The Community-Centered Solutions funding opportunity aims to support trusted, community-based organizations that address mental health and substance misuse care, cultural relevance, care connections, and collaborations.
Donor Name: Caring for Denver Foundation
State:
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/04/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding will also support providers, peer specialists, and care navigation to ensure community can receive trusted care.
Funding Priorities 
Foundation will prioritize funding for projects and programs that address Denver’s mental health and substance misuse challenges in at least one of the areas below:

Inclusive Access: Helps people access care and support in ways that make sense for them, in places that feel comfortable, and at times that fit their schedules, so they are better able to participate, learn, build skills, and address mental health and substance misuse issues.
Attention to Fit: These projects ensure that when people seek care, they feel understood, connected, and respected by those providing that care, primarily through offering culturally designed and matched care options. These projects also support the mental health and substance misuse needs of those providing supports so that they can be at their best as they support others.
Care Over Time: Improve care transitions, making them easier and more seamless for people. The goal is to increase stability, minimize the starts and stops in mental health and substance misuse care that often happens when needs change, and prevent the trauma that comes when people re-tell, or re-document their journeys.

Key Considerations 
These considerations are based on additional feedback they’ve gathered through the learning activities specific to Community-Centered Solutions funding. Grant decisions will favor programs/projects that:

Support recovery from trauma through strength-based and culturally relevant interventions
Provide treatment and recovery supports from mental health challenges in ways that reflect the community being served
Demonstrated experience working with communities the organization is seeking to serve
Provide treatment and recovery supports that are integrated into existing programs
Coordinate mental health and/or substance misuse care transitions, crisis care to clinical inpatient treatment to community support for recovery
Support treatment and recovery for substance misuse, including alcohol and opioids
Provide treatment and support recovery for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse needs
Provide opportunities for ongoing connection and/or re-engagement for program participants and alumni.

Funding Information
The total amount available for all grant awards in this funding area is $12 million.
Eligibility Criteria 

Applicant seekers must be located and/or offer services in Denver and to Denver residents
Nonprofit organizations designated by the IRS as tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), or under other sections of the code or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity
Faith-based organizations designated by the IRS as tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, if all Foundation grant funds are used for non-religious purposes
Any Indian or Native American entity
Government-supported entities, including schools, museums or libraries, and City and County of Denver agencies.

Ineligibility 
Grant requests for the following will not be supported:

Grants to individuals, for-profit organizations, or private foundations
Annual appeals, membership drives, underwriting, or fundraising events
Endowments
Loans
Fellowships or scholarships
Debt reduction
Partisan causes
Programs that require participation or membership in a certain religion or seek to advance a particular religious faith or belief.

For more information, visit CDF.