Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Health, Substance Abuse, Childhood Obesity, Mental Health
Deadline: Aug. 1, 2017
“The Empowered Communities Initiative (ECI) program is intended to provide support for minority and/or disadvantaged communities disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic, childhood/adolescent obesity, or serious mental illness. It seeks to prevent opioid abuse, increase access to opioid treatment and recovery services, and reduce the health consequences of opioid abuse; reduce obesity prevalence and disparities in weight status among children and adolescents; and reduce the impact of serious mental illness and improve screening for serious mental illness at the primary care level. The ECI seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of collaborations that include academic medical centers, prevention research centers, teaching hospitals, or Tribal epidemiology centers, and community based organizations to reduce significant health disparities impacting minorities and disadvantaged populations through the implementation of evidence-based interventions and promising practices with the greatest potential for impact.”
Funder: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health – Office of Minority Health
Eligibility: Nonprofits having 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, for profit organizations, small businesses, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (federally or state recognized), public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally or state recognized tribal governments) including Tribal Epidemiology Centers.
Amount: $350,000
Contact: Link.
