Community Connections of New York (CCNY) is a quality management and training organization that offers a wide range of research-based, cost-effective solutions to nonprofit and government agencies serving those working with the mental health, juvenile justice, and social service systems. We provide training, quality improvement and evaluation planning and design.
We imagined, designed, and implemented Arounja for families, youth, and service providers. If you would like discuss having a similar resource map for your community, please contact David Monroe, project manager for Arounja, or Heidi Milch, Executive Director of CCNY.
Erie County Department of Mental Health The Department of Mental Health oversees mental disability services for over 48,000 Erie County residents each month through contracts with 42 community based agencies, including the Erie County Medical Center and Erie County Departments of Senior Services, Social Services and Youth Services. The Department of Mental Health is administratively responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and monitoring programs of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation involving mental health, mental retardation-developmental disabilities, and alcohol and substance abuse services. A wide range of services and programs are provided within the City of Buffalo and fifteen municipalities throughout Erie County.
Gateway-Longview is a child and family service organization that has been providing care, counseling, and support to countless children and families since 1890.
Gateway and Longview were founded by the faithful focused on serving orphaned and abandoned children. Gateway was originally known as the Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Longview Niagara was originally named the Protestant Home for Unprotected Children. In 1996, the two organizations merged to become Gateway-Longview.
New Directions Youth and Family Services is a non-profit agency that helps children with emotional and behavioral problems, along with their families.
They offer more than 25 programs and services aiding residents throughout the State of New York.
In October 2004, a unit within Erie County Department of Mental Health was created (Family Voices Network of Erie County) to address the needs of children and youth (age 5-17) experiencing complex serious mental health challenges. Erie County implemented the “Wraparound Initiative” under Family Voices Network of Erie County. Family Voices Network is a collaboration of Departments of Social Services and Mental Health. We are a referral process for all children in the Erie County System of Care and one application is used to refer children to appropriate supports and services within the system and our community. Wraparound is the highest level of care offered in Erie County for children, youth and their families with mental health, behavioral health and social challenges.
The Families' Child Advocacy Network is a program that is designed, created and directed by families that are raising children with emotional, behavioral or social disabilities.
The Families' Child Advocacy Network is a network of Western New York families that help one another in getting their children the services that they need.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system and its largest and most comprehensive campus.
The School of Social Work is ranked in the top 20% among schools of social work nationally according to the most recent U.S. News and World Reports survey. Ranked among the very best schools in the country, The University at Buffalo School of Social Work was 6th among public research institutions in the northeast and 36th of 177 schools with graduate programs included in the survey.
The Oishei Foundation is Western New York’s largest private foundation with over $231 million in assets.
In addition to grantmaking, the Foundation is committed to devoting their time, people and networks to convening stakeholders around issues; initiating support and collaboration; sharing knowledge; building nonprofits' organizational capacity; and supporting the development of promising leaders in all communities and sectors.
Bear Code provides custom web application development for non-profits and commercial enterprises. In the non-profit sector, Bear Code has performed development projects for Overseas Vote Foundation, Vermont College of Fine Arts, AARP and the Meridian Institute. Bear Code's work for these organizations has been funded in part by Pew Charitable Trusts, Carnegie Foundation, The JEHT Foundation and the David & Lucille Packard Foundation. In the commercial realm, Bear Code has executed projects for Ford Motors, Boeing, ExxonMobile, FedEx and Blue Cross Blue Shield among others.
