The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is seeking applications for its Shaping a Healthy and Inclusive Future Together Grant Program.
Donor Name: Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
State: Kentucky
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The goal is to SHIFT the fragmented communities of Kentucky into communities with a culture of inclusion for individuals engaging in substance use and/ or experiencing chemical dependence.
The foundation is requesting proposals for support specifically from these organizations to further integrate harm reduction programing into the communities and help them build a Kentucky that is healthy, inclusive, and connected.
Project examples include:
- Integrating naloxone, safe use kits, syringe exchanges, or testing strips distribution to programing
- Community organizing and advocacy activities that give a voice to individuals with the lived experience of systemic oppression and state-sanctioned violence as a result of the War on Drugs • Stigma reduction trainings that help the public understand and articulate the importance of harm reduction models
- Developing a coalition of local businesses who will provide free harm reduction supplies at their establishments
- Building organizational partnerships and codifying referral protocol with providers of medications to treat substance use disorder
- Creating goals and guidelines to fill staff positions outside of the recovery community with trained peer support professionals
- Designing and providing culture of acceptance programing with mainstream program participants
- Creation of a mail-based harm reduction supplies distribution system
- Building advocacy capacity through story collection and story telling
Funding Information
The SHIFT program will provide 10-15 grants totaling either $10,000 to pilot new programing or $50,000 to support on-going harm reduction and racial equity work.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant is a community-based organization that primarily serves under-resourced communities of color.
- Applicant’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is reflected via BIPOC leadership within their staff and board of directors.
- Applicant is located in and provides services in the state of Kentucky.
- Applicant does not mandate sobriety in order for individuals to receive services.
Outcomes of the grant must include one of the following:
- The introduction of a harm reduction service modality into mainstream services.
- The increased inclusion of people who use substances into mainstream services.
For more information, visit Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.
