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Program Related Investments
We provide funds at below-market interest rates that can be particularly useful to start, grow, or sustain a program, or when results cannot be achieved with grant dollars alone.
Policy Meets Practice
We support local small- and mid-size organizations that are working to advance recommendations outlined in the Think Bigger Do Good Policy Series.
Participatory Funds
Our participatory funds alter traditional grantmaking by shifting power
to impacted communities to direct resources and make funding decisions.
Grantmaking
We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
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Tia Burroughs Clayton, MSS
Learning and Community Impact Consultant
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Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
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Samantha Matlin, PhD
Senior Learning & Community Impact Consultant
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Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Director of Learning & Community Impact
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Joe Pyle, MA
President
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African Women Mental Health Literacy Project
Policy Meets Practice
By addressing the dearth of culturally sensitive and language appropriate mental care and connection to care services that are available in Philadelphia, the African Women Mental Health Literacy Project will improve health and quality of life.
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The African Women Mental Health Literacy Project is a holistic health and wellness program which aims to improve the health and quality of life of low-income African and Caribbean immigrant and refugee women in the Philadelphia area by addressing the dearth of culturally sensitive and language appropriate mental care and connection to care services that are available in Philadelphia. ACANA, in partnership with the Masjid Ar Rahman will provide trauma-informed, culturally tailored and language appropriate health literacy educational services including workshops to at least 150 African refugee and new immigrant women with young children in the Philadelphia area in order to:
- Increase their knowledge and awareness of emotional and mental health well-being;
- Use information provided to promote healing and resilience and optimal quality of life in women with young children from the target communities;
- Decrease barriers to seeking help for mental health issues; and
- Through the creation, training and support for immigrant women peer educators in the community, prepare women to become future health educators/leaders in the community.
The project will focus on untreated mental health issues and challenges that are most common within these communities, such as PTSD, as well as the stressors associated with migration. The objectives are not only to assist new residents in their adjustment and resettlement, but to help them to become active participants in their new environments.