Health Law Advocates

Mental Health Advocacy Program for Kids Years 9-13

MHAP for Kids enables youth with unmet mental health needs who are in, or at risk of entering, juvenile court, to access treatment. An independent study of the program confirmed its vast positive impacts. HLA seeks to create a statewide MHAP for Kids program with sustainable funding.

CATEGORY: Programs & Services
LOCATION: Boston, MA
AMOUNT: $675,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
WEBSITE: healthlawadvocates.org

FEATURED IMPACT STORY


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