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Cancer Option Collaborative, The COC, mission is to help cancer patients SUCCEED on their ROAD TO RECOVERY through Awareness, Emotional Support and Financial Relief Services. We strive to bring together resources to help relieve the unexpected financial burdens experienced.. We raise money to support our mission and to help them prevent eviction, utility disconnect, vehicle repossession, and more. Our overall goal is to help people actively battling cancer get the services necessary and ultimately increase survivorship.

2 Objective of H.B.K association "HELP BURNS KIDS 'association wants children with burns financial support. This we will not do that. Because we have good contacts with the Belgian Foundation for Burns and Burns various centers we wish to maintain a good cooperation with them. This is because we, despite our efforts, do not have the know-how to distribute our collected money to what are the most pressing needs at that time. Therefore, we will increasingly are demanding to receive a request for support from the Belgian Burn Foundation. This financial aid to burn patients is granted within the Burns Foundation by a committee of social workers, nurses and independent specialists from all Belgian burn centers scrutinize each application and continue to monitor the financial assistance in the care process. On its own initiative the association will take well-founded initiatives to stimulate children with burns in their long struggle rehabilitation. "Burns Help Kids" association will continue to grant aid internally considering. Here are some ways to achieve our goals. Costs for additional medication and bandages (D therapy) Costs for psychological support (no intervention) Costs for increasing co-payments related to physiotherapy. Costs for reimbursement of additional pressure suits and or orthopedic devices. Costs for specific scar care (make-up, tattoos, cures, LPG (Louis Paul Guitay) computer-controlled suction and roller massage, ... ..) Costs for toys on the burns services Cost of delegation of personnel for lectures on prevention in schools and disclosure in the relevant schools in specific patients (children) Costs for rooming-in of the parents (not always reimbursed by the hospital) Costs for transport by ambulance or helicopter. Cost of homemaker. Because of the additional concerns that must be given to the child is left less time for household chores. Opkrikkende support to children with burns in their struggle for healing in various burn centers in Belgium. Costs for UV-resistant swimsuits Support various initiatives for children with burns as treatment camps and other camps that healing and integration can work hand in society. Prevention to prevent burns. Organization of full school day in primary school and pre-school children. Organization prevention classes for the purposes of BRAVO (Burns Appearance) for both schools and other organizations. We wish to be a point of contact for children with burns. Organisation of the annual meeting for families with burn patients. "Burns Help Kids" will sensitize people to the needs of these children and do the funds seek to raise.

Support the educational aspirations of young indigenous Oaxacan women from impoverished rural communities in the state. Support the successful completion of high school studies of our grantees and their ability to continue university level studies. Promote the holistic development of the grantees during their high schools studies enhancing their studies through workshops and courses regarding gender equity, prevention of adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STD), prevention of violence in dating relationships, environmental stewardship, and reading outside of school assignments. Include in the grant personal physical and mental health care to assure health issues do not impede their development. Encourage grantees who complete high school successfully to continue their studies at the university level through financial assistance, lodging and other support. In 2018 the Fondo is funding 34 young women in high school and 15 studying in university. Note: The high school level grantees live in their communities or a town nearby that offers high school level studies. Each month all the grantees gather at the Fondo office in the capital city for a weekend workshops and courses and receive their stipend for the following month as well as their expenses for travel.

Founded in 1976, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) engages youth and adult community members as leaders in promoting safe, secure jobs and healthy communities throughout eastern Massachusetts. Through education, leadership development and coalition-building, youth and adults gain the skills and support to address dangerous work conditions and prevent work-related diseases and disabilities. MassCOSH has a special focus on immigrants and other lower-income adults, and young people of color who often work in jobs that are the most unsafe and unhealthy.

The Naval War College Foundation, powered by its generous members and donors, provides critical funds needed to support the U.S. Naval War College's unique ability to develop military and civilian leaders who are: Skilled in the strategic and operational challenges of today and tomorrow; dedicated to preserving national security and a global position of leadership; and adept at navigating the challenges of war and its prevention. The Naval War College Foundation’s purposes are educational and charitable. It solicits and receives charitable gifts for the encouragement and support of the work of the U.S. Naval War College.

