Grant Champions & Causes

Rye Youth Council partners with families, schools, healthcare providers, businesses and government to promote social-emotional learning, resilience, and mental well-being in youth through accessible programs and services. RYC’s vision is to help every child develop the skills to navigate challenges impacting mental health. The PYP grant will help expand critical mental health services including the RYC Restore program, which has already provided over 1,450 therapy sessions and weekly counseling for more than 159 youth — 30% of whom received services at no cost. This funding will enable RYC to increase its capacity to serve more young people through one-on-one counseling, launch new group counseling services, and expand its highly successful Peer-to-Peer Depression Awareness & Suicide Prevention Program (P2P), a partnership with the University of Michigan.

Meals on Main Street‘s mission is to eliminate food insecurity wherever they find it by providing high-quality food with dignity and respect.  Through a combination of ‘Mobile Food Trucks’ and ‘Strategic Food Hubs’ to supplement the work of Westchester County pantries and soup kitchens to deliver recovered food and farm-fresh produce to families in need where they live. The PYP grant will be used towards the purchase of a commercial blast chiller for the new Mount Kisco “Community Kitchen” which transforms freshly prepared meals into a frozen state that is both adequate for transport, while maintaining the nutritional integrity of the meal.