Clackamas County Health, Housing & Human Services Department through its Children, Family & Community Connections (CFCC) Division is seeking applications from multiple agencies/organizations that are capable of delivering evidence-based and best practice parenting education class series and activities.
Donor Name: Clackamas County Health, Housing & Human Services Department
State: Oregon
County: Clackamas County (OR),
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 21 months
Details:
By providing high quality, evidence-based or best practice parenting education series and workshops to parents and caregivers in the community, CFCC aims to increase positive caregiver-child relationships, expand caregiver knowledge related to child development and effective parenting skills, and reduce caregiver stress resulting in enhanced health, development and school readiness for children.
The goals of the grant is to provide evidence-based and best practice parenting education class series and activities to parents of children ages birth to 18 years old living in Clackamas County or Multnomah County. Successful applicants will demonstrate the ability to offer high quality, easily accessible programming to universal and/or target populations. Successful class series, when applicable, will meet all fidelity requirements designated by the curriculum publisher and have a successful parent retention rate of at least 75% of participants attending at least 70% of class sessions offered. 75% of class participants will report an increase in quality of parent-child/youth interactions as measured by Parenting Skills Ladder (PSL) responses.
Funding Information
The funding sources for this opportunity are Oregon Community Foundation and Oregon State University. A total of $272,000 is currently available for the time period of October 1, 2023 and June 30, 2025.
Of this funding the following categories are available:
- $130,000 for programming for caregivers of 0-6-year-olds with $40,000 of that reserved for Multnomah County populations/virtual classes.
- $141,900 for programming for caregivers of 8-18-year-olds with $25,000 of that reserved for Multnomah County populations/virtual classes
More funding may be received and disbursed in this time period. Current available funds will be disbursed as follows:
- Minimum award amount is $8,000
- Maximum award amount is $100,000
- Note that the award period is for 21 months.
Funding Consideration
- Funding to individuals is not allowed.
- Applications must propose serving parents/caregivers of children who reside in Clackamas County or Multnomah County.
- Operating expenses must be clearly outlined for each proposed project.
- Applications must propose use of parenting curricula that is evidence-based unless proposal is for specific culturally and linguistically responsive parent education, for which there is no evidence-based curricula.
- Virtual parenting class programs are allowed using evidence-based curriculum so long as program facilitators meet curriculum publisher recommendations for virtual adaptations.
- Applications may include funding requests for promising or best practice approaches in parent engagement to supplement or enhance evidence-based series facilitation.
- Funding of capital improvements is not allowed.
- Organization’s chosen facilitators will be engaged in Clackamas Parenting Together (CPT) approved professional development and regional trainings. A total of 40 hours throughout the grant cycle is expected with an average of 2 hours a month.
- Schedule of class offerings to be approved by CPT staff.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, schools, or public entities serving residents of Clackamas County or Clackamas and Multnomah Counties. Proposed projects must address goals identified above and result in positive, measurable outcomes for parents and their children. Successful applicants will meet the following criteria:
- Demonstrate capacity and willingness to provide evidence-based and best practice parenting education services to a variety of populations. This includes, but is not limited to, parents and caregivers who are:
- BIPOC;
- English language learners;
- LGBTQIA+;
- Living in rural communities;
- Low income;
- Supporting children with special needs;
- Otherwise historically underserved.
- Commit to conducting a minimum of two and a maximum of fifteen separate evidence based class series over the funding period.
- Must commit to marketing virtual series/workshops to both Clackamas and Multnomah populations.
- May offer in-person classes in Multnomah County in Jan-Dec of 2024, but only if also serving Clackamas County with separate in-person or virtual series.
For more information, visit Clackamas County.
