Social Determinants of Health – Strengthening Families and Communities Grant

Donor Name: Telligen Community Initiative (TCI)

State: Selected States

Counties: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 06/16/2023

Size of the Grant: $75,000

Details:

This funding area believes in advancing social determinants of health through novel approaches around emphasizing the integration of childhood, family, and community health in new ways for the foundation. TCI wants to resource efforts that advance optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for families, children and youth.

These priority areas were identified to define TCI’s community responsive grant programming more specifically, to produce more defined themes within their priority areas, and to enhance the portability and replication potential of similarly themed projects across Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Oklahoma communities.

• Organizations continue to believe in multiple funding mechanisms that try to meet applicants where they are in their work and evolution. This could encompass multiple themes or forms of support.
• First-dollar, programmatic, or seed funding to nonprofit organizations or governmental entities is a powerful contribution TCI can make to positively impact health status.
• This funding can also be positioned to provide support for critical work of an organization in strong alignment with their funding priorities.
• Expansion or spread of already impactful and successful approaches you are doing to other populations or geography.
• This funding could also be evaluated by a potential applicant to support meaningful capacity building of an organization to better deliver its work or mission that strongly aligns with TCI funding priorities.

Priorities

Pre-Pregnancy and Pregnancy (Healthy Births)

Potential focus and what indicators of success could be predicated around:

• Building individual and community capacity to reduce rates of unintended pregnancies
• Efforts to educate around STI and HIV prevention, as well broader sexual health literacy efforts to empower youth to make informed decisions around sexual activity
• Efforts to assist in emerging best practices around contraception education and access for underserved and rural populations
• Increasing the number of pregnant women receiving early and regular prenatal care
• Enhancing the rate of children attending well child visits birth to 5 years of age
• Building capacity to implement culturally appropriate outreach and programming efforts to improve low birth weight outcomes for underserved populations

School Readiness and School Health Strengthening Family Support

Potential focus and what indicators of success could be predicated around:

• Resourcing efforts to help ensure proper screening and programming to increase likelihood of child developmental milestones being met
• Advancing Reach Out and Read or similar efforts that advance early pediatric literacy/print-rich environments or parents modeling reading, as well as programming and supports to eventually achieve 3rd grade reading proficiency
• Enhancing the work, programming, and organizational capacity of school-based health centers to be access points for pediatric health – utilizing education settings as health promotion venues

Healthy Parenting Skill Development/Strengthening Family Support

Potential focus and what indicators of success could be predicated around:

• Supporting the resourcing of effective home visitation programming to strengthen parenting skill development
• Screening for and connections to needed social services and support to augment clinical care needs (social determinants screening and closed loop community referrals)
• Advancing fatherhood efforts, in addition to maternal child health programming, to increase parenting capacity of families/family units
• Supporting efforts around later aged youth aging out of typical supports around housing/homelessness, social services, or educational or vocational pursuits to be better positioned to achieve a livable wage

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Prevention/Protective Factors

Potential focus and what indicators of success could be predicated around:

• Increasing the number of children screened for ACEs and referred for effective services (via programming such as Medical-Legal Partnerships or other clinical or educational intervention settings)
• Enhancing the number of adults linked to family-centered treatment approaches that include substance abuse treatment, parenting interventions, housing/ homelessness intervention, or efforts to promote avoidance of gun or gang activity exposure
• Resourcing programs that enhance connections to caring adults and increase parents’ and youth skills to manage emotions and conflicts using approaches in schools, childcare, and other settings

Funding Information

Organizations have also elevated the per grant maximum award size to $75,000.

Eligibility Criteria

To request a grant, your organization must be a recognized as a federally tax-exempt section 501(c)(3) charitable organization, an accredited school, or a public/ governmental agency located in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, or Oklahoma. Note: a public agency is an organization established and primarily funded by a unit of government. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department, or state governmental agency. Note that TCI does not fund organizations with a pending 501(c)(3) status.

Note: a public agency is an organization established and primarily funded by a unit of government. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department, or state governmental agency. Note that TCI does not fund organizations with a pending 501(c)(3) status.

For more information, visit Strengthening Families and Communities.