Community Catalyst

Count on Youth! Improving MH and SUD Services in Essex County Schools

To improve youth mental health in Essex County, we propose a community change project to shift high schools’ responses to student substance misuse away from punishment, expand access to school- and community-based MH and SUD services, and center the needs of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ students.

CATEGORY: Community Change
LOCATION: Boston, MA
AMOUNT: $370,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2022
WEBSITE: http://www.communitycatalyst.org


Perpetual Motion

Have you heard the Tower Foundation’s origin story?  It has now been freshly told by Cassandra Gainer in the recent issue of Traffic East, a Western New York journal celebrating entrepreneurial and creative energy.  Gainer interviewed daughters Mollie Byrnes and Cynthia Doyle in telling the story of Peter and Elizabeth Tower’s life together and how they came … Continued