Telligen Community Initiative wants to fund programs and nonprofits that address social determinants that impact health and enhance equity, that are making healthcare education more accessible, and that are fostering innovation.
Donor Name: Telligen Community Initiative
State: Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy):
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) funding for 2022 will continue to focus on improving the health of communities within the context of specific funding priority areas.
These priority areas were identified to define TCI’s community responsive grant programming more specifically, to produce more defined themes within the priority areas, and to enhance the portability and replication potential of similarly themed projects across Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Oklahoma communities.
They continue to believe in multiple funding mechanisms that try to meet applicants where they are in their work and evolution. This could encompass multiple themes or forms of support:
- First-dollar, programmatic, or seed funding to nonprofit organizations or governmental entities is a powerful contribution TCI can make to positively impact health status.
- This funding can also be positioned to provide enhancing core support for critical work of an organization in strong alignment with the funding priorities.
- Expansion or spread of already impactful and successful approaches you are doing to other populations or geography.
- This funding could also be evaluated by a potential applicant to support meaningful capacity building of an organization to better deliver its work or mission that strongly aligns with TCI funding priorities.
TCI seeks to support projects that are at the intersection of and connect clinical and community-based work; build on collaborations to address underserved populations and recognize the role of the social determinants of health within the design of project plans and proposal development. They want to meet you where your work is currently positioned and contribute to the successful advancement of your mission.
Funding Priorities
Social Determinants of Health: The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. The social determinants of health can be most responsible for resulting health inequities in individual and population health. TCI believes in advancing health equity and achieving this requires novel approaches to address positively the social determinants of health. The interrelationships of social determinants of health factors and the connection to health is a priority are for TCI support.
- Advance patient navigation, case management and/or engagement with other community, wrap-around services. TCI strongly views health as more than what happens in a purely clinical setting and supports the need for traditional health settings to connect to and with often fragmented approaches to health and social service integration.
- Improve the availability or resources to meet essential needs (safe housing, healthy foods, early childhood education, transportation).
- Promote housing and health intersection solutions to strengthen housing equity/ affordability, supportive housing tailored to vulnerable populations, tenant/ resident advocacy, or other solutions to advance homelessness prevention.
- Support work for a higher-performing public health system that strives for better access, improved quality, or efficiency – particularly focused on the most vulnerable members of the population through innovative programming or resourcing collaborative work with non-health sectors or social service stakeholders (e.g., integrated referral or prescriptions to community resources to better connect the traditional health sector to other community supports).
- Support access and use of mass media and emerging technologies (cell phones, Internet, social media, community referral platforms) for health-promoting purposes.
- Support responses to food insecurity including mobile clinics, medically tailored food delivery or increased food resource needs due to economic challenges.
Healthcare Workforce Development: TCI believes the challenges of healthcare workforce shortages and an aging population (healthcare workforce and general public) will require progressive and a fundamental reshaping of the way in which patient care is delivered, especially for primary care. These challenges have been compounded by the global pandemic. TCI envisions change in the point of care and the roles of the interdisciplinary direct care team being factored into the needs of the future healthcare workforce.
- Revive job-training and work-based learning programs, taking advantage of existing relationships between local care settings, schools, and community colleges with emphasis on opportunities to facilitate innovative approaches, such as remote/telehealth learning and integrative healthcare delivery models.
- Facilitate opportunities for progressive education and practice to allow individuals to grow into advancing healthcare roles through scholarships or subsidized programs that are not restrictive to employment setting.
- Recruit non-traditional students into healthcare tracks, taking advantage of the potential and value of multigenerational and diverse ability workforce and creating adaptive, multilevel pathways to enter the field.
- Seek and aid recruitment and training of bilingual/multi-lingual healthcare professionals, including employer facilitated and paid training (including health literacy competencies for native speakers) and appropriate reimbursement for healthcare interpreters and community health workers and health navigators.
- Support pilot testing of new workforce models, exploring opportunities to increase workforce access and develop roles adaptive for rural settings while ensuring quality of healthcare personnel.
- Enhance the vast potential and value of Area Health Education Center (AHEC) as opportunities to further support training and development programs, scholarship opportunities, and facilitate successful career placements for health professionals in rural and underserved communities.
- Improve quality and number of Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) and direct care worker programs, evaluating current landscape of programs; successful completion, competencies, and placement/retention rates; and avenues to register and report credentialing.
- Leverage telehealth and teledental opportunities to aid recruitment of healthcare providers desiring more flexible work environments and mitigate barriers to physical recruitment of providers to rural communities.
- Incorporate mental wellness and professional resiliency skills and support into residency and training programs to equip individuals with awareness, resources, and empowerment to prevent and mitigate burnout at career start. Address mental health stigma and burnout culture, fostering access and encouraging utilization of mental wellness supports and working to design environments and practices that empower wellness and self-care to preserve the existing health workforce.
- Consider opportunities to create “career ladder” development programs that aid interested employees in advancing their healthcare careers from entry-level, infield growth, and advanced roles within the healthcare organization.
- Support efforts to expand mental health workforce development and solutioning in creative educational and staffing manners.
Funding Information
Applications from all four (4) states will function with a per grant request maximum of $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- To request a grant, your organization must be a recognized as a federally tax-exempt section 501(c) (3) charitable organization, an accredited school, or a public/ governmental agency located in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, or Oklahoma.
- Note: a public agency is an organization established and primarily funded by a unit of government. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department, or state governmental agency. Note that TCI does not fund organizations with a pending 501(c)(3) status.
For more information, visit Telligen Community Initiative.
