Deadline: 18-May-22
The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), Behavioral Health Services Commission, announces the release of a Request for Applications (RFA) for planning grant (Cohort V) that will allow eligible applicants to engage in a comprehensive community-based strategic plan that will result in community driven strategies to reduce underage drinking, youth marijuana use, health disparities, shared risk and protective factors to produce sustainable systems change.
This Kansas Prevention Collaborative-Community Initiative (KPCCI) is intended to reduce underage drinking, youth marijuana use, health disparities, shared risk, and protective factors and produce sustainable systems change and prevent substance abuse in identified communities and enrich prevention efforts across the state through the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based strategies, and culturally competent prevention strategies.
Goal: To reduce underage drinking, youth marijuana use, shared risk, and protective factors and produce sustainable systems change and prevent substance abuse in identified communities and enrich prevention efforts across the state through the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based strategies, culturally competent prevention strategies through the implementation and sustainability of effective, culturally competent and diverse prevention strategies.
Funding Information
- Planning grants will be $15,050 per community for one-year grantees. The number of awards will be based on the funds available.
- The award is for a 12- month planning year.
Eligibility Criteria
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services invites applications from private, nonprofit, and/or community organizations.
- Eligible applicants and their fiscal agents must be an existing community coalition or task forcefor at least the past six months and may include local government agencies, schools, public universities, and colleges, private and/or not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations based in the targeted community.
- Community coalitions shall be defined as a multiple sector partnership, mobilized at the local level to make their communities safer, healthier, and drug-free.
- Effective community coalitions must possess a stable and effective organizational structure with clearly defined roles, and responsibilities, and may include multiple geographic areas or school district boundaries that are efficiently and effectively able to work together (e.g., a rural, multi-county partnership).
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Existing Community Defined:
- An established coalition that is already formed and can prove they have existed at least 6 months prior to the RFA release date. They asked that documentation be submitted to demonstrate that you are an existing coalition, providing minutes, names of members, meetings, and general functionable activities in place or plans in place for other work, etc. (Only send a copy of minutes for one month prior to December 2021)
- No group can be developed prior to the RFA by collaborating with others to meet the guidelines for the RFA, where no established work has not been done as a coalition earlier than 6 months.
For more information, visit KDADS.
For more information, visit https://kdads.ks.gov/provider-home/providers/bhs-funding-opportunities