The Anthem Foundation is emphasizing programs that promote equity in mental health, particularly for people with substance use disorders.
Donor Name: Anthem Foundation
State: California, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/31/2022
Details:
Type of Programs Anthem Foundation will be considering:
- National programs promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change.
- Local programs in California, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Virginia that support socially vulnerable populations with relevant interventions.
Goals
- Prevention & Early Interventions: Promote positive youth and family development of protective factors and reduce risk factors that lead to depression and substance use through evidence-based programs. Examples of such programs include, but are not limited to, social-emotional learning (SEL) assessments and Strengthening Families Program.
- Treatment: Crisis Response, Post Crisis Intervention & Long-Term Intervention to reduce the impact of mental health and substance use disorder.
- Community Support & Recovery: Create more access and reduce barriers to trauma-informed approaches rooted in equity and implement harm reduction strategies to promote lifelong recovery
Successful grant applications should include methodology, including critical milestones, for tracking to specific metrics such as:
- Prevention
- Percentage of students showing healthy development of attitude, knowledge, and skills
- Percentage reduction of multiple risk factors for later alcohol and drug abuse, mental health concern, and delinquency
- Percentage improvement of developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive competencies
- Reduction of ER utilization for preventable SUD-related incidents
- Treatment
- Percentage of individuals adhering to Medically Assisted Treatments compared to baseline
- Percentage of individuals receiving alcohol and/or other substance dependence treatments compared to baseline
- Community Support & Recovery
- Percentage of individuals receiving follow-up support after diagnosis of mental illness or substance use and/or after Emergency Department visit or hospitalization
- Percentage of individuals employed 6-months post treatment compared to baseline
- Reduction of fatal or nonfatal overdose rate compared to baseline
- Reduction of alcohol related deaths compared to baseline
- Percentage improvement in Addiction Treatment Gap addressed via increased patient access to care or increase in skills or training of healthcare professionals through interventions such as Motivation Enhancement
- Percentage reduction of infectious disease transmission among people who use drugs
- Long-term Support
- Percentage of individuals on long-term opioids receiving annual monitoring compared to baseline
- Percentage of individuals in treatment and recovery with quality recovery housing
Successful proposals will also incorporate process and outcome measures in one or more of the areas below:
- Health Equity
- Support communities of color
- Support socially vulnerable individuals
- Provide culturally relevant interventions
- Whole-person Care
- Understanding of health-related social needs of population being served
- Transportation
- Housing instability and homelessness
- Employment
- Interventions that are relevant to population being served
- Builds trust through programming that considers unique needs of the individuals served by the program
- Creates innovate solutions for Substance Use Disorder treatment options and harm reduction services
- Collaborations that focus on meeting the needs of the local community
- Community Health Centers/FQHCs
- Community/Faith-based organizations
- Social recovery models leveraging the strengths of community organizations and evolves a recovery ecosystem
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet all of the following eligibility criteria for consideration:
- Show proof of status as a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization within one of the following subsections of the Internal Revenue Code:
- 170(B)(1)(a)(vi) — Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- 509(A)(2) — Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes
- 509(A)(3) — Organizations operated solely for the benefit of and in conjunction with other exempt organizations, typically other public charities
- 509(a)(3) — Type I
- 509(a)(3) — Type II
- 509(a)(3) — Type III functionally integrated
- Clearly define key measures and accountability standard, including key milestones; and
- Track and record long-term outcomes of program effectiveness and sustainable change
For more information, visit Anthem Foundation.
