The People's Money (2021-2022)
#trie-pb community-led recovery
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- If you’re 11 and older and live, work or go to school in one of the 33 neighborhoods hardest hit by COVID-19, you can vote on which project you want for your neighborhood. If you’re not sure whether you qualify, please check this page (External link) for a list of the neighborhoods. You can only vote in one neighborhood, and you can only vote once.
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Coney Island Youth & Family Movement for Mental Health
Create ten immersion events over a three-day period to promote me...
Coney Island Youth & Family Movement for Mental Health
Scope: Coney Island and Brighton Beach
Budget: $40,000
Create ten immersion events over a three-day period to promote mental health and well-being among youth 12-24 years old and their families. The events will include educational presentations by trained mental health professionals, healthy eating and healthy cooking, yoga, massage, and other activities to promote mental health. Local mental health providers will be engaged to share their information, provide referrals, and answer questions. This program will enlist youth of color and their families as change agents to bridge the gap in Black and Brown communities between unmet mental health needs and mental health care.
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Frontline Mental Health Advocacy through Barber Shops & Salons
This project will increase awareness of mental illness and reduce...
Frontline Mental Health Advocacy through Barber Shops & Salons
Scope: Coney Island and Brighton Beach
Budget: $40,000
This project will increase awareness of mental illness and reduce stigma in Coney Island by partnering with local barbers and hair salon businesses. We will work with 19 barber shops and 17 salons to serve as a frontline on mental health and to distribute mental health related educational materials in English, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese to their customers, and will use social media to promote this partnership. Our barber shops and hair salon business owners reach over 5,000 individuals collectively in one weeks’ time directly benefiting diverse young boys, girls, women, and men.
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Mental Health Support App for Youth
The goal of this project is to reduce mental illness stigma among...
Mental Health Support App for Youth
Scope: Coney Island and Brighton Beach
Budget: $40,000
The goal of this project is to reduce mental illness stigma among youth 12-24 years old by creating a mental health education app with a downloadable list of mental health resources or therapists within the Coney Island Zip Codes of 11224 and 11235. The direct beneficiaries will be all Coney Island residents and our youth specifically.
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