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Commission to Build a Healthier America June Meeting Agenda
This is the agenda for the June 19, 2013 RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America public meeting.
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Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
Caring Across Communities re-engineers traditional mental health services to provide better and more sensible care for immigrants and refugees, especially children. Millions of families come to America each year in search of a better life. But assimilation is not easy and takes time. Immigrants face many barriers, including language, acculturation challenges, poverty and social hardships related to relocation. For refugees escaping persecution and violence, their traumatic experiences can impact greatly the social development of children. Unfortunately, most are unaware of how and where to get help. Caring Across Communities intervenes by addressing the specific mental health needs for children of immigrants and refugees.
National Program
George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services Center for Health & Health Care in Schools
2121 K Street, N.W., Suite 250
Washington, DC, 20037-1861
(202) 466-3396
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Julia Graham Lear
Program Director
202-466-3396
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Olga Acosta Price
Program Director
202-466-3396
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RWJF Staff
Recent Grants
- $2,499,204.00 awarded to George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services Center for Health & Health Care in Schools - Technical assistance and direction for RWJF's Caring Across Communities program
- $300,000.00 awarded to Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center, Inc. - Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
- $299,945.00 awarded to Minneapolis Public Schools - Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
- $300,000.00 awarded to Portland Public Schools - Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
- $299,584.00 awarded to Village Family Service Center - Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth