Grantee HealthySteps Featured on PBS NewsHour

December 21, 2020

On December 17, 2020, PBS NewsHour highlighted Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Early Childhood grantee HealthySteps as a model of adverse childhood experience (ACE) prevention.

NewsHour’s report, titled “Invisible Scars: America’s Childhood Trauma Crisis”, featured a first-hand look at how HealthySteps prevents and mitigates the effects of ACEs, a silent epidemic in our country that disproportionally affects communities of color.

View the piece to learn more about how HealthySteps provides medical, mental health, and social services to children and families across the country.

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Funding Opportunities

The EAJK Fund currently has one open funding opportunity. The Klingenstein-Simons Neuroscience Fellowship for early career investigators engaged in basic or clinical neuroscience research. Application portal opens annually on October 1 and closes on February 15.

Neuroscience Fellowship

The KTGF currently has three open funding opportunities.

The first is the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship, which supports post-doctoral candidates investigating child and adolescent ADHD and depression. Application portal opens annually on October 1 and closes on January 10.

The second funding opportunity is the Medical Student Fellowship Program inviting medical schools to submit applications for consideration to join its Medical Student Fellowship Program. Application portal opens on January 8, 2024 and closes on April 8, 2024.

The third funding opportunity is the Transformation of Mental Health Care, focused on improving access to high quality mental health care for children and adolescents. Application portal opens annually on November 1 and closes on January 15.

Fellowship Program

Medical Student Fellowship Program

Transformation of Mental Health Care

The SHDF currently has one open funding opportunity, its Patricia D. Klingenstein Grants Program, which promotes Maine children’s health by providing grants ranging from $3,000 to $15,000 to organizations serving Maine’s underserved, low-income children. Application portal opens annually on April 15 and closes on May 31.

Patricia D. Klingenstein Grants Program