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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.
Community Fund for Wellness
Our participatory grantmaking alters the traditional process of philanthropic giving by empowering service providers and community-based organizations to define the strategy around a specific issue area or population.
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.
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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Chinese Immigrant Family Wellness Initiative: Strategic Asian Wellness & Mental Health Committee
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CIFWI introduces mental and emotional health as a key component of health for the Chinese immigrant community.
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The Chinese Immigrant Families Wellness Program (CIFWI) addresses urgent mental health needs for the Chinese and Asian immigrant community. Amid the pandemic, CIFWI launched in 2020 and quickly became a vital resource to address challenges from job losses, school closures, financial insecurity, rising anti-Asian hate, and mental health stigmas. As the City’s only community-based initiative focused on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) mental health, CIFWI prioritizes anti-racism, social justice, intersectionality, and language and identity-affirming support.
CIFWI introduces mental and emotional health as a key component of health and community development. PCDC believes community is where wellness begins and wellness in turn helps build community.
CIFWI complements PCDC’s other programs to promote social equity and inclusion and to develop self efficacy in Philadelphia’s Chinese and Asian immigrant community. PCDC does so by building the capacity to address local community needs, increasing awareness of access to resources, and working with organizational and individual partners to meet people’s mental health needs where they are at.
Program Goals:
- Increase the knowledge and understanding of mental health and emotional distress.
- Improve the attitudes toward behavioral health through stigma reduction and intergenerational communication.
- Increase the healthy behaviors that support mental and emotional wellbeing.