Child & Family Mental Well-Being Grants

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To qualify for Child and Family Mental Well-Being funding, your program or service must focus on families with children. Funding priority areas include:

  • Mental well-being for children, including:
    • reducing suicide deaths
    • reducing frequent mental distress, anxiety, and depression
    • decreasing substance misuse
  • Advance prevention and early intervention addressing risk and protective factors
  • Expand comprehensive, family-centered, mental well-being programs
  • Build trauma-informed systems for young children including evidence-based prevention, behavioral health treatment, or related interventions or programs
  • Strengthen community behavioral health capacity and collaborations through coalition-building

Requirements

  • A full and complete financial audit conducted within the last two years. Submission must include the entire audit, including any findings and the auditor's letter     
  • A copy of the organization's 501(c)(3) designation letter or a comparable government designation
  • A completed W9
  • A completed Supplier Form (a blank copy will be provided in the application)

Additional information

  • In Utah and Idaho, applicants can request a total grant award between $5,000 to $100,000 per year for 3 years (up to $300,000 total) for the entire project period. Projects can last between 12 and 36 months and must begin upon receipt of funding.
  • In Colorado, Montana, and Nevada, applicants can request a total grant award between $5,000 to $50,000 per year for 2 years (up to $100,000 total) for the entire project period. Projects can last between 12 and 36 months and must begin upon receipt of funding.
  • A funding request may not exceed 20 percent of an organization’s annual operating budget, e.g., to be eligible for a $50,000 grant, your organization’s annual operating budget must be at least $250,000.
  • In general, small equipment and materials are eligible at no more than a total $5,000 cost, but large equipment, construction, and capital costs are not eligible. Consideration will be given if computer equipment is necessary and vital to the success of the project.
  • Grantees will be required to submit outcomes reports and will be expected to track and share aggregated data about their projects and participants.