The American Psychoanalytic Foundation Committee (APF) of APsaA is pleased to announce that the following grants were recently approved, making possible the dynamic outreach projects that follow.
Note: the APF is standing by “with money available” to consider grant applications for projects that meet the APF objectives of sponsoring programs that promote a better understanding of psychoanalysis in the community.
Grant proposal guidelines may be downloaded at: apsa.org
$750 grant from the Foundation to support the Affiliate Council Scientific Paper Prize.
$4,000 to support the Early Childhood Training Initiative, a new outreach program in Ann Arbor, Michigan, designed to nurture the growth of early childhood educators and day care workers through professional training, workshops, and consultations.
$5,000 to Beatrice Beebe at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, for the 9/11 Mothers and Young Children Project. Since November 2001, the project has been providing outreach, group counseling, and videotaped mother-child bonding consultations for women who were pregnant when widowed by the World Trade Center disaster of September 11, 2001, for their infants born after the disaster, and for their older children.
$2,000 for support of the first phase of the development of the Washington D.C. Area Psychotherapy Practice Research Network.
$5,000 for a new outreach initiative, the Analytic Service to Adolescents Project (ASAP) at Morton Alternative High School located in Cicero, Ill. The ASAP project strives to be a community intervention whose activities will help not only the high-risk students themselves, but also their families and teachers.
$5,000 to the foundation for the development of an outreach program to validate the effectiveness of a new and innovative approach to working with parents.
$3,000 to support a community outreach workshop titled “Prejudice in Everyday Life.”
$5,000 to support psychoanalysts' participation in a study using mentalization and altruistic bystanding to change the school climate in a model Jamaican all-age school.
$2,000 to Regina Pally to support a symposium on mirror neurons held at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.
$2,000 to support a second year of funding of the institute's library outreach program.
$2,000 for support of the course “Freud's Models of the Mind” offered by the Stanford University Medical Center geared to medical students, residents, and undergraduates.
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Dottie Jeffries is public affairs director of APsaA.