The Foundation will prioritize funding for programs that increase the number of individuals receiving treatment for mental health (MH) and/or substance use disorders (SUD), support prevention and early-intervention strategies, and seek to reduce loneliness among individuals with these disorders.
Community health worker model adapted within Latino communities that uses trusted community members to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate health education, navigation, outreach, and support services.
Indigenous wellness approaches that integrate traditional knowledge, cultural practices, and community-defined health priorities to improve health and well-being.
Evidence-based diabetes prevention programs adapted to reflect cultural foods, family structures, language, and community contexts.
A school- and community-based evidence-based program that promotes positive behavior, social-emotional learning, and academic achievement
The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.
The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.
he Village Project, Inc.’s Emanyatta Project is a prevention and early intervention program that is intended to prevent and/or reduce symptoms of clinical depression and anxiety in children from kindergarten to 4th grade. The project necessarily involves families of these children for the purposes of support in these efforts as well as to strengthen the resilience and internal strengths of the children. It is through this involvement that the Phase I priority of family psycho-education is achieved. An additional component to strengthen the internal resources of the children is the project’s focus on building pride in cultural and ethnic heritage as a means of achieving higher levels of academic achievement and self-esteem.
The Sweet Potato program at the West Fresno Family Resource Center is a prevention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce school drop-out, gang involvement, and substance use initiation for African American youth ages 12-15 by decreasing internalized oppression, hopelessness, and low collective efficacy, while increasing engagement in collective economic activity, college intentions, mentoring, and leadership development. It is designed to address the Phase I African American strategic recommendations to focus PEI on community-based efforts specifically addressing African American culture and to address the co-occurrence of mental health conditions and socioeconomic challenges.
This report documents the experiences of 24 community-based organizations implementing vaccine equity projects and describes the infrastructure, technical assistance, culturally effective outreach, and investment needed to sustain their work.
