Deadline: 16-Aug-21
The Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) is seeking applications for the COVID-19 School Wellness Initiative, a statewide private foundation that is focused on serving all children in the State of Illinois.
Goals
The goals of these new targeted two and a half year COVID-19 mental health response grants are to:
- Provide flexibility for communities to determine the best approach to respond to local mental health needs;
- Allow funds to be used for a range of responses, from prevention to early intervention to treatment;
- Allow funds to be used to support social & emotional wellness needs of not only children, but also parents/caregivers and teachers/school staff;
- Create enduring relationships between schools and mental health providers that will last beyond the grant.
Funding Information
- In each initiative, applicants may apply for grants of up to $150,000 per year for two years.
- ILCHF will invest up to $4.2 million in each initiative as well as up to $200,000 in a project evaluation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Across the State of Illinois, schools located in the following counties are invited to partner with a Medicaid billing non-profit mental health organization to submit a response to the RFP: Fayette, Jackson, LaSalle, Macon, Macoupin, Marion, Montgomery, Peoria, Rock Island, St. Clair, Stephenson, Vermillion, Williamson, and Winnebago.
- ILCHF grant funds may be used for, but not limited to, salaries and benefits, consultant fees, data collection & analysis, meetings, supplies, project-related travel, education and training, flexible funding for child & family needs, marketing, and communication materials.
- Eligible expenses in the Initiative may include a limited amount of capital expenditures that are deemed essential to accomplish the outcomes of the Initiative. Any proposed capital expenditures must be justified in the Budget Narrative.
- Grant funds may be used for indirect costs; however, the indirect costs must be itemized in the budget with a preference that itemized indirect costs not exceed 10% of total expenditures.
- NOTE: ILCHF funding cannot be used for:
- Partisan, political, or denominational programs
- Endowments
- Attempts to influence legislation, as prohibited by section 4945 of the Internal Revenue Code for private foundations.
For more information, visit https://ilchf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/5.27.21-Illinois-Covid-School-Wellness-RFP-5.20.21-Final.pdf