Charities

The Todd Ouida Children's Foundation currently provides support to the following:


 


Adoption House
Provides children in New Jersey with an opportunity to address their emotions with both their natural and adoptive families in a home-like environment while preparing for adoption.

Alliance of Psychoanalytic Schools
An association of preschools with a deep interest in primary prevention and in assisting children facing extra emotional challenges at a formative time in their lives.

Association for Child Psychoanalysis
Promotes psychoanalytic treatment for children and has instituted a grants program for families in need.

Bergen County Summer Campership Fund
A public-private venture in which children of low-income working families are given the opportunity to attend summer day camp.

Bergen Rainbow Youth
A social support group providing a safe and welcoming environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth, ages 14 – 21.

Camp Haze
Week-long camping experience for children who lost a loved one on September 11th, 2001.

Center for Food Action in New Jersey
Fights hunger and homelessness with emergency food, housing and utility assistance, counseling and advocacy.

Center for Preventive Psychiatry
Provides early intervention and treatment of emotional and psychiatric disorders in young children, working closely with family, school and other community resources.

Childhood Anxiety Network: Selective Mutism Group
Families and professionals share experiences and knowledge to promote public awareness, support research and educate about Selective Mutism, and to speak out for children who can't speak for themselves.

Children's Aid and Family Services
Multiple programs based on the belief that children need nurturing, healthy families in supportive communities to thrive.

Children's Aid Society
On the front lines of services to New York City's underserved children and families, providing cutting-edge programs in community centers, camps, public schools, family courts and even in children's own homes.

Community FoodBank of New Jersey-Kids Division
Provides meals and snacks to children in after-school and day care programs around the state through their Kids Cafes, and works to get clothes and school supplies to the needy through their Kids Closet and SHOPA Kids in Need Center.

Elaine Clark Center for Exceptional Children
A full service Early Intervention Center providing services for children with special needs in an inclusive environment.

Eva's Village Family Shelter
Provides food and shelter for mothers with children and prepares clients for independent living in their own apartments.

Fresh Air Fund
Sends children on visits with volunteer host families through the Friendly Town program and operates five camps in upstate New York. Also operates a year-round Career Awareness Program for inner-city youths.

Healthy Families of Bergen County
Provides education and support services to new and expectant parents at risk for child abuse and neglect.

Heifer International Kids 2 Kids
Strives to bring the benefits of goats (high quality milk and prolific breeding) to the world’s poorest children—especially orphans.

Holley Child Care and Development Center
A 60-bed residential treatment facility serving the needs of children ages 6-12 who are seriously emotionally disturbed as a result of abuse, neglect, poverty or abandonment. Residential treatment at Holley is based on intensive therapy.

Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health
Provides clinical services for infants/preschool children and their caregivers; professional training in infant and preschool mental health; and research opportunities to determine the affects of early intervention on relationships.

Interreligous Fellowship for the Homeless of Bergen County
Binds together the religious communities of Bergen County to work to alleviate the plight of homeless and needy people.

Journeys Program of Valley Hospice Support groups facilitated by art therapists for young children and adolescents affected by the death or serious illness of a loved one.

Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation
Raises and distributes funds for the most promising research into the causes, treatments and prevention of early-onset bipolar disorder..

Karen Horney Clinic
Offers low-cost psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic services and, in association with the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, provides training opportunities for advanced mental health professionals.

Menninger Clinic
A national specialty psychiatric and behavioral hospital, offering diagnostic and treatment programs for children, adolescents, and adults.

New York Psychoanalytic Institute Treatment Center
Offers psychoanalytic treatment at sliding scale fees to people who are otherwise unable to afford such intensive treatment and refers patients who can benefit from psychoanalysis to candidates who are seeking advanced training in the practice of psychoanalysis.

Richmond Art Center
A community center and arts provider whose aim is to be accessible to everyone and provide the healing and education that can only be found in expressing oneself through art making. Provides scholarships and tour programs for at-risk youth.

Therapeutic Learning Center
Provides early intervention to children ages 3 to 6 years old who experience emotional difficulties.

U.S. Fund for UNICEF
Promotes the survival, protection, and development of all children worldwide through fundraising, advocacy, and education.

University of Michigan Depression Center
Develops, disseminates, and advances state-of-the-art science, education, treatment and prevention strategies for clinical depression.