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Coruja Educação

nefproducoes — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:40:52 +0000

The ABCD Charitable Trust invested in the creation Coruja Educação, assuming a 30% stake. A social enterprise whose objective was to promote specialized teaching, Coruja Educação developed a pedagogical methodology to support the learning of the Portuguese language and mathematics. This evaluation-based methodology provides a precise identification of a child’s stage in the learning process and the development of specific materials. After reaching thousands of students, mainly through association with Partners of Education and Pearson, the project was completed, and all material was transferred to the ABCD Institute, also funded by the ABCD Trust.

Goia Clinic (CAISM Vila Mariana)

nefproducoes — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:37:36 +0000

The ABCD Charitable Trust made a seed investment for creation of the Goia Clinic, which provides mental health services to the population as support for the activities of the Center for Integrated Mental Health Care (CAISM Vila Mariana), in the Department of Psychiatry of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), in the state capital. The project, led by psychiatrist Jair Mari, professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry of the Paulista School of Medicine (Unifesp), brings together professionals affiliated with the institution who are specialized in innovative treatments for those mental disorders resistant to conventional treatment.

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Laboratory of Genetic Neurobiology, Johns Hopkins University

nefproducoes — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:32:19 +0000

Since 2016, the ABCD Charitable Trust has supported the Laboratory of Genetic Neurobiology, a research unit headed by psychiatrist, professor and researcher Russell L. Margolis, affiliated with the Division of Neurobiology of the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States.The ABCD Trust partially funds the innovative research strategy of the Margolis team, exploring some of the most difficult questions posed by schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases. As specific objectives, the laboratory’s work aims in the short term to discover mechanisms that can lead to neurological diseases and to develop treatment strategies for diseases caused by the mutation of a single gene studied by the group in the medium-term. Its long-range goal is to apply learnings from studying these relatively simpler diseases to more complicated disorders, such as schizophrenia. At the same time, the laboratory called on support from the ABCD Trust to advance its research on improving care to persons with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, as well to better understand these diseases for development of more effective interventions.

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Instituto Pró-Saber SP: Routine activities

nefproducoes — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:20:09 +0000

Following its donation to the Pro-Saber SP Institute in the first year of the pandemic, the ABCD Charitable Trust renewed its support in 2021. This time, Pró-Saber SP used the amount to maintain the organization’s routine upkeep in the community of Paraisópolis, including the work of the Pró Ler & Brincar Program and the Pró-Saber SP Library.

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Ame Sua Mente Institute

nefproducoes — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:20:04 +0000

The Ame Your Mind Institute is a non-governmental organization founded in 2018 by specialists and researchers affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). Their objective is to explore how to promote mental health in the school environment while also contributing to the scientific and technical knowledge base in order to educate and raise awareness in Brazilian society. The ABCD Charitable Trust made a seed investment in 2018 to help create the institute.

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ABCD Institute

nefproducoes — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:19:52 +0000

Founded in 2009, iABCD is a Brazilian non-profit institution dedicated to the cause of dyslexia. It works in three main areas: advocacy; specialized diagnosis and follow-up; and education.
Advocacy – working for better support from society and public policies. This led to the creation of a guidebook for parents with children with dyslexia, to help them in starting associations and support groups, as well as approval of Law No. 14,254/2021.
Diagnosis and care – through a call for proposals, ABCD selected five projects (four of them linked to public universities) to build into leading centers on specific learning disorders. This allowed already existing projects to undergo a process of professionalization and promotion.
Education (teachers): the Todos Aprendem project, executed in partnership with educational organizations and municipal and state departments of education, promoted continued training to public school teachers in 2014. The following year, the course moved into an online format, expanding its reach. In addition, iABCD created the online course “Understanding Dyslexia”, aimed at persons with dyslexia, family members, and those interested in the topic.
Education (students): given the high rate of functional illiteracy in the country, estimated at 30%, the iABCD expanded the idea of directly supporting the literacy of children with learning disabilities. In 2019, it launched EduEdu, a free app with personalized activities on phonological awareness, alphabetic writing and reading system.
Pandemic: During the Covid-19 pandemic, EduEdu became an important tool during remote teaching. In addition to activities for printing, iABCD invested in digital activities and in the Socioemotional Space (in partnership with the Ame Sua Mente Institute), also in 2020. The following year, EduEdu continued to expand digital activities and created, with funding from Cisco, the Dyslexia Space, which provides a test for signs of dyslexia developed in partnership with the Federal University of Rio Grande Norte (UFRN). Also during the first two years of the pandemic, iABCD launched two books on specific learning disorders aimed at education professionals, held a cycle of online lectures during Dyslexia Week and conducted the study “Profile of Specific Learning Disorder in Brazil: Costs for families and Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic” with Cisco’s support. Already reaping results of its actions, iABCD now broadens its vision of helping ALL children with literacy difficulties, in the search to reduce the social, economic, and health barriers imposed on learning in Brazil

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