Minnesota Department of Health seeks to fund one organization with the capacity and expertise to promote healthy pregnancies through pregnancy loss prevention strategies, such as successfully connecting families to referrals for supports including but not limited to mental and physical health support and directly providing bereavement support statewide to grieving parents or caregivers.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/21/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The organization awarded this grant must be ready to serve families statewide immediately upon signing the contract by coordinating resources, services, and related activities as appropriate.
Program Goals
- The goal of this funding is to provide grief and loss support to families experiencing a stillbirth or infant death in Minnesota and to promote strategies for pregnancy loss prevention. The applicant should propose appropriate grief and loss support services and outreach strategies to promote pregnancy loss prevention strategies. MDH may provide reporting of fetal and infant deaths based on the activities in the grantee’s approved workplan and the availability of data.
- Such support services and outreach strategies may include, but are not limited to, consultations, referrals to local public health nursing agencies, helping families to navigate bereavement-related resources or activities and health care provider education. Other eligible expenses may include development and maintenance of a website that provides information and resources, or evaluation of effectiveness of services provided, including participant feedback. The focus population is parents, legal guardians, foster parents, and extended family members who provided immediate care to the deceased infant, or parents who experienced a stillbirth.
Funding Information
Estimated Amount to Grant $130,000.00 per year.
Grant Period
The estimated grant start date is January 2, 2025, and the projected end date is December 31, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants must have three or more years of experience providing grief and loss support services and pregnancy loss prevention services to families and may include community health boards, Tribal governments, and non-profit organizations. Applicants must have state or federal recognition as a formal entity. Organizations or groups may apply as a fiscal agent. Applicants must be located in the state of Minnesota and conduct grant activities in the state, but fiscal agents may be located outside of Minnesota. Eligible applicants who wish to work together but have not formed a legal partnership must designate one organization to be the lead organization with which MDH will write the grant agreement.
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