Patient-centered, affordable, coordinated, and innovative health care benefits everyone. You can help by supporting nonprofits that are strengthening New York’s health and behavioral health care systems and making them more inclusive and equitable for all New Yorkers.
Supporting Mental and Addiction Health Needs
Community Access was established in 1974 in response to the deinstitutionalization of patients from New York’s psychiatric hospitals. Today, it provides crisis intervention, affordable housing, education, job training, and other services to help New Yorkers with mental illness and substance use disorders live as independently as possible. With support from The Trust, Community Access is opening the city’s first peer-led crisis response center.
Headquartered in New York, the National Black Harm Reduction Network is dedicated to advancing harm reduction principles that optimize health and wellness for Black people, who are disproportionately harmed by public health initiatives, the criminal legal system, and drug policies. The nonprofit engages in advocacy, hosts events, and develops educational resources.
Long Island: Association for Mental Health and Wellness provides evidence-based practices, information, education, and resources to empower people and communities to sustain healthy and enriched lives. Services include care management and coordination, housing, workforce programs, psychiatric rehabilitation, food pantries, peer support groups, and support for veterans. With a grant from The Trust’s Long Island office, the Association is partnering with school districts to place social workers in schools.
Improving Patient-Centered Care
Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort recruits, screens, trains, matches, and supervises doula volunteers who make weekly visits to individuals facing the end of their lives. Doula services are provided free of charge, and volunteers come from diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, often speaking multiple languages.
“Compared to their peers in other cities, older New Yorkers are more likely to live alone, isolated from family members. As older adults age and inevitably face the end of life, doulas provide valuable companionship and support.”
Westchester: Cancer Support Team is a nonprofit home care program that provides professional nursing education and support, social work counseling, case management, and other services free of charge to cancer patients in Southern Westchester and their families.
Increasing Access to Community Care
Community Healthcare Network operates one of the largest networks of community health centers in New York City, providing comprehensive primary care, mental health services, and social support to low-income and uninsured New Yorkers. A Trust grant will help the Network open an optometry clinic in an underserved Brooklyn neighborhood.
New York School-Based Health Foundation, established in 2017 with a Trust grant, advocates for the expansion of school-based health centers through research and education, as well as improving access and quality of care for all children statewide. A Trust grant is helping downstate school-based health centers provide mental health care to newly arrived immigrant youth.
Primary Care Development Corporation was formed with Trust support in 1993 and provides capital financing, expertise, and advocacy to expand primary care access and advance health equity in low-income communities.
This list is not exhaustive. There are many incredible nonprofits helping to make our region a better place for all; we seek to highlight a few that may not already be on your radar. Please reach out to our philanthropic advising department at advising@thenytrust.org if you are a donor seeking customized recommendations based on your charitable goals.
