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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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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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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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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact
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Reducing Environmental Stress Together (REST) Program
Community Fund for Wellness
The Reducing Environmental Stress Together (REST) Initiative addresses the mental health needs of African and Caribbean immigrants and refugees (ACIR) in greater Philadelphia.
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The African Family Health Organization’s (AFAHO) Reducing Environmental Stress Together (REST) Initiative addresses the mental health needs of African and Caribbean immigrants and refugees (ACIR) in greater Philadelphia. ACIR communities are under extraordinary resource constraints while simultaneously coping with past traumas, intimate partner violence, discrimination, and attempting to acculturate to American society. For many groups who speak regionalized languages less commonly translated, possess varied legal statuses, and do not have access to or trust western mental healthcare systems, there are few meaningful resources available to help them address mental health struggles. Serving highly insulated and isolated ACIR communities, AFAHO’s REST Initiative aims to leverage the organization’s decades of experience working with these groups to meaningfully impact the mental health with direct services and develop tools and resources that will help to integrate ACIR communities into the mental health service models of other service providers. This will be achieved through direct provision of support groups and one-on-one counseling that is language specific and integrates cultural relevancy for ACIR community members. This will be complemented by the development of a tool specifically designed to measure the wellbeing and self-efficacy of ACIRs, and development of a network of mental health providers that is responsive to ACIR linguistic and cultural needs.