The Salt Lake County Health Department is requesting applications for Youth groups in Salt Lake County to engage in advocacy efforts to promote healthy youth.
Donor Name: Salt Lake County Health Department
State: Utah
County: Salt Lake County (UT)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Contract funds may be spent on advertising, speaker fees, training, mileage, supplies, venue, food, membership fees, small amounts of personnel, printing, educational materials, and incentives.
To support recipient projects, SLCoHD will:
- Provide technical assistance, which may include but is not limited to coaching and training around advocacy, public speaking, events, risk and protective factors, etc
- Provide the required trainings
- Assist youth groups to develop eligible projects
- Attend occasional youth group meetings
- Connect youth groups to appropriate public health resources and services
- Other support services, as needed.
Funding Information
- Each recipient will receive $20,000 to support advocacy projects selected through this grant
- Applicants may also receive additional funding for a minimum of 2 adults and 5 youth to attend the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions (CADCA) Forum in February 2-5, 2026.
Grant Period
The 2025-2026 school year.
Examples of Projects
Youth groups may choose or adapt a project from this list, or they may design and develop their own project that follows project requirements:
- Research a specific community health issue and organize and implement an event (such as a decision-maker dinner or townhall meeting) or campaign (such as a social media campaign or letter-writing campaign) around the issue, then follow up with presentations, trainings, or meetings with key stakeholders (such as decision-makers and elected officials)
- Become trained in the CATCH My Breath curriculum (a youth vaping prevention program) and teach a variety of other youth (youth groups, school assemblies, after school programs, etc.) about the dangers and harms of vaping
- Learn the Social Development Strategy (SDS), conduct train-the-trainer sessions with peers, and institute an SDS campaign school or community-wide.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must not have been awarded Youth Advocacy Grant Initiative (YAGI) funding in the previous grant year
- Applicants must be a youth group as outlined below:
- Applicant youth groups must be associated with a legal entity that is able to accept and manage grant funds. Examples of legal entities eligible for funding include schools, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply. If a youth group does not have legal status and ability to manage grant funds, they may work with a sponsoring fiscal agency that applies on the youth group’s behalf and manages grant funds and contract compliance
- This funding is meant to support existing youth groups and not to create a new group. Youth groups must be already formed at time of application
- Youth groups must consist of at least five (5) youth, ages 14-24 years old, who live in Salt Lake County
- Although applicants do not have to be a school-based organization, youth groups that recruit students from Title I schools will be given priority.
For more information, visit SLCoHD.
