Deadline: 16-Aug-21
The Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) is seeking applications for its COVID-19 School Wellness Initiative, a statewide private foundation that is focused on serving all children in the State of Chicago.
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
- CSWI-C will focus on schools in fourteen Chicago zip codes whose residents have been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and whose populations are either majority Black or Latinx families, or a combination.
- Illinois COVID-19 statistics consistently show that Latinx communities have suffered a disproportionate number of COVID cases, and Black communities have suffered a disproportionate number of COVID deaths.
- Both these disparities cause immense distress in children.
- The Recovery Project is the collaborative effort of major Chicago foundations, nonprofit organizations, and public and private groups, including the Field Foundation of Illinois, the MacArthur Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, the City of Chicago’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- The maps confirm the multiple environmental factors, including housing discrimination, poverty, air pollution and flooding that put the Black and Latinx communities on Chicago’s South and West Sides at particular risk for negative outcomes related to COVID-19.
- Schools which are located in the following zip codes and within the boundaries of the City of Chicago are invited to partner with a Medicaid billing non-profit mental organization to submit a response to this RFP: 60609, 60621, 60623,60628, 60629, 60632, 60638, 60639, 60641, 60643, 60644, 60649, 60651, and 60652.
For more information, visit https://ilchf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/5.27.21-COVID-19-School-Wellness-Initiative-Chicago-Final.pdf