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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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Our participatory funds alter traditional grantmaking by shifting power
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We build public and private partnerships to administer grant dollars toward targeted programs.

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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.

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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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Vivian Figueredo, MPA
Learning and Community Impact Consultant

Derrick M. Gordon, PhD
Learning and Community Impact Consultant

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Georgia Kioukis, PhD
Learning and Community Impact Consultant

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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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Nadia Ward, MEd, PhD
Learning and Community Impact Consultant

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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact

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Hitomi Yoshida, MSEd
Graduate Fellow

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Ashley Feuer-Edwards, MPA
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Intercultural Wellness Program

Community Fund for Wellness

Developing community leadership to support mental health and wellbeing, the Intercultural Wellness Program trains immigrant leaders to center existing cultural practices and work with fellow participants to bring their learnings back to their communities.

About

The Intercultural Wellness Program represents a collaboration between the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians and African Family Health Organization (AFAHO). Based on the Welcoming Center’s Immigrant Leadership Institute, the program trains participants to be community leaders in the areas of wellness and wellbeing. The program centers existing coping mechanisms within immigrant communities and encourages participants to operationalize these strategies to support themselves and others.

The program model involves a cohort of 20 individuals participating in a five-month training program with two training sessions per month. Each session focuses on a specific wellness topic, strategy, or coping mechanism as well as skill development for leadership and collective action, facilitation, and ensuring cultural authenticity. Training sessions are co-led by the Welcoming Center and AFAHO with guest lecturers who can provide expertise in behavioral health providers, faith initiatives, motivational interviewing and other wellness-related topics.

Between sessions, participants work together in groups to plan community projects in order to put their skills to action. The focus and format is determined completely by participants, with support from both the Welcoming Center and AFAHO. Potential projects include a series of gatherings in homes involving shared food, music, and discussion of solutions to barriers, community conversations about behavioral health stigma reduction, or a campaign of one-on-one discussions to address specific individual needs.