Funding for Recovery Equity and Expansion (FREE II) is intended to continue expanding services and programing for substance use recovery and mental health support to Kentucky’s BIPOC and minoritized communities and/or to reduce the stigma around accessing such interventions.
Donor Name: Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
State: Kentucky
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
With this project, they aim to reduce overdose deaths and increase the overall well-being of these historically under-resourced Kentucky communities. 
This collaboration will only fund projects that:

utilize a trauma-informed and resilience-informed care approach to reduce premature death of BIPOC Kentuckians
provide culturally responsive, evidence-based prevention, mental health treatment, and recovery support services to BIPOC Kentuckians
strengthen treatment and prevention infrastructure through collaborative projects centering BIPOC voices

As part of the FREE Program, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky will provide grants to nonprofit organizations for activities that address the goals listed above.
Funding Information

At least 10 grants will be awarded, each in the amount of $50,000.
All funded activities must take place within the grant period, from October 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025.

Eligible Activities
Eligible activities under this grant include, but are not limited to:

Outreach and relationship building
Stigma reducing marketing, storytelling, or events
Coalition building amongst service providers
Increasing public knowledge of and reducing stigma toward the utilization of FDA approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and the multiple paths to recovery
Increasing community knowledge of evidence-based treatment and recovery supports, how to access services, and reducing stigma of seeking/utilizing these services.
Increasing knowledge of available harm reduction supports, such as local Syringe Service Programs and naloxone, and reducing stigma of seeking/utilizing these services.

For more information, visit Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.