The advancement of education for the public benefit, in particular among girls from poor families in rural Nepal who would not otherwise receive a formal education The prevention or relief of poverty in rural areas of Nepal by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient To develop the capacity and skills of the members of socially and economically disadvantaged communities of rural Nepal in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Toronto currently serve over 13,600 member children and youth, across 34 communities. We offer diverse community skill based programs that include physical recreation, homework help, computer literacy, life-skills counselling, youth leadership, creative arts, meal provision, nutrition, drug and alcohol prevention, employment readiness, child care, family resource programs, early years centres and more to over 5,700 children and youth every day in 37 safe environments across Toronto."

Futebol da forca [football gives strength] is an independent international foundation, educational platform and community for purpose-driven football coaches. The organisation was founded in Mozambique in 2012 to work within football to empower girls with agency to make informed decisions and live a life they value. Futebol da forca engages, trains and supports voluntary football coaches to empower girls within football, while changing attitudes and norms that today prevent girls from reaching their full potential, in order for girls to thrive far outside the football field.

The Association is established for the non-profit pursuit, of civic, solidarity and social utility purposes, aimed at meeting the most pressing social challenges operating in favor of underprivileged subjects, with special attention paid to minors suffering from psychological, social, economic, physical and family disorders, through the use of sports, recreational physical activity as a means of integration, inclusion, psycho-physical wellbeing, growth and affirmation of human rights, as well as prevention of social deviance phenomena, by promoting sport projects linked to social development, cooperation and peace.

Our Mission is:Investing in our tomorrows involves training the doctors of the future, providing for the educational needs of children in need, raising awareness among families, expanding preventive healthcare services, and including the preservation of nature. But we can say that lately we focused on rising fund for "medical faculty students" whose socio-economic conditions are not sufficient.At this moment, we have 124 medical school students who are going to be doctors in the future. Up to now, we have 130 graduated doctors by our funds.

