| Program Overview:
In June of 2001, Turn 2 Us was created as a collaborative effort between
Public School 128M of Washington Heights, Morgan Stanley's Children's
Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, and New York Yankee’s Derek
Jeter Turn 2 Foundation in order to provide preventive mental health
services within the school setting to children at risk. In 2007, the
Turn 2 Us model was piloted at a 2nd school –PS4M.
Mission and Goals:
Our mission is to enable our youth to internalize healthy lifestyles
through a variety of physical and psycho-educational preventive interventions.
These interventions are aimed to prevent at-risk behaviors which research
indicates may lead to health and mental health related issues, such
as early onset diabetes, obesity, use of drugs or alcohol, truancy
and drop out.
Goals are to:
• Provide school wide mental health promotion and secondary
prevention services to at-risk students in elementary schools;
• Improve school communities’ literacy regarding mental
health, well-being and academic/social success;
• Document the effectiveness of this model program
Number of people served per year:
Intensive: 220 students, less intense: 2 school communities (1400
children, parents and school staff)
Outcomes:
Increased: Attendance; Standardized Test Scores
Improved: Academic + Social Performance; General Self Esteem
Decreased: Unscheduled Guidance Visits & Suspensions
Partners:
• New York City Public Schools 4, 128, 132, 173, 325, 192, 28,
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• Parents
• Turn 2 Foundation
• Samburg Foundation
• Columbia University: Community Pediatrics; Center for Family
Medicine; and Mailman School of Public Health
• Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian
• Teachers College
• NYC Department of Education
• NYC Department of Health - School Health
• NY Road Runners Foundation
• Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Pediatrics
• CARING: Children At Risk in a New Generation
• Police Athletic League
• 34th Precinct
Contact Information:
Program Manager
Evelyn Montanez, PhD, R-LCSW
Phone: (917) 414-4273
Fax: (212) 305-8819
Email: montaev@nyp.org
Faculty Lead/Medical Director
Dodi Meyer MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Phone: 212-305-6227
Email: ddm11@columbia.edu
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