Grantmaking is a key step in realizing the Foundation’s vision of a future where behavioral health is understood, supported, and accepted. Staunton Farm Foundation seeks proposals that use evidence-based models, emphasize best practices, provide measurable outcomes, and eliminate negative stereotypes associated with behavioral illnesses....
The path to mental wellness isn’t a one-size-fits-all. While traditional talk therapy may work wonders for many, others find healing in more creative ways by utilizing arts forms like dance, painting, drama, and my personal favorite, music therapy....
Pittsburgh Union Progress - From the beginning of her career, Monique Jackson has been passionate about children’s services and equitable mental health care for all, especially those from underserved communities. In her new position as Staunton Farm Foundation executive director, she will be able to advance that work...
Pittsburgh Business Times - The Staunton Farm Foundation, a downtown-based organization that focuses on providing grants to promote mental health and wellness, has named a new executive director. Monique Jackson, who had previously served as chief operating officer at FamilyLinks, now leads the foundation, taking over...
While the person who serves as Staunton Farm Foundation’s executive director has changed, the mission and vision of our organization remain the same. I am excited about what the future holds for the Foundation and our partners in the ten southwestern Pennsylvania counties we serve....
Staunton Farm Foundation recognizes the importance of building capacity to maintain optimal services and long-term sustainability of mental health and substance use programs....
The opening of a 40-bed recovery center in the Mon Valley caps the 33-year career of First Step’s founder and marks the rebound of an organization that clashed with the mayor and scraped bottom financially....
I’d like to express a big thank you to the Staunton Farm Foundation Board of Directors (old and new), to Bethany Hemingway (Staunton Farm’s Senior Program Officer), and to you, our stakeholders, friends, colleagues, grantee partners, and the behavioral health community....
The Leader Times - Grant to enhance School Based Counseling Program for students and families in the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Greensburg. Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Staunton Farm Foundation, a Pittsburgh based charitable...
Philanthropy News Digest - The Staunton Farm Foundation in Pittsburgh has awarded 19 grants totaling $1.2 million across southwestern Pennsylvania in support of nonprofit efforts to expand access to mental health and substance use disorder programming, Pittsburgh Union Progress reports. First-time recipient organizations and agencies working across Allegheny, Beaver, Butler,...