Deadline: 15-Jun-21
The Colorado Health Foundation is seeking applications for its Funding Opportunity: Supporting Healthy Minds and Youth Resiliency (US). Through this opportunity, the Foundation will support youth of color and LGBTQ youth as they explore and grow their resiliency through identity, agency and belonging.
Identity, agency and belonging help youth develop personal and interpersonal capacities, such as relationship development with peers and adults, problem solving, critical thinking, sense of awareness and sense of self – all of which are critical to strengthening resiliency and coping.
Examples of programs or projects they’re interested in funding:
- The Foundation will be looking for ways applicants integrate their commitment to growing a sense of identity, agency and belonging for young people throughout their work. An array of youth programming will be considered, such as (but not limited to):
- Civic engagement
- Poetry and the arts
- Traditional cultural practice
- Outdoor adventure
- Apprenticeship or job skill training
- Community service
Focus Area
Nurture Healthy Minds
Eligibility Criteria
- To be considered for funding, organizations must meet the following criteria:
- Include the same group of young people and adults meeting over a sustained period of time to foster strong relationships and learning.
- Support young people as they build their skills and/or develop in each of the following areas:
- Development of racial, ethnic, sexual and/or gender identity.
- Demonstration of agency exhibited through exercising power and influence. This could take place through establishing and working toward personal goals, informing programmatic elements, and/or pursuit of leadership and advocacy opportunities in the broader community.
- Experience of belonging through establishing strong, supportive relationships with peers and trusted adults and understanding themselves to be a valued member of their community.
- Respond to cultural dynamics of the engaged group i.e. programmatic components are designed or adapted to meet the needs of their context and the population served; organization’s staff bring lived and learned experiences to understand needs, identities and culture of participants; and organization has a history with and is trusted by participants, who are engaged in informing, guiding and/or helping implement the work.
For more information, visit https://coloradohealth.org/funding-opportunities/funding-opportunity-supporting-healthy-minds-and-youth-resiliency-0
