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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow... Families On The Move

 

Our Mission

Families On The Move of New York City, Inc. (FOTM) is a citywide family-run organization that advocates for the rights and full participation to all children and families who have experienced or are experiencing learning, behavioral, emotional, mental wellness, and/or substance use challenges with the goal to promote health and wellness across the Health and Behavioral Health Systems.

SERVING FAMILIES FROM THE BRONX, BROOKLYN, QUEENS, MANHATTAN, AND STATEN ISLAND

Promoting Mental Health Among Families

Vision

All families of children and youth who have emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges will always get the help and support that they need.


Goals

  • Provide up-to-date information about “state of the art care” and evidenced based practices to families and youth with emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges.
  • Provide support and advocacy with and for these families and youth to ensure that they receive the best possible care.
  • Increase access to a full range of quality services and to be a catalyst for change in the systems that serve them.
  • Advocate for NYC families and youth in public forums for comprehensive community based, culturally competent, family driven and child centered services.


Core Values

  • Family driven goals are honored.
  • Our members respect and honor difference.
  • We use our experience as family members to create more responsive systems of care for families, children and youth.
  • True partnerships are built between families and providers through shared power.
  • There is strength in unity.



Finances

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990-2019 (pdf)Download

History

In May 2002 a group of family members of children who have emotional, behavioral, and or mental health challenges, with multiple system involvement, got together during a breakout session at a Families Together of New York State Conference in Albany, NY. The purpose of the meeting was to fill a gap identified by families. That gap identified was the need for families to have their voice and concerns about service delivery represented in the city as well as Albany.


The group met for several months initially recruiting supporters from the Mental Health Association of NYC, Inc. (MHA), the Office of Mental Health (OMH), the Department Of Mental Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services (JBFCS), and current and past presidents from other family run organizations in Arizona and Washington, DC, since the foundation was established in the mental health system.


  • October 2003 – 13th annual family support conference – kick off for the brainchild/birth of Families On the Move. Family members met with Ginny Wood, the grandmother of the family support movement, in a small room to discuss ways that the family voices could become unified representing families of children with special needs across the city.
  • It was at this meeting that a strategic plan was developed that considered both the positives and negatives that would confront the developmental process of starting the organization.
  • October 2004 – 19 family members came together as a planning committee at a work retreat at Mohonk. The name, mission, goals, objectives and work plan were developed and we were on our way. Funding for the development of Families On The Move was made possible by the NYC System of Care Grant.
  • June 2005 –Received the Employment Identification Number (EIN).


In a period of three years, the group had supporters discussing ways that family voices could become unified to represent families of children with special needs across the city. Working together the group developed a strategic plan taking into consideration the positives and negatives that would confront the developmental process of starting a family run organization. A group of 19 family members working diligently, over a weekend, developed the name, mission statement, goals, objectives and work plan for the organization culminating with the organization obtaining 501 (c) 3 status in October 2005.


  • January 2007 Planning ensued and a funding source was identified. The initial funding for the organization was made possible through the DOHMH, NYC System of Care, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant though MHA. This funding allowed Families On The Move of New York City, Inc. to open its first office.
  • Since then, FOTM has received several discretionary fund grants to provide parenting classes, contracts to provide Technical Assistance, supervision for community residence program advocates, develop trainings on engaging families of children /youth in residential placement, and currently has a direct multiple year contract with the State Office of Mental Health.

Meet Our Team

                   Euphemia Strauchn  – Chief Executive Officer



Arif Holmes – Human Resources/Operations Director

Carlton Banks – Case Management Peer Family Advocate

Cassidy Castro – Peer Youth Advocate

Christina Richburg – Family & Youth Program Director
Helen Nurse –  Director of Training & Development

Jacqueline Pittman – Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) Program Coordinator

Jamie B. Williams – Peer Family Advocate

Jazleen Garbutt – Peer Youth Advocate Coordinator

Julius E. Blake – Peer Youth Advocate

Latisha Williams – Case Management Peer Youth Advocate

Lisette Soto - Peer Youth Advocate

Natasha Moore – Family & Youth Program Coordinator

Olga Vazquez – Senior Family Support Liaison

Ralph Burgos – IT Consultant

Ravi Ramaswamy – Fiscal Consultant

Rokiea Munson – Peer Family Advocate

Sandrinia Clemons – Peer Family Advocate

Sandra Staggers – Outreach & Training Coordinator

Simone Richards – Administrative Coordinator

Tamica McAlpine – Peer Family Advocate

Tiffany Gray - Peer Family Advocate

Tina Gibbs – Associate Director/Compliance Officer

Vaden Bovell - Peer Youth Advocate

Vidya Ramaswamy – Accounting Manager


Our Board

Executive Board

Wanda Greene – Chair


Kathy Gardini – Vice Chair
Episcopal Health Services, Inc. (EHS)


Deborah Miller – Treasurer


Michele King - Secretary

Stapleton Union American Methodist Episcopal Church

Board Advisors

Anita Appel
Susan Thaler
Bernadine Meeks
Emanuel Bloomfield-Jones

Board Members

Robert Perkins
Vernon “Dyverse” Wooten
Romel Shuler

RueZalia Watkins
Patricia Walton 


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