ACTION Trauma-Informed Spaces is a grant that supports Southern HIV service organizations to change their spaces to be more trauma-informed and healing-centered by creating physical and supportive settings. The space can be anywhere your organization works, such as offices, mobile units, indoors and outdoors. Organizations will create a healing-centered space by applying the six principles of trauma-informed care.
Donor Name: Gilead COMPASS Initiative
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/03/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $10,000
Details:
The ACTION (Act with Communities To Increase Opportunities and address Needs in the South) Grant is SUSTAIN’s funding opportunity that supports action-oriented projects in the US Deep South to build or enhance mental health and trauma informed approaches, promote wellness, and strengthen harm reduction approaches in organizations, coalitions, collectives, and groups. The proposed project should be grounded in Meaningful Involvement of People living with HIV (MIPA) principles, Transgender and Gender Non-conforming inclusive, anti-racist/classist/ableist, multi-lingual (if applicable) and accessible to communities disproportionately impacted by HIV.
Trauma-informed care and supportive spaces in this context
- Trauma-Informed Care is “a [project] program, organization, or system that is trauma-informed realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery; recognizes the signs and symptoms in clients, families, staff, and others involved with system; and responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, practices, and seeks to actively resist re-traumatization (SAMHSA, 2014).
- A supportive space establishes trust and boundaries, safety guards, promotes autonomy and is gender-affirming, inclusive, culturally responsive, and multilingual.
Funding Information
Funding of up to $10,000 per organization. The amount requested should reflect the scope of the project and should be completed by September 13, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations that demonstrate a commitment to serving people living with HIV and people with lived experiences who are most systematically impacted.
- Be located on the land of many First Nations Communities – also colonially known as the US South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, or TX).
- Be non-profit, tax-exempt organizations as set forth in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or have a fiscal sponsor.
Organizations that primarily serve Transgender and gender-nonconforming communities, Women, Latinx, Black, Immigrant, Indigenous, and Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual communities, along with those who serve rural communities and communities most impacted by the HIV epidemic
For more information, visit Gilead COMPASS Initiative.