The Indiana Department of Health, Children’s Special Health Care Services Division (IDOH, CSHCS) is offering funding to not-for-profit organizations, local health departments and healthcare entities for FY 2024-2025 to implement early intervention programs for children ages 0-3 impacted by visual impairment.
Donor Name: Indiana Department of Health
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/24/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $121,250
Grant Duration: 23 months
Details:
Goals and Objectives
- Provide the overall project goals and SMARTIE objectives: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound, inclusive and equitable.
- State the unduplicated number of individuals the project proposes to serve (annually and over the entire project period) with grant funds.
- Describe how achievement of the goals will produce meaningful and relevant results.
Award Information
Applicants may request up to $121,250 per fiscal year for the 23-month grant cycle, for a total of $242,500. Applicants selected to receive funding may be awarded a maximum of $121,500 per FY for the 23-month grant cycle but may receive less than this amount. The grant cycle will begin on August 1, 2023, and end on June 30, 2025.
Required Services
Projects must be related to the following services and must include a training component for families:
- Improving healthcare and service delivery for young children with visual impairment. Examples include:
- Providing quality early intervention services to help support the success of the child at home, in the childcare or school setting, or in the community setting.
- Ensuring children ages 0-3 years with visual impairment are being seen by an ophthalmologist.
- Providing wraparound/care coordination services, including training to parents/caregivers, to increase the natural support available in the child’s life. Examples include:
- Assisting the family in fully understanding their child’s diagnosis.
- Helping the family know where to go for each identified need.
- Guiding the family to set goals related to their child and family needs.
- Providing services to ensure individuals return for follow-up visits.
- Providing or referring to appropriate social services.
Services provided must be evidence-based and/or evidence-informed and focused on improving outcomes. Applicants should justify the target population that they are aiming to serve in Indiana.
Activities
- Describe all activities that will support the goals of the project and achieve the SMARTIE objectives.
- Determine a method to measure and document the progress of each activity, what documentation will be used and what staff position will be responsible for implementing, measuring and documenting that activity.
- Describe how the proposed service(s) or practice(s) will be implemented or expanded.
- Describe how the populations of interest will be identified, recruited and retained using knowledge of beliefs, norms and values and socioeconomic factors of the target population(s).
- Demonstrate that the necessary groundwork (e.g. planning, development of memoranda of agreement, identification of potential facilities) has been completed so that implementation can begin no later than three months after the grant award.
Applicant Eligibility
IDOH encourages all who meet the criteria below to apply:
- Must be a nonprofit organization (as defined by the IRS Tax Determination), health department, hospital or other healthcare-related entity.
- Must collaborate with traditional and non-traditional agencies or organizations.
- Must serve populations within Indiana.
- Must comply with financial requirements of the grant.
Additional evaluation weight will be assigned to applicants who:
- Provide services in resource-limited counties.
- Promote the collaboration and building of comprehensive systems of care.
For more information, visit IDOH.
