This grant covered the annual salary and associated costs of a new Associate Director for the Youth Impact and Inclusion Branch of the Emotional Well-being Team. The Associate Director is responsible for:
- Focusing on disability equity and inclusion;
- Strengthening school partnerships; and
- Enhancing Boy & Girls Club Northern Indiana Corridor’s (BGCNIC) ability to provide a safe, equitable, and accommodating environment to all youths served.
Through the grant, BGCNIC also provided stipends for two master’s level graduate students pursuing degrees in counseling and social work.
Impact
The new Associate Director helps create a safer, more equitable, and more accommodating environment for youths served by BGCNIC and increases efforts to provide preventative and early intervention to youth in need
The master’s level graduate students increase the supply of mental health services while expanding the counseling and social work workforce pipeline
