PARTNERS
Virtues Matters
A global network of educators, leaders, youth, and community members uplifting the best in themselves and others with strategies, experiences, and tools for restored wellbeing.
Arts for Learning Maryland
A nonprofit organization devoted to enriching the lives and education of Maryland's youth through educational and culturally diverse arts programs. Through Arts for Learning, professional teaching artists from all disciplines partner with educators, schools, and school districts to provide, on average, over 300,000 hours of learning in, through, and about the arts to more than 185,000 Maryland students annually.
Bon Secours Community Works
For more than a century, Bon Secours has been caring for those in need and working to build healthy communities in Baltimore. They are passionate about their neighbors and driven by their core values of compassion, stewardship and service. At the heart of their work is a commitment to collaboration and long-term relationship building. They work side-by-side with residents and local leaders to achieve long-lasting positive outcomes.
Roberta’s House
Roberta’s House is a safe place where children, teens and adults discover that they are not alone in their grief. Children with their families share their feelings, memories and experiences in an atmosphere of acceptance with the love and support of trained volunteers.
The volunteers of Roberta’s house, along with a staff of professionals, assist children, teens and adults on how to experience and express their feelings safely and in a healthy manner. The Children work in small age appropriate groups utilizing creative activities to identify feelings and needs. The Adults share in groups and are given resources to support them in their journey. By working through the necessary grief task and understanding the essential needs of a child’s grief, it allows families to support each other and communicate more effectively.
Kaiser Permanente
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University created the JHU Innovation Fund for Community Safety, a four-year, $6 million commitment to support innovative, community-led programs designed to curb violence. The fund, which builds on the university’s longstanding commitment to helping to reduce violent crime in Baltimore, supports both new programs and the expansion of existing ones. On June 30, they announced the Fund’s nine grantees.
They believe that important solutions to public safety for the Baltimore community must come from the community and be implemented by city residents, with institutions like Johns Hopkins as active partners.