Grantee Name
Community Health Action of Staten Island, Inc. / CHASI
Funding Area
Special Projects Fund
Publication Date
August 2016
Grant Amount
$37,500
Grant Date:
January 2014 – April 2015
The one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Sandy disaster was a particularly vulnerable period for some disaster survivors.
It was a time when people who had suffered loss and trauma were most likely to experience trigger events, which can contribute to the emergence or re-emergence of conditions such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and alcohol and substance use. NYHealth awarded the Community Health Action of Staten Island (CHASI) a grant to help identify residents of impacted communities on Staten Island who may be developing serious mental health and/or substance use conditions and connect them to appropriate and timely health care and mental health services.