Trellis Foundation is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals (RFPs) to heightened concerns over students’ mental health and wellbeing and its effect on student outcomes.
Donor Name: Trellis Foundation
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $200,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Goals for this cohort are three-fold:
- Increased understanding by staff and/or faculty of student mental health and wellbeing needs at the organization, with a focus on specific student populations, such as specific racial/ethnic groups, etc.
- Better student outcomes—uptake of services and then increased success metrics down the line.
- Differentiation of student mental health and wellbeing services for specific student populations, such as by race/ethnicity, as needed.
Mental Health and Wellbeing – Potential Outcomes
Potential items may include:
- Increased use of current resources (measured by visits, appointments made, etc.)
- Increased referrals to mental health services providers in partnership with campus
- Continuous enrollment was maintained for students who accessed services
- Peer-referrals (student-to-student)
- Faculty/staff referrals (employee-to-student)
- Faculty/staff use of services
- Increased programming to raise awareness of issues and resources (number of programs, number of attendees, can it be tied to increase in usage)
- Assessment of current services (qualitative and quantitative methods used to identify potential for improvement or partnership development)
- Increased access to services through the development of partnerships with community-based organizations or public health agencies.
Funding Information
Trellis Foundation intends to award between 5 and 10 grants of up to $200,000 each through this RFP. Anticipate that the funding will be disbursed to grantees over a two-year timeframe, with work beginning in mid-year 2022 and ending mid-year 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Trellis Foundation focuses on postsecondary completion for Texas students. The application must be for services that will affect Texas students.
- Public and nonprofit Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), college retention community-based organizations, alone or in partnership with other entities. anticipate many IHEs and college retention organizations will need to partner with other organizations, such as a community health clinic, other college retention partners in their region, etc.
- Regional/statewide collaborations that actively support postsecondary student success.
For more information, visit Mental Wellbeing: A Basic Need for Postsecondary Students.
