The Frost Foundation  
 
Louisiana 2016 Spring
 
 
 
 
 
PB&J Family Services, Inc.
 
PB&J Family Services, Inc.
Albuquerque, New Mexico / $15,000
PB&J Family Services is New Mexico’s ONLY child abuse prevention and treatment agency with the unique focus of education and support for the whole family. For 43 years, PB&J has continued to serve both parents and children. Free transportation is necessary and provided to the families. Very few families own or have access to the use of a car. PB&J has found that consistent family participation occurs when transportation is available. Optimal outcomes occur with consistent attendance.
 
Puerto Seguro Safe Harbor, Inc.
Socorro, New Mexico / $10,000
Puerto Seguro Safe Harbor, Inc. provides critical services to homeless and otherwise vulnerable people. Our services include food, clothing, shower and laundry access, counseling service, and crisis care of housing and medical. PSI is a cornerstone of the Socorro community. Our goal for this project is to replace and upgrade existing plumbing facilities at PSI, with the intent of introducing industrial-grade washers and dryers. These upgrades should improve the quality, quantity, and sustainability of our services.
 
Reel Fathers
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $10,000
More than one out of every three children lives absent from their biological father. Fathers in Focus program’s goal is to support men to become more fulfilled as fathers by learning key parenting skills as well as new ways to play and spend rewarding time with their child, like reading stories aloud and doing varied art activities together. Facilitated dialogue about the challenges and rewards of being a father and skills needed to be an effective co-parent is integral.
 
Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $60,000
(Multi-year over 4 years)
The Santa Fe Opera ALTO program in Santa Fe Public Schools is a free, district-wide standards-based program that brings professional teaching artists directly into third-grade classrooms for extended residencies. The program is providing training and professional development for Santa Fe Public School Teachers and Teaching Artists so that Santa Fe public school students can continue to receive arts education in the classroom well into the future.
 
Santa Fe Performing Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $10,000
SFPA’S programs provide children of all ages with a vehicle for the development of self-esteem. When a child is aware of their own worth it keeps them from endangering themselves with drugs or gang involvement. Performing arts also helps children build communication and problem solving skills to deal with other issues such as bullying, teen suicide and challenges facing LGBTQ youth. The goal of SFPA is to help kids at risk succeed and to provide an opportunity for safe, diverse, and creative educational programs.
 
Solace Crisis Treatment Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $15,000
Solace serves victims of sexual and other violent crimes, abused children, and individuals and families that are in crisis, overwhelmed, or experiencing symptoms of traumatic stress. These include veterans, active military, first responders and immigrants. Solace offers immediate professional crisis stabilization assessment and counseling, access to nationally re-accredited family advocacy for children and other crime victims, and cutting-edge primary prevention programming.
 
Southwest Women’s Law Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico / $10,000
The Southwest Women’s Law Center has been engaged in healthcare outreach for over 10-years. The SWLC will work to ensure that women in rural and underserved communities can access breast cancer information and services despite social factors such as ethnicity, geographic location, education, language, cultural beliefs or health illiteracy. SWLC seeks to secure the policy and system changes necessary to improve healthcare network adequacy and eliminate gaps in coverage, and barriers to access for low-income women needing breast cancer services.
 
St. Vincent Hospital
 
St. Vincent Hospital Foundation
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $2,500,000
(Multi-year Grant over 6 years)
 
Teach for America
Gallup, New Mexico / $8,000
By almost any measure the educational outcomes in New Mexico are among the worst in the nation. At Teach for America, we grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity by enlisting our nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort. We recruit, train and support a diverse group of leaders who commit to teach for at least two years in public schools. We support our teachers to have a significant impact on their students and encourage them to become lifelong advocates for their students.
 
Warehouse 21
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $10,000
W21 provides youth with access to the things they say they want - a creative place where they are able to build positive mentoring relationships through learning, being a contributable member of society, promoting artistic development, opportunities that act as a springboard to post-secondary education, and being compensated for this work. Youth who are self-driven and have a goal in the arts need a community place like W21.
 
Youth Shelters and Family Services
Santa Fe, New Mexico / $10,000
Our caring and professionally trained staff provide essential support to young people during a time of fear and uncertainty in their lives due to abuse, neglect and homelessness. Staff also immediately begin to place them in long-term safe and stable housing. We strive to help youth identify their strengths and succeed in every area of their lives such as school, work, and peer interactions. We help them build positive relationships and acquire the skills they will need to become independent.
 
 
Out of State
 
Big Dogs Huge Paws, Inc.
Larkspur, Colorado / $2,000
(Discretionary Grant)
 
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia / $15,000
(Discretionary Grant)
 
 
 
 
 
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