All posts tagged "New York"

New York underserved community healthcare access, basic needs and mental health program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Healthcare Access, Basic Needs, Mental/Behavioral Health, Underserved Community, New York | Amount: $75,000+ | Deadline: Apr. 24, 2025

youth service grants: young, black girl laying on shelter bed looking sad

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New York City youth service improvement grants

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Welfare/Development, Youth Services, Youth Inequality, At-risk Youth, NYC | Amount: $25,000 | Deadline: Apr. 2, 2025

community grassroots organizing, social justice and change grants: group of protestors marching down street

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New York community grassroots organizing support grants

GRANT FOCUS: Community/Grassroots Organizing, Social/Racial/Economic Justice, Social Change, New York | Amount: Up to $20,000 | Deadline: Mar. 31, 2025

youth summer learning grants: happy children raising hands outside

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Rochester, NY area youth summer learning program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Summer Programs/Learning, OST Learning, Education, Rochester, NY | Amount: ~21,000 - $120,000 | Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025

community and youth arts project grants, arts and culture project grants: young black woman in overall painting on ground with lots of others painting in background

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NYC community arts/culture, education and human services grants

GRANT FOCUS: Arts/Culture, Education, Human Services, NYC, Underserved Communities | Amount: $30,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: Sept. 30, 2024

children/youth with disabilities grants: man laughing with disabled child

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Grants to address needs of youth with disabilities in Massachusetts and New York

GRANT FOCUS: Youth w/ Disabilities, Mental Health, Marginalized Youth, New York, Massachusetts | Amount: $15,000 - $50,000+ | Deadline: Aug. 7, 2024

New York school abuse investigation: the lobby of Shrub Oak school with childlike imagery around it

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New York Education Department hindered an abuse investigation at boarding school for autistic youth

The department violated state and federal law when it refused to provide records.

Brooklyn BIPOC community grants: Black youth on solid brightly colored background in jacket flexing arms

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Brooklyn BIPOC community strengthening and racial justice grants

GRANT FOCUS: BIPOC Community, Youth/Racial Justice, Civic Engagement, Community Dev., Brooklyn | Amount: Up to $45,000 per year | Deadline: May 15,...

NYC homeless youth and migrants: Two black males fill out forms using the tops of large cardboard boxes for desks while several other people stand crowded together in another room in the background

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Youth shelters lock out hundreds of NYC youth and migrants

The migrant crisis is increasingly intertwined with the rapidly rising number of homeless youth.

First-time juvenile offenders: Teen skateboarder in jeans and blue plaid shirt speeds through the pedestrian walkway on paved road over red metal bridge

Giving first-time juvenile offenders avenues away from detention in New York

Avenues’ program offers young people possibilities that many often feel aren't available to them.

Mandatory reporter training-illustration of a girl on a pink bacground

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Opinion

New York’s mandatory reporter training wants to have it both ways. That’s an improvement.

New York’s new online mandated reporter training course is less awful than its predecessors.

Juvenile detention populations low: Young black teen lies on bed with legs propped up on wall on cot in empty room with grey cement floor and white walls

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‘It’s not just a jail break’: Juvenile prison populations reach all-time lows

The statistics are fueling proponents’ hopes of entirely eliminating juvenile detention centers.

Amy Freitag to be president of New York Community Trust: white woman in blazer sitting and leaning forward while smiling outside

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► Newsmakers

Amy Freitag to be the new president of The New York Community Trust

The New York Community Trust recently announced that Amy Freitag will be its next president after an eight-month national search, succeeding 32-year...

Q&A: Exalt’s Gisele Castro on the importance of New York’s “raise the age” law

Exalt is a nonprofit in New York City. Giselle Castro talks about Exalt's work and their "raise the age" efforts. They work...

medical treatments for substance use for New York jails: protester holding "safe consumption now" sign

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Medical treatments for substance use disorders are slated for all New York jails and prisons

Under a law scheduled to take effect next year, each of New York’s jails and prisons are slated to establish medication-assisted treatment...

A school district added its name to police car for officers assigned to its schools,

Amid nationwide debate about police in schools, a few districts recently disbanded those units

For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School...

Helianis Quijada Salazar and Jasmine Jones stand inside the offices of JustUs, a Brooklyn, N.Y. projected aimed at diverting justice-involved girls and queer youth from juvenile detention facilities and into community programs.

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A New York City detention-diversion project is reserved for girls and queer youth

Since it launched in January, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in...

afterschool: Screenshot of serious woman with long dark hair against background with messages Afterschool Advocacy Week 2021 and NY State Network for Youth Success.