The Elevance Health Foundation is emphasizing programs that promote equity in mental health, particularly for people with substance use disorders.
Donor Name: Elevance Health Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Foundation is focusing on programs that include prevention, crisis response, and harm-reduction strategies and reduce barriers to trauma-informed approaches.
Grant Program Goals
- Prevention & Early Intervention. Through evidence-based programs, promote protective factors and reduce risk factors that lead to depression and substance use.
- Treatment. Focus on crisis response and postcrisis and long-term intervention to reduce the impact of mental health and substance use disorders.
- Community Support & Recovery. Reduce barriers to trauma-informed approaches rooted in equity, and implement harm-reduction strategies to promote lifelong recovery.
Types of Programs
Elevance Health will consider proposals from qualified organizations across the U.S. However, at this time they are placing an emphasis on:
- 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.
Grant Term
1–3 years based on need.
Required Information
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 as measured by % increase in at least two protective factors compared to baseline
- Percentage reduction of multiple risk factors for later alcohol and drug abuse, mental health concern, and delinquency
- Percent of students showing an increase in perceived risk of harm in using alcohol, cigarettes, vape inhalants, or marijuana (NIH Monitoring the Future survey)
- Percent of students showing an increase in disapproval of people who use alcohol, cigarettes, vape inhalants, or marijuana (NIH Monitoring the Future survey)
- 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
- Mental health
- 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 programing that considers unique needs of the individuals served by the program
- Creates innovative solutions for Substance Use Disorder 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.
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