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Center for Health and Social Research gets grant
Buffalo State cited as important player in West Side neighborhoods
By Katie Anderson
On September 26, 2012
Both the West Side and campus communities are celebrating after the Center for Health and Social
Research received a $625,000 grant that the West Side Youth Development Coalition will use to make
the West Side a drug-free community.
The celebration began Monday at West Side Community Services on Vermont Street when several
college faculty members, community leaders and public officials came together for a kick-off event.
Despite recent violence on the West Side, including the shooting of a Buffalo State student, an optimistic
attitude filled the room as members of the coalition, joined by United States Attorney for the Western
District of New York William Hochul and Buffalo Common Council members David Rivera and David
Franczyk expressed their pride in the college as well as the West Side community for securing the grant.
"I too am a product of Buffalo State," Franczyk said. "The kind of work Buffalo State is doing with this
grant gives us hope."
"This is a great day for the West Side," Rivera said.
The Drug Free Communities Program administers grants to different communities in the efforts
to reduce substance abuse among young people within each community. The West Side Youth
Development Coalition is determined to do just that.
According to its website, the CHSR has received over $10 million in awards and grants from private and
federally funded agencies since 1997, when the center opened.
Hochul said that an essential part of this drug-free community project is the combined effort of
community members to work together.
"It's the ability to work together as we see law enforcement here, academia, community groups,
healthcare professionals, even recent graduate students from Buffalo State's criminal justice program,"
he said. "We really can make, not just the West Side but all of Western New York a place that we will be
proud of."
Hochul conveyed his thankfulness to all the people who contributed to the grant process.
"This is only day one. For the next five years I have no doubt we'll be celebrating many successes
together," he said. "I thank you in advance for your continuing efforts and participation in this whole
process."
William Wieczorek, director of CHSR, said that he is also appreciative of all the supporters who helped
secure the funding to achieve this goal.
"We really started focusing on the drug, crime and violence on the West Side," he said. "We can't say
enough of what this (grant) means."
Katie Anderson can be reached by email at Anderson.record@live.com.
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