IPcko was established in 2012 as an online chat-helpline for young people. It served as an answer to the demand of people who wanted to talk about their problems through unconventional communication channel. This has been the groundwork for us and the approach we have towards psychology as our main target audience were young people - teenagers and young adults. We aim to connect psychology with technologies, offer it as an attractive service and most importantly make it accessible. For this reason, everything we do is anonymous, free of charge and round the clock. To this day our chatline has been our most successful way of reaching out to people as can be seen on the number of contacts in our statistic. During the pandemic the topic of mental health began to come into foreground of the Slovak public space and with it we have created multiple concepts of how we want to develop our work in the future. We have created a Crisis helpline - through e-mail and phone, to make it more accessible for other age groups as well. We expanded our view, focusing on people of all ages in crisis situations, while maintaining some key projects focused on younger audiences. Suicide prevention is our key objective and by creating widely accessible ways of how to contact us (eg. Chatline and phoneline) we can start the whole helping process smoothly. As the pandemic progressed, we also started developing our Crisis outreach team - KITIP, that went out into the field, especially to clients that needed it in centers where people were isolated for a certain period of time after their arrival from abroad. With enough safety measures we were able to arrange "in-person" meetings with the affected people. This team was established to also be a part of "crisis services" during mentally exhausting situations, such as search for missing persons, suicide attempts, car crashes and other tragical events. One of the most internationally known tragedy in Slovakia was the widely medialized terrorist attack last year in October, where we responded and helped the directly affected people but also the bystanders of the event. With the pandemic regressing one of the biggest demands was to offer services that are offline. For this specific reason we have established Crisis Intervention centers - Kacko. We created a safe place where people can have in-person sessions with psychologists and utilize different tools to cope with their difficulties. Each Kacko is created in the center of the city, with accessibility and visibility being the main 2 goals. It is important to create a comfortable place that feels exclusive as usually mental health is associated with old and worn-out psychiatric hospitals which discourages people from seeking mental health support. Lastly, I would like to talk about clubs and then tie all of these services together and give you context of how they operate and what is the rationale behind it. Clubs are safe spaces for young people where they can spend their free time engaging with different activities. There is always a regular program for each opening day (Wed-Sat) that is voluntary and people can decide to take part in it if they feel like it. It can be discussions, presentations, board games, tournaments, art/music-therapy, workshops, cooking, etc. All of these activities aim to help people develop, socialize and enjoy their free time while getting to know the psychologists working there. That is why all of the abovementioned activities are done with psychologists, clients can really get to know them and see them for the people they are. These clubs (currently 4 with 5th one on the way) are located together with Kackos, in case somebody attending feels like they want to talk about something in private. All of these projects are built with the thought of creating a coherent network of psychosocial support, crisis help and suicide prevention. I will demonstrate how this works on an example case. 18-year-old Dorothy contacts us with suicidal thoughts, claiming to be on train tracks and wanting to say goodbye. In serious cases such as this one there is never just one person working on them. Supervisors of the line assist the operator, contact the police or other departments if necessary and work together to come to a solution and minimize the risk of individual mistakes. Our client might be in a serious mental state and in such cases, we contact our outreach team. Naturally we first need to come into agreement about this approach with the client. If they agree, the operator - representing the team of people on the other side, stays in contact with the client until the outreach team reaches our client and continues the intervention. Part of this intervention are also Kackos and Clubs. Kacko gives clients option to schedule a personal meeting when they feel they need it. The clubs on the other hand give options to socialize with peers, utilize time meaningfully and feel accepted. Currently we operate Crisis helpline (e-mail, video and phone), crisis chatline "IPcko.sk", 9 Kackos (each regional city of Slovakia + Malacky) - soon opening 10th in Michalovce, 4 Clubs (Nitra, Presov, Bratislava and Trnava + soon opening Michalovce). Apart from these we also have online terrain workers that engage with people on discord and other social media. We are looking to expand in this idea a create a proper community online as well, with regular content on discord and twitch as to answer the needs of young people as they live fully-fledged lives both outside and inside the online environment. With the invasion of Ukraine, it felt just natural that this network of help that we are trying to create would respond and adapt to the situation. Our psychologists are present at the border crossings from Ukraine since the 3rd day and are present to this day. In addition, we have also established Intervention facilities in Transit center Michalovce and Hotspot Kosice. Our services are reflection of systematic gaps in our mental health system and therefore we don't see our projects related to the war as additional "short-term" opportunities but more like expansion of our current network and adapting it to the needs in our country. For this exact reason all of our services are available in Ukrainian language as well, with the only exception being the chatline on which we are not able to guarantee the same level of quality as on the Slovak version. We strive to create a systematic form of help that is available in each region with the ability to respond and adapt to different situations and crises. It is key to bridge the gap between the beneficiary and the psychologists by utilizing different means, in our case mostly technology, to make the feeling of attractiveness stronger than the stigma mental health faced over the past 40 years. It is in our best interest to make MHPSS available to everybody who needs it and not create exclusive forms of help available to only a certain group as that only deepens the tensions and supports false discourses. This is where we see IPckos mission currently within our national context. We do not only provide MHPSS services but also educate about how to handle different situations. We created multiple leaflets with coping mechanisms to utilize in difficult moments, educate parents about improvements in communication with children, work with schools - teachers, psychologists, students and other relevant actors on how to include Ukrainian students in classes, how to handle crisis situations (suicides or attempts) in school environment. Currently in Bratislava we have a training of directors of high schools about crisis intervention - they then appoint one person who will go through our accredited training and will be responsible for knowing what to do in crisis situation in the given school. To sum it up we do not see the intervention only as direct action in crisis but also as offering psychoeducation or alternative ways to spend free time and socialize. Only with this systematic approach focusing on all the different aspects can we create a network offering a safety-net to people who need it and actually provide the change to the system that crumbles.

Friends in Kneed encourages young athletes to support one another through sharing their experiences in a forum, while learning about their injuries and how to prevent future injuries during the rest of their athletic careers. It gives athletes a community and a support network to let them know that they are not the only ones in their situations and that there are other athletes that are going through and have been through the same process. Friends in Kneed creates a student athlete knee-rehabilitation support group that in the future hopes to provide other injured athletes in financial need with aid for knee-related operations and proper rehabilitation.