Deadline: 15-Dec-22
The Knowledge Institute’s Innovation Initiatives grant is now open for applications to provide funding for innovative solutions to pressing problems in the system. The grant is open to lead and core service agencies in Ontario’s child and youth mental health and addictions sector.
Priorities
- The Knowledge Institute’s Innovations Initiatives will fund projects that adapt evidence-based programs to help agencies meet the unique needs of racialized children, young people and their families by implementing culturally adapted programs. Applicants are encouraged to identify which one of these priority areas they will focus on.
- Determining whether a specific evidence-based program should be adapted (looking at the conditions for adaptation using a data-driven approach or a practical framework) and begin to adapt the program for a specific cultural group.
- Piloting a culturally adapted evidence-based program.
- Scaling up an existing culturally adapted program.
- Evaluating and improving a culturally adapted program.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $75,000 will be awarded for an 18-month term.
Eligibility Criteria
- Innovation Initiatives project proposals must:
- Be submitted by a lead or core service agency funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide child and youth mental health and addictions services.
- Describe an evidence-based intervention or practice that will be adapted to meet the unique needs of racialized children, young people or families.
- Demonstrate partnership within the broader community/service area and describe participation of local community partners in implementing or evaluating the evidence-based program.
- Include a plan to engage young people, family members and community partners in meaningful ways; and
- Demonstrate potential for scaling up the program to the broader child and youth mental health and addictions system in Ontario Projects that focus only on staff training are not eligible for funding.
- However, staff training can be one of the activities of the project and a strong link to the intervention approach should be demonstrated in the application.
For more information, visit Innovation Initiatives.