The Regional Access Project Foundation is seeking Letters of Intent for the Health/Mental Health Grant to support programs intended to meet, improve, and increase access, quality, and awareness of mental health services and resources.
Donor Name: Regional Access Project Foundation
State: California
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $72,450
Details:
The RAP Foundation’s and Desert Healthcare District & Foundation’s focus for this grant is to fund programs/projects that advocate improving the psychological, emotional, physical, and social well-being of residents in Coachella Valley and Palo Verde Valley.
The Health/Mental Health Grant is for programs intended to support the following strategies below:
- Improve the quality of mental health services to remote areas through innovative systems that address policy, access, and delivery channels.
- Improve awareness of mental and emotional health resource services for residents in Coachella Valley and Palo Verde Valley through systems that address access, policy, and delivery channels.
- Support cultural competency of service providers and reduction of language/stigma/cultural barriers to service access for clients.
RAP Foundation and Desert Healthcare District & Foundation have partnered together for this grant. A total of $800,000 is available in cash grants, and $72,450 is available in technical assistance for the Health/Mental Health Grant. Funding requests can be made and used for any programmatic cost, such as staff time, supplies, general operations, etc.
Note: The individual that is identified as the contact person for the application will be the person that receives all emails regarding the status of the grant.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply for the Health/Mental Health Grant, applicants must:
- Be a tax-exempt nonprofit, community-based organization, or collaborative group
- Attend the mandatory Bidders Meeting on Monday, February 13, 2023, from 10 AM- 11 AM.
- Support one or more of the strategies identified in the Strategy Map
- Serve the identified target population: PRIMARILY low-income residents in Coachella Valley and Palo Verde Valley with an emphasis on BIPOC family units with children
For more information, visit Health/Mental Health Grant.