Life is Precious TM

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Summary

Life Is Precious employs innovative, culturally-tailored services to prevent suicide among Latina teens in New York City.

How You Can Help

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$10 - Provides one girl with art supplies for one week
$15 - Provides one girl with one hour of tutoring
$35 - Provides one hour of creative arts therapy
$100 - Provides two hours of creative arts therapy and two hours of tutoring each

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Received $6,855 from 85 donations from people like:

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Adam Szczepanski

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

One in six Latina teenage girls in the United States will attempt suicide; in New York City the rate is even higher than the national average. Life is Precious compliments traditional outpatient mental health services by addressing the needs of girls age 12-16 and their families for culturally competant, family-centered youth development services, case management, educational enrichment and mentoring.

Activities

Life is Precious provides girls and their families culturally-relevant and creative art therapy, tutoring and mentoring designed to prevent suicide, improve family function and advance career outlooks for girls

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $6,855
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $43,145
Total Funding Goal: $50,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

•Reduction - in suicide/suicide attempts •Replication - easily reproduced, innovative treatment model that addresses a documented crisis that has eluded successful treatment through traditional community and psychiatric-based approaches

Project Message

Project maximizes Latina teens individual strengths as well as family and Latino Community to reduce risks of suicide
- Dr. Rosa M. Gil, President and CEO

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Adam Szczepanski
Development Manager
214 West 29 Street, 8th floor
New York, New York 10001
United States
212-219-1618
Email:

Project Sponsor

Adam Szczepanski

Organization

Comunilife, Inc
214 w. 29th St.
New York City, NY 10001
United States
212-219-1618
http://www.comunilife.org

Learn more about Comunilife, Inc and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Children.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 3, 2009

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