount: $40,450
Year Awarded: 2006
Funding for the implementation of READ 180 in the middle school.
School-Based RFP Grants
2009 Data-Driven Instruction RFP Awards
Grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Gloucester Public Schools (Gloucester, MA) - $375,000 over four and a half years
- Rockport Public Schools (Rockport, MA) - $270,971 over four years
- Summit Educational Resources (Getzville, NY) - $370,897 over four years
2009 Technology-Based Remediation RFP Awards
Grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Esperanza Academy, Inc. (Lawrence, MA) - $41,842 over two years
- Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District (Buffalo, NY) - $35,682 over two years
2008 Data-Driven Instruction RFP Awards
Grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Charter School for Applied Technologies (Buffalo, NY) - $366,795 over four years
- Danvers Public Schools (Danvers, MA) - $274,629 over three years
- Lynn Public Schools (Lynn, MA) - $375,000 over four years
2008 Technology-Based Remediation RFP Awards
Two-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- New Directions Youth & Family Services, Inc. (Lockport, NY) - $100,000
- Springville-Griffith Institute Central School District (Springville, NY) - $76,525
Community Partnerships
Organization: Good Schools for All
Project Title: Buffalo Preschool CARE (Community Action for Reading Excellence)
Amount: $396,467 over three years
Year Awarded: 2007
The Buffalo Preschool CARE (Community Action for Reading Excellence) is a partnership of Good Schools for All, the Child Care Resource Network (CCRN), Every Person Influences Children (EPIC), United Way-Success by 6, WNED-TV and Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo and Erie County
The CARE project’s goals are to:
- Increase the number of home-based childcare providers in the 14215 "literacy zone" with high quality language and literacy resources and strategies.
- Increase the number of at-risk children who are school ready in language and literacy.
- Increase the involvement of parents in specific language and literacy development activities with their children in a family literacy model.
- Create a replicable model of excellence for home childcare providers that supports the development of literacy milestones and precursors of literacy readiness for children entering Buffalo's public schools.
Organization: University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education / Buffalo Public Schools
Project Title: Greater Buffalo Education Leadership Initiative
The Tower Foundation, in partnership with the Buffalo Public Schools and the University of Buffalo Graduate School of Education, provides support for the Greater Buffalo Education Leadership Initiative.
The Leadership Initiative consists of a variety of programs and services that are designed to identify, train, and support current and future school-based leaders. The core component is the Leadership Academy which consists of three strands, one each for aspiring leaders, aspiring principals and new administrators. Each leadership strand provides a year-long experience of intensive, experiential professional development activities including a two-day retreat, formal "day session" training, selected readings, group discussions and mentorship opportunities. Approximately 20 individuals graduate from each Academy strand annually.
Evidence-Based Practice Initiatives
2008 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Children's Friend and Family Services, Inc. (Salem, MA) - $92,381
- The Incredible Years - Basic Parent Training
- Gateway-Longview, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $94,209
- The Incredible Years - Basic Parent Training
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services (Vineyard Haven, MA) - $80,000
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Boston, MA) - $68,311
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Melmark New England (Andover, MA) - $93,169
- The Incredible Years - Basic Parent Training
2007 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
Three-year grant was awarded to the following organization:
- Joan A. Male Family Support Center (Buffalo, NY) - $35,949
- Al's Pals
2006 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY (Buffalo, NY) - $98,999
- The Incredible Years-Parent Training
- Children’s Friend and Family Services (Salem, MA) - $61,291
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Compeer West, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $120,927
- Across Ages
- Gateway-Longview, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $49,733
- The Incredible Years-Small Group Treatment
- Hillside Children’s Center (Buffalo, NY) - $47,278
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- NFI Massachusetts, Inc. (Danvers, MA) - $140,000
- Multisystemic Therapy
- Pathways for Children, Inc. (Gloucester, MA) - $30,938
- Second Step
- Project Cope, Inc. (Lynn, MA) - $80,985
- Strengthening Families
2005 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Catholic Charities North - Archdiocese of Boston (Lynn, MA) - $99,986
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Child & Adolescent Treatment Services (Cheektowaga, NY) - $97,706
- Functional Family Therapy
- People Inc. (Williamsville, NY) - $84,595
- The Incredible Years Parent Training
2004 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Baker Victory Services (Lackawanna, NY) - $94,065
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Children's Friend (Salem, MA) - $122,395
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Community Action Organization of Erie County, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $71,880
- The Incredible Years-Parent Training Series
- Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $64,356
- Strengthening Families Program
- Health & Education Services, Inc. (Beverly, MA) - $134,472
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Horizon Health Services, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $111,012
- Brief Strategic Family Therapy
- Kaleida Health (Buffalo, NY) - $68,986
- Helping the Noncompliant Child
- Wellspring House, Inc. (Gloucester, MA) - $57,636
- Strengthening Families Program: 10-14
Technology Planning and Implementation Initiatives
2009 Technology Planning and Implementation RFP Awards
Grants were awarded to the following organizations:
- Family & Children's Service of Niagara (Niagara Falls, NY) - $121,359 over two years
Hopevale, Inc. (Hamburg, NY) - $29,535
Horizon Health Services (Buffalo, NY) - $42,000
League for the Handicapped, Inc. (Springville, NY) - $20,499
Northshore Education Consortium (Beverly, MA) - $48,000
Northwest Buffalo Community Health Care Center (Buffalo, NY) - $28,800
2008 Technology Planning and Implementation RFP Awards
Grants were awarded to the following organizations:
Hillside Family of Agencies, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) - $125,000
Martha's Vineyard Community Services, Inc. (Vineyard Haven, MA) - $124,068 over three years
YMCA of Cape Cod (West Barnstable, MA) - $50,000
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