The Children and Youth Resilience Prize Challenge will award prizes to innovative community-led solutions to promote resilience in children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and other man-made or natural disasters.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Challenge
Deadline: 07/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Details:
The Challenge aims to:
- Award prizes to community-led solutions that promote resilience, advance mental health and well-being, and reduce the risk for negative mental health outcomes among children and youth
- Promote positive strategies and solutions that help children and youth – and their families and support systems – thrive
- Identify and elevate promising practices that promote culturally and linguistically responsive protective factors to improve resilience and advance mental health and well-being
- Support community-led innovation in promoting resilience among children, youth, and their families (in places such as community organizations, early childhood education settings, schools, primary care, and other children- and youth-serving or youth-led organizations)
- Increase understanding of gaps and opportunities to promote resilience, especially in underserved communities
- Catalyze action through public-private partnerships to broaden impact, address local needs, and promote sustainability
For the purposes of this Challenge, they consider community-led solutions to be those identified and driven by members of the community who are experts in their own contexts, needs, and solutions. A community-led solution involves community members working together – or in collaboration with other entities – to identify goals and develop plans that build on community strengths and implement those plans to achieve the goals.
Challenge Structure
The Challenge will be conducted in two phases:
- Phase 1: Proposal (May 2023 – July 2023)
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invites proposals for innovative community-led solutions to promote resilience in children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and other man-made or natural disasters. Webinars as well as posted question and answer (Q&A) compilations will provide information to help entrants – across all experience levels with applying for government funding – prepare their submissions
- Up to 14 finalists will be announced in August 2023; these finalists will receive a $25,000 prize for their winning Phase 1 proposal. They strongly encourage finalists to use Phase 1 prize money to support the implementation and refinement of Phase 2 pilots in order to best prepare their innovations for their Phase 2 submission
- Phase 2: Pilot (August 2023 – May 2024)
- In Phase 2, the Phase 1 finalists can choose to pilot their proposals; during this period, they will have opportunities to receive technical assistance from HHS and mentorship to support their efforts. At the end of the Pilot phase, finalists will submit a report that outlines their innovation and pilot phase findings. HHS will support and encourage Phase 1 finalists to engage in cross-learning and information sharing opportunities to learn from each other and other experts, with the goal of enhancing their approach to strengthening resilience among children and adolescents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and other disasters. Finalists will be invited to present their innovations at an in-person summit in Washington DC in Summer 2024. Funding will be made available to cover summit travel costs for up to two persons per finalist proposal. One grand prize winner will receive $300,000 and up to two runners-up will receive $175,000 each
- Beyond the Challenge – Implementation (beginning in fall 2024)
- The grand prize and runners-up winners of the Pilot Phase will be offered technical assistance and mentorship post-award to scale and implement their pilot projects. Additional opportunities for cross-learning to share information, progress, and lessons learned will be provided. Further details will be made available at a later date.
Prizes
- The total prize purse for the Children and Youth Resilience Prize Challenge is $1,000,000
- Cash prizes will be awarded across the Challenge Phases as indicated
- Proposal Phase
- Number of Participants: Unlimited
- Number of Awards: Up to 14
- Award Amount: $25,000
- Total: $350,000
- Pilot Phase
- Number of Participants: Up to 14
- Number of Awards: Up to 3
- Award Amount: $300,000 for grand prize, $175,000 for runner-up
- Total: $650,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Therefore, they strongly encourage proposals from: community-based organizations serving children and youth, youth-led organizations, and teams that partner with such community-based or youth-led organizations.
- Examples of eligible entities include but are not limited to schools, early childhood settings, primary care providers, community-based organizations, advocacy organizations, tribal organizations or governments, faith-based organizations, for-profit organizations or small businesses, youth-led organizations, or any other child or youth-serving entity. Individuals are also eligible to enter.
- To be eligible to win a prize under this Challenge, a Participant (whether an individual, group of individuals, or entity):
- Shall have registered to participate in the competition under the rules promulgated by HHS as published in this announcement;
- Shall have complied with all the requirements set forth in this announcement;
- May not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within the scope of their employment;
- Shall not be a Federal employee working on their proposals or submissions during assigned duty hours;
- Shall not be an employee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS, or any other component of HHS) acting in their personal capacity (all non-HHS Federal employees who are employed by a federal agency or entity other than HHS should consult with their agency Ethics Official to determine whether the Federal ethics rules will limit or prohibit the acceptance of a COMPETES Act prize);
- In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group, shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States;
- May not be a judge of the Challenge, or any other party involved with the design, production, execution, or distribution of the Challenge or the immediate family of such a party (i.e., spouse, parent, step-parent, child, or step-child);
- In the case of an individual who is younger than 18, must have their parent or legal guardian complete the Parental Consent Form.
For more information, visit U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
