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Recent Grants Awarded by the APF Committee

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

To develop a series of presentations for professionals working with foster children in Sonoma County on the application of psychoanalytic ideas - $2,000.

Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

To enable the design and implementation of a system of psychodynamic support for Jubilee JumpStart, a new child care and education facility for low-income families - $5,000.

Strategic Outreach to Families of all Reservists (SOFAR)

For a significant revision of "The SOFAR Guide for Helping Children and Youth Cope with the Deployment of a Parent in the Military Reserves." - $3,375.

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

To expand the reach of the Parent-Child Center to provide Play and Learn Groups beyond the middle class population which it has typically served - $2,000.

Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center

In support of a practice seminar titled "Getting Started, Staying Successful" to assist psychoanalytic candidates develop a competence for getting started in private practice - $1,000.

San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis

Pre-School Consultant Project of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society Child Development Program - $2,000.

Massachusetts General Hospital and J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D.

Transfer and archiving of the Berkeley Psychotherapy Research Project’s archive to Massachusetts General Hospital - $2,000.

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute

Library Outreach Program - $2,000.

Affiliate Council Scientific Paper Prize - $750

Children’s Psychological Health Center in San Francisco

Conduct a pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of My Katrina Story, a guided activity workbook that adults can use to help children identify, express, cope with, and begin to master the intense emotions and difficult coping tasks following catastrophic loss - $5,000.

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute

A pilot collaborative effort establishing mental health services within a pre-existing, community-based early childhood center, which will lay the groundwork for a comprehensive and cost-effective day care-based mental health treatment model - $2,000.

Allen Creek Preschool, Ann Arbor, MI

To support the Early Childhood Training Initiative, a new outreach program designed to nurture the growth of early childhood educators and day care workers through professional training, workshops, and consultations - $4,000.

9/11 Mothers and Young Children Project, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

Since November 2001, the project has been providing outreach, group counseling, and videotaped mother-child bonding consultations for women who were pregnant when widowed by the World Trade Center Disaster of September 11, 2001, for their infants born after the disaster, and for their older children - $5,000.

Catholic University of America

To support of the first phase of the development of the Washington D.C. Area Psychotherapy Practice Research Network - $2,000.

Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis

Support for a new outreach initiative, the Analytic Service to Adolescents Project (ASAP) at an alternative high school. The ASAP project strives to be a community intervention whose activities will help not only the high-risk students themselves, but also their families and teachers - $5,000.

Community Foundation of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles

For the development of an outreach program to validate the effectiveness of a new and innovative approach to working with parents - $5,000.

Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society

To support a community outreach workshop titled "Prejudice in Everyday Life" - $3,000.

International Association of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

To support psychoanalysts' participation in a study using mentalization and altruistic bystanding to change the school climate in a model Jamaican all-age school - $5,000.

Regina Pally, M.D.

To support an APsaA-sponsored symposium on mirror neurons held at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting - $2,000.

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

Support for a course "Freud's Models of the Mind" offered by the Stanford University Medical Center geared to medical students, residents, and undergraduates - $2,000.

RECENT GRANTS AWARDED BY THE APF COMMITTEE

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
To develop a series of presentations for professionals working with foster children in Sonoma County on the application of psychoanalytic ideas- $2,000.

Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
To enable the design and implementation of a system of psychodynamic support for Jubilee JumpStart, a new child care and education facility for low-income families - $5,000.

Strategic Outreach to Families of all Reservists (SOFAR)
For a significant revision of “The SOFAR Guide for Helping Children and Youth Cope with the Deployment of a Parent in the Military Reserves.” - $3,375.

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
To expand the reach of the Parent-Child Center to provide Play and Learn Groups beyond the middle class population which it has typically served - $2,000.

Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
In support of a practice seminar titled "Getting Started, Staying Successful" to assist psychoanalytic candidates develop a competence for getting started in private practice -
$1,000.

San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis
Pre-School Consultant Project of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society Child Development Program - $2,000.

Massachusetts General Hospital and J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D.
Transfer and archiving of the Berkeley Psychotherapy Research Project’s archive to Massachusetts General Hospital - $2,000.

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
Library Outreach Program - $2,000.

Affiliate Council Scientific Paper Prize - $750

Children’s Psychological Health Center in San Francisco
Conduct a pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of My Katrina Story, a guided activity workbook that adults can use to help children identify, express, cope with, and begin to master the intense emotions and difficult coping tasks following catastrophic loss - $5,000.

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
A pilot collaborative effort establishing mental health services within a pre-existing, community-based early childhood center, which will lay the groundwork for a comprehensive and cost-effective day care-based mental health treatment model - $2,000.

Allen Creek Preschool, Ann Arbor, MI
To support the Early Childhood Training Initiative, a new outreach program designed to nurture the growth of early childhood educators and day care workers through professional training, workshops, and consultations - $4,000.

9/11 Mothers and Young Children Project, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University
Since November 2001, the project has been providing outreach, group counseling, and videotaped mother-child bonding consultations for women who were pregnant when widowed by the World Trade Center Disaster of September 11, 2001, for their infants born after the disaster, and for their older children - $5,000.

Catholic University of America
To support of the first phase of the development of the Washington D.C. Area Psychotherapy Practice Research Network - $2,000.

Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Support for a new outreach initiative, the Analytic Service to Adolescents Project (ASAP) at an alternative high school. The ASAP project strives to be a community intervention whose activities will help not only the high-risk students themselves, but also their families and teachers - $5,000.

Community Foundation of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
For the development of an outreach program to validate the effectiveness of a new and innovative approach to working with parents - $5,000.

Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society
To support a community outreach workshop titled "Prejudice in Everyday Life" - $3,000.

International Association of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies
To support psychoanalysts' participation in a study using mentalization and altruistic bystanding to change the school climate in a model Jamaican all-age school - $5,000.

Regina Pally, M.D.
To support an APsaA-sponsored symposium on mirror neurons held at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting - $2,000.

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Support for a course "Freud's Models of the Mind" offered by the Stanford University Medical Center geared to medical students, residents, and undergraduates - $2,000.