Grant applications open to nonprofits that work with substance-use disorder and mental health in underserved communities
The second round of Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky grants to expand services and programming for substance use recovery and mental heath support in minoritized communities is open through Sept. 13.
Among other things, the program aims to fund projects that work toward expanding services and programing for substance use recovery and mental health support in marginalized communities and to reduce the stigma associated with assessing evidence-based interventions that support substance use recovery and mental health.
“With this project, we aim to reduce overdose deaths and increase the overall well-being of these historically under-resourced Kentucky communities,” says the release.
This program is in partnership with the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort and the Kentucky Department for Health and Family Services.
According to the website, the collaboration will only fund projects that:
- Use a trauma-informed and resilience-informed care approach to reduce premature death of BIPOC Kentuckians
- Provide culturally responsive, evidence-based prevention, mental health treatment and recovery support services to BIPOC Kentuckians
- Strengthen treatment and prevention infrastructure through collaborative projects centering BIPOC voices