Funded Projects - Social, Emotional and Behavioral Health

Projects in this portfolio foster strong families, address the developmental, behavioral and mental health needs of Wake County children and youth, and help prevent substance abuse, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

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  • Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!)
    Apply the YES! Youth Empowerment Model to increase Wake County’s overall capacity.
     
  • YWCA of the Greater Triangle
    Create real world opportunities for young women to build lifelong skills and developmental assets through mentoring and year-round education experiences that increase physical and financial fitness.

  • Children's Home Society of North Carolina
    Expand services to therapeutic foster home providers and offer clinical oversight to clients with mental health needs.

  • Interact
    Consolidate agency services and develop a new family-centered model for meeting health and behavioral needs of children and mothers.

  • Triangle Family Services
    Offer outpatient mental health services and improve access to medications to low-income uninsured children.

  • Triangle Family Services
    Offer outpatient mental health services and improve access to medications for low-income uninsured children.

  • Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood
    Create development office to support five-year strategic plan, replace reduced founder funding and allow for growth of services.

  • Wake County Medical Society
    Train primary care and mental health providers who care for significant numbers of young, low-income children to provide effective treatment for social, emotional and behavioral problems.

  • Girls on the Run Triangle
    Expand structured, twelve-week program of exercise and sport participation to enhance the physical and mental health of at-risk adolescent females in selected communities.

  • Triangle Family Services, Interact and Safechild
    Ensure that children who have witnessed family violence have access to age-appropriate services that help overcome long-term psychological, social, developmental and emotional health effects.