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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Teen Nights
Scope: East Flatbush
Budget: $40,000
Biweekly nights dedicated solely to the mental health of teens in East Flatbush and East New York. Increasing mental health awareness, sharing healthy coping skills and providing access to tangible wellness techniques that can be used well after the conclusion of those special evenings. These teen nights would include therapeutic activities such as group work, dance, coloring, and meditation. They will also participate in the creation of tangible wellness tools (stress balls, therapeutic dough, etc).
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Wellness Center
Scope: East Flatbush
Budget: $40,000
A community space dedicated to quality health and wellness where the services are equitable regardless of insurance status, and community members can both make appointments and pop in to meet with licensed professionals in the fields of mental and physical health. Services offered will include and not be limited to nutrition education, physical fitness, massage therapy and mental health in the form of mindfulness, meditation, and psychotherapy.
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Well Family Mental Health Conference
A two day mental health conference held in May that will focus on...
Well Family Mental Health Conference
Scope: East Flatbush
Budget: $40,000
A two day mental health conference held in May that will focus on holistic mental health and wellness for the entire the family. The conference will feature licensed professionals of color sharing tangible well techniques, such as stress reduction, communication of feelings, and navigating both trauma and healing. Families will be awarded scholarships for 6 months of therapy, meditation, yoga, fitness training, etc to increase health beyond the conference.
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