Insight Pt. 2: ACME's 130 Days of Giving, Heart Month, Housing Rights, Child Mental Health

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 8 p.m.

b'We bringing your all kinds of resources this morning. If you are a nonprofit working to ease hunger \\u2013 ACME Foundation has a grant for you. I speak with Dana Ward, Communications and Public Affairs Manager for ACME Markets about ACME\\u2019s 130 Days of Giving to mark the company\\u2019s 130th Anniversary. Local food organizations can apply for funding consideration now through February 12, 2021 by visiting http://acmemarketsfoundation.org and utilizing the invitation code ACME130.
The American Heart Association is offering grants to nonprofits in North Philly working to address health disparities. I speak to I speak to Raymond Guthrie Managing Director, Bernard J. Tyson Fund & AHA Social Impact Fund. For more information go to www.heart.org/en/bernard-j-tyson-fund. A virtual town hall event will be held on February 11, 2021, to gain community input and to help identify where additional support is needed to scale impact.
COVID 19, community violence and the social unrest of the past year not only impacts adults but children as well. I speak with Kamilah Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., a Medical Director at AmeriHealth Caritas about the mental health of children and teens and how we can support them. Here are some resources:
https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/index.html
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/child-and-adolescent-mental-health/index.shtml

First, there\\u2019s an upcoming live streamed event on housing discrimination especially in these COVID-19 times and it\\u2019s bilingual on February 10th 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. I speak to Adrian Garcia, Director of Fair Housing & Commercial Property Division for the PA Human Relations Commission.
https://www.facebook.com/PAHUMANRELATIONS
https://www.phrc.pa.gov/'