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Blue & You Foundation Awards $6M in Grants to Behavioral Health Programs

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The nonprofit Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier
Arkansas announced it has awarded $5.9 million in grants aimed at addressing mental health challenges, suicide and substance use among Arkansas children, teens and young adults.

The grants are part of a $10 million commitment initially announced by the Blue & You Foundation in 2019 to improve behavioral health in Arkansas, make resources more readily available and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health.

Grant recipients include:

  • UAMS: $1.6 million over four years to fund its Pathways to Wellness program, creating a virtual AR ConnectNow welcome center for youth and families containing mental health resources and expanding the Trauma Resource Initiative in Arkansas Schools.
  • UAMS: $714,809 over two years benefitting the Adolescent and Young Adult Addiction Treatment Program. The program will provide treatment options and prevention programs for young Arkansans with a focus on engaging parents in the recovery process.
  • The Wolfe Street Foundation: $850,927 over three years for the purpose of expanding substance use treatment resources to youth in 7th through 12th grades in Pulaski County by providing after-school programs, summertime programming and community initiatives, working with area schools, courts and behavioral healthcare providers.
  • The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – Arkansas Chapter: $900,000 over three years to expand its suicide prevention programs statewide through public schools, colleges, universities and community groups.
  • Immerse Arkansas: $1,418,252 over three years to provide mental health resources to young people in Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties who are either in foster care or aging out, adopted homeless or runaway and victims of trafficking. Funds will also be used to create a mentorship program for new mental health therapists.

The Blue & You Foundation is a charitable foundation established and funded by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to promote better health in the Natural State.

Since 2001, the Blue & You Foundation has awarded more than $58 million to nonprofits and governmental agencies in all 75 counties.

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