Mental Health Advocates of WNY (formerly Mental Health Association of Erie County)

Youth Peer Advocate Non-Crisis Support Line

MHAWNY’s Youth Peer Advocate program seeks to create a local NON-CRISIS support line where young people can call, text or chat with a credentialed Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) about issues and concerns they have that are affecting their mental health.

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Buffalo, NY
AMOUNT: $35,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2022
WEBSITE: https://www.mhawny.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