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August 28, 2008 | Program Result
After School helped develop intermediary organizations in Boston, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area in order to create citywide systems of after-school programs.
National Program
Program to support a three-city demonstration project designed to connect at-risk urban youth with responsible adults in activities after school.
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national, non-profit child advocacy organization, conducted an educational campaign to increase policymakers' awareness of the value of publicly funded programs to strengthen youth and fragile families.
June 1, 2003 | Program Result
Boston University Medical Center expanded the Reach Out and Read program, which trains pediatric providers in counseling parents about reading to their children and provides practitioners with books to give them at well-child visits.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
The leadership of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development planned and implemented a national center to provide the public and policy-makers with science-based information on child health and development issues.
October 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Head Start program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science planned and implemented a substance abuse prevention project that worked to change community norms and behaviors that put children at risk of substance abuse.
June 1, 2001 | Program Result
Starting in January 1996, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Albany, N.Y. developed a method — through the education, social services, juvenile justice, and mental health systems — to purchase and manage individualized services for seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents to divert them from unnecessary placements and hospitalizations.
September 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation held a planning meeting for a new initiative in Miami-Dade County to develop a comprehensive system of interventions addressing the health and developmental needs of the area's preschool children.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Mental Health Services Program for Youth Replication was a national program set up by RWJF to follow-up on the results of the Mental Health Services Program for Youth that ran from 1988 to 1998.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The State of Indiana Office of the Secretary of Family & Social Services, Indianapolis, developed a state-level consortium of agencies to pool mental health treatment dollars to serve seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.