The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), Behavioral Health Services Commission, announces the release of a Request for Applications (RFA) for planning grant (Cohort V) that will allow eligible applicants to engage in a comprehensive community-based strategic plan that will result in community-driven strategies to reduce underage drinking, youth marijuana use, health disparities, shared risk, and protective factors to produce sustainable systems change.
Donor Name: Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS)
State: Kansas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $15,050
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
This Kansas Prevention Collaborative-Community Initiative (KPCCI) is intended to reduce underage drinking, youth marijuana use, health disparities, shared risk, and protective factors and produce sustainable systems change. and prevent substance abuse in identified communities and enrich prevention efforts across the state through the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based strategies, and culturally competent prevention strategies.
The KPCCI Planning Grant is intended to reduce underage drinking, youth marijuana use, health disparities, shared risk, and protective factors, and produce sustainable systems change. Reduce and prevent substance abuse in identified communities and enrich prevention efforts across the state through the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based strategies, and culturally competent prevention strategies. The grant is intended for primary prevention only.
Utilizing funding and technical assistance, community coalitions will analyze local data that is contributing to substance abuse within their identified geographic area. Resources and technical assistance will be provided to review the local assessment profile, logic model, and action plan to address these issues using the five-step SPF process (i.e., assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation). This will also include reviewing plans for sustainability, cultural competence, and evaluation.
Funding Information
- Planning grants will be $15,050 per community for one-year grantees.
Timeframe
- July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services invites applications from private, nonprofit, and/or community organizations.
- Eligible applicants and their fiscal agents must be an existing community coalition or task force for at least the past six months and may include local government agencies, schools, public universities, and colleges, private and/or not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations based in the targeted community. Community coalitions shall be defined as a multiple sector partnership, mobilized at the local level to make their communities safer, healthier, and drug-free. Effective community coalitions must possess a stable and effective organizational structure with clearly defined roles, and responsibilities, and may include multiple geographic areas or school district boundaries that are efficiently and effectively able to work together (e.g., a rural, multi-county partnership).
- Existing Community Defined:
- An established coalition that is already formed and can prove they have existed at least 6 months prior to the RFA release date. They asked that documentation be submitted to demonstrate that you are an existing coalition, providing minutes, names of members, meetings, and general functional activities in place or plans in place for other work, etc. (Only send a copy of minutes for one month prior to December 2021)
- No group can be developed prior to the RFA by collaborating with others to meet the guidelines for the RFA, where no established work has not been done as a coalition earlier than 6 months.
For more information, visit KPCCI Substance Abuse Planning Grant.
