Centro de la Comunidad, Inc.
$500 / 2013 / Health and Human Services
For support of the Anthony McCarthy Civil Rights Awards.
Loving Arms, Inc.
$4,950 / 2013 / Health and Human Services
For consultant and staff development costs for expansion of shelter and supportive services for homeless or runaway youth.
The Salvation Army
$5,000 / 2013 / Health and Human Services
For general support of services for the homeless and needy.
Adoptions Together, Inc.
$299,859 / 2012 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Family Find Step Down Project, which is committed to achieving permanency for 135 children who are currently in Baltimore City foster care. Working closely with the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, Adoptions Together identifies and recruits family members and others who may be interested in adoption, and provides placement, preparation, and post-placement counseling and support services.
East Baltimore Development, Inc.
$75,000 / 2012 / Health and Human Services
For support of an Adolescent Behavioral Health Partnership to be implemented by Elev8 Baltimore, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Elev8 provides a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction intervention, designed to improve students’ skills for coping with trauma and anxiety, to 400 middle school students. The project includes a behavioral assessment system that identifies students in need of behavioral health support services.