| IMH 2024 Cycle 1 | |||
| Organization Name | Project Name | Funding Amount | Program Description |
| Advocacy | |||
| New Orleans Youth Alliance | NOYA’s Youth-Led Policymaking and Advocacy Work | $30,000.00 | NOYA is establishing a robust youth-guided Policy Department to research, develop, and advocate for measures that benefit young people and their families. |
| The Institute for Enhanced Equity | PEP Prep: Empowering Parents as Education Advocates | $25,000.00 | AlignED NOLA seeks support for our Parent Empowerment Programming (PEP) amplify family voices and empower parents as advocates for their children’s education and well-being. |
| Advocacy Total | $55,000.00 | ||
| The First 72+ | The First 72+ Family Reunification Project | $25,000.00 | The First 72+, partnered with the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, will stop cycles of incarceration through parenting education and wraparound support for reentering parents |
| Silence Is Violence | Victim Allies Project | $35,000.00 | SIV provides survivors and witnesses of homicide with trauma-informed therapy and community-based case management, healing families and strengthening community. |
| Maroon Inc. | New Orleans Trauma-Informed Educators’ Summit | $30,000.00 | Maroon will hold inaugural trauma-informed summit, in partnership with local experts, to benefit New Orleans educators and support larger SEL advocacy efforts. |
| Reaching for the Stars Foundation | Mentoring for Change! | $10,000.00 | We seek funding to implement and expand free, sports-based youth development that utilizes mentoring as a key strategy to empower disadvantaged, urban, male youth. |
| Boys Town Louisiana | Boys Town Louisiana Fostering Mental Health Care for Residential Youth | $20,000.00 | Funding will provide vital mental health services to traumatized youth in Boys Town LA’s residential homes who were removed from unstable homes or involved in juvenile court. |
| unCommon Construction | unCommon Construction Apprenticeship Program Framing Character Initiative | $25,000.00 | Career Pathways Support Program for unCommon Construction Alumni |
| Be Loud Studios | Be Loud Junior Producers | $10,000.00 | The Junior Producers program uses radio to amplify New Orleans youth voice and well-being by inviting high schoolers to speak up, build connections, and practice leadership. |
| Community Based Total | $155,000.00 | ||
| Early Childhood | |||
| TrainingGrounds, Inc | Expanding TrainingGrounds’ We Connect Family Resource HUB with focus on fathers | $75,000.00 | Expand TrainingGrounds WE CONNECT Family Resource Hub to reach more families, with special emphasis on engaging more fathers to improve the well-being of young children. |
| Sauls Light | JUST NICU: Supporting Thriving and Connected Families | $25,000.00 | Saul’s Light’s JUST NICU program expands evidence-based supports for families during and after a NICU stay to improve mental health and developmental outcomes for infants |
| The New Orleans Women & Children’s Shelter | Early Childhood Supports for Homeless Families | $25,000.00 | NOWCS, the largest shelter for homeless families, supports all family members, including young children needing early childhood support to mitigate the damage of homelessness. |
| Early Childhood | $125,000.00 | ||
| School Based Services | |||
| KID smART | With Feeling: centering SEL in New Orleans public school classrooms | $30,000.00 | KID smART will more meaningfully incorporate socio-emotional learning objectives into Creative Schools, including SEL-centered professional development for teachers. |
| Breakthrough New Orleans (fiscal agent: Isidore Newman School) | Breakthrough New Orleans: Students Teaching Students | $15,000.00 | Funding will provide for a licensed counselor to be on staff during the six-week Summer Academy to support Breakthrough New Orleans students and teaching fellows. |
| School based Services | $45,000.00 | ||
| Total Overall | $380,000.00 | ||
