The Family Planning Council and Pennsylvania Perinatal Partnership

The Scattergood Foundation will fund the creation of an online clearinghouse to address issues related to perinatal depression. The website will serve professionals, state officials and laypersons looking for information about perinatal depression, filling a major gap in available resources in the field.

WHYY Mental Health Journalism

The Scattergood Foundation established a journalism position at WHYY, Philadelphia's public broadcasting station, dedicated to exploring issues in behavioral health. With the support of the Staunton Farm Foundation, the program has been expanded to include a second position at WDUQ in Pittsburgh. These reporters will cover emerging stories in behavioral health, with the goal of raising awareness in the region about the quality, accessibility and affordability of behavioral healthcare. The coverage aims to illuminate the underlying issues and inspire individuals and policy makers to enact system reform.

Center for Advancement of Nonviolence and Social Justice

The mission of the Center for Advancement of Nonviolence and Social Justice at the Drexel University School of Public Health is to transform current policies, systems and practice toward a more trauma-informed model. The objective of the Center is to reduce violence by applying an innovative approach, to transform the way that health care and behavioral healthcare addresses the needs of young victims of violence and trauma. This shift in approach will also stimulate a transformation of the public conversation about violence from the current criminal justice perspective toward a broader public health dialogue. This new dialogue, in turn, will lead to new ways to reduce violence in the inner city, while simultaneously developing more effective helping institutions and more compassionate care for traumatized people.

Landscaping Vocational Development Program

The mission of the Landscape Vocational Development Program is to provide at risk youth the opportunity to enhance their self esteem, develop teamwork skills and acquire the basic skills of a trade through a horticulture and landscaping experience. The Grant made to the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania was funded by Citizens Bank, The Scattergood Foundation and UWSEPA.

Fellowship Crisis Stabilization Program

A grant from the Scattergood Foundation is supporting a new initiative of Fellowship Health Resources, located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The Fellowship Crisis Stabilization Program is designed to provide an array of supportive outreach services for uninsured individuals with mental health concerns in order to prevent the escalation of crisis; provide triage and advocacy services in the event that hospitalization is necessary; connect individuals with appropriate health care benefits; and assist clients to maintain or obtain safe and affordable housing. The Scattergood Foundation is especially pleased that its award helped to leverage six times the original grant amount in additional support from the Phoenixville Community Health Foundation and the Chester County Department of Housing and Community Development. This one-year collaboration brings together two foundations and a county housing agency to purchase and establish a group home as a central site of supportive outreach services, thus improving the mental health delivery system for residents of Phoenixville.

Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health

The Scattergood Foundation has awarded a major grant to the Center for Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania to establish a new center to examine the ethical dimensions of behavioral healthcare. Through educational outreach, presentations by local and visiting experts, internship and fellowship programs, and the establishment of an electronic clearinghouse, the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health will build a knowledge base on the topic accessible to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners; convene groups of experts in the field to generate ideas and action; and inspire and establish the next generation of practitioners and scholars.

“Freud, Franklin and Beyond: A Contemporary Interdisciplinary Forum on Psychology and Society”

The Scattergood Foundation awarded a grant to the Education and Research Collaboration of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia to support the Education and Research Collaboration’s new public education series. Over the course of two years, the series aims to present ten educational programs for an audience of policymakers, academics, professionals, and community members, focusing on interdisciplinary exploration of topics related to psychology and society. The inaugural forum, which took place in October 2006, addressed the topic of urban violence, and featured experts in urban history, sociology, anthropology, trauma, and adolescent development.