Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Announces Five Winners of the Inaugural Innovation Awards
06 Outubro 2021 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Selected from more than 850 applicants, the first-ever Alliance
for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards grantees are Black
Girls Smile, citiesRISE, The Rural Behavioral Health Institute,
Smart from the Start, and Teen Line.
- The five winners offer a diverse set of inventive solutions,
aiming to address vital mental health issues facing young people,
exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Morgan Stanley today announced the five winners of the inaugural
Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards, its
nationwide call to support transformative solutions that address
adverse mental health outcomes for children and young people across
the U.S. The program will award the finalists a total of $500,000
in grants to help scale their solutions, and provide consultation
and a showcase opportunity on November 11.
The five finalists were selected after a robust review of over
850 applications by mental health and grant-making experts from the
Alliance for Children’s Mental Health – a collaboration between
Morgan Stanley, its Foundation and leading nonprofit organizations
in this space.
The finalists chosen are addressing a diverse set of
communities, geographies, and needs through their transformative
and culturally responsive models:
- Black Girls Smile provides virtual and in-person mental
health literacy programming, education, therapy scholarships and
resources to help Black girls and women lead mentally healthy
lives.
- Suicide Prevention Program: Building on its proven mental
health literacy programming, this culturally and gender-responsive
curriculum focuses on suicide prevention among Black girls and
youth, with a new digital platform for enhancing virtual and
on-demand programming across the country.
- citiesRISE is committed to transforming mental health
through local innovation, coalition building, and youth-led action
globally.
- Mental Health Gathering Spaces: The Gathering Space model meets
youth, particularly those who are marginalized, where they are by
integrating mental health enhancing interventions into existing
community spaces, with potential for adaptation into a range of
settings and scaling for nationwide impact.
- The Rural Behavioral Health Institute is focused on
improving the mental health of those living in rural communities by
disseminating clinically proven digital mental health care.
- Digital Screening Linked to Same Day Mental Health Care: This
piloted project will identify and connect youth with an elevated
risk of suicide to same-day mental health care and includes a
universal digital suicide-risk screening of youth, linkage to
same-day follow-up telehealth or in-person care, and an
implementation template for replicating to other schools.
- Smart from the Start is a trauma-informed,
multi-generational family support and community engagement
organization with a mission to promote the healthy development of
young children and families living in the most underserved
communities of Boston and Washington, DC.
- Address the Stress Program: This program is embedded in the
community, engaging both parents and their kids in talk therapy and
behavioral health counseling by developing fun and interesting
group activities that promote mental, emotional, and physical
health while reducing stigma and barriers to care.
- Teen Line is dedicated to peer-to-peer support by
providing teenagers across the country with an anonymous,
non-judgmental space to talk about their problems with highly
trained teens who are supervised by adult mental health
professionals.
- Latinx Youth Career Development Program: This pilot program
will train Latinx youth to answer texts on the peer-to-peer
hotline, aiming to encourage Latinx teens to pursue careers in
mental health, increase the diversity of hotline volunteers, expand
the hotline’s service hours, and build more Latinx mental health
ambassadors.
“This inaugural class of finalists is a wonderful example of the
collective impact diverse organizations can have when working to
better the mental well-being of children and young people across
the country,” said Ted Pick, Co-President at Morgan Stanley and
Chair of the Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Advisory Board.
“From rural towns to big cities, we look forward to helping scale
our finalists’ programs to reach those communities who can benefit
from these innovative and culturally responsive approaches.”
According to research from the Alliance, 43% of U.S. teens are
concerned about mental health challenges as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Given the continued toll the pandemic has had on
youth, innovative mental health services are critical to scale now
more than ever. One in five children suffer from mental illness,
but this space remains highly underfunded with less than two
percent of philanthropic funding going toward mental health in the
U.S. – and even less for funding targeted to kids and teens.
To address that gap in funding, Morgan Stanley has organized
this Innovation Awards program and is now inviting these five
winners to showcase their innovative solutions to a broader
audience, including other funders, during the Innovation Awards
Showcase on November 11.
“We want to thank all the applicants for submitting their
proposals and our Alliance nonprofit organization partners for
their work during the process of selecting this year’s recipients,”
said Joan Steinberg, President of the Morgan Stanley Foundation,
and CEO of the Alliance for Children’s Mental Health’s Advisory
Board. “This overwhelming response has reaffirmed the fact that
there is a substantial funding gap in this space and a plethora of
encouraging innovation in need of support. We urge other funders to
join forces and make children’s mental health philanthropy a
priority.”
For those interested in attending the Innovation Awards Showcase
on November 11 from 12-1 PM ET, please sign up
here.
About Morgan Stanley
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About Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental
Health
The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health brings
together key leaders in the children's mental health space and
combines the resources and reach of Morgan Stanley and its
Foundation with the knowledge and experience of its distinguished
nonprofit partner organizations. The Alliance helps strategically
address children's mental health concerns and the far-reaching
challenges of stress, anxiety and depression. For more information
about the Alliance, visit
www.morganstanley.com/mentalhealthalliance.
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