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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Friendship Bench Project
The Friendship Bench Project will build on the NYC DOHMH Friendsh...
Friendship Bench Project
Scope: St. George, Stapleton, Port Richmond, Tompkinsville
Budget: $40,000
The Friendship Bench Project will build on the NYC DOHMH Friendship Bench Model, where peers in houses of worship and other places are trained to reach out and engage in conversation and in support for people who are in need, those who need to talk, are struggling with a problem. Peers would be trained to make a phone call to connect the person to helpful services as needed or to be a listening ear. The DOHMH provides a five-hour training for training Friendship Bench peers.
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Community Connectedness
This project will develop a community relationship building progr...
Community Connectedness
Scope: St. George, Stapleton, Port Richmond, Tompkinsville
Budget: $40,000
This project will develop a community relationship building program with wellness and personal relationship building; group sessions on getting to know your neighbors and neighborhood so that people feel connected to others for strength, to resource for help. This project could also include identifying and creating common space for meeting and group gatherings in public spaces such as gardens and parks. Included in this is ongoing group work which would be discussions and strategies in dealing with structures of inequities and disparities that create stress, depression, despondence among people living on the margins.
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Mental Health Training and Community Outreach
Train and send out speakers in a variety of languages and culture...
Mental Health Training and Community Outreach
Scope: St. George, Stapleton, Port Richmond, Tompkinsville
Budget: $40,000
Train and send out speakers in a variety of languages and cultures to houses of worship and other community group venues to give public presentations and educate and inform people about the mental health services available to them and their children. This project would develop culturally and linguistically appropriate brochures to distribute, messaging for social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram platforms) to effectively share information and resources.
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