CPCQC seeks funding to enhance our data infrastructure by developing public-facing scorecards, dashboards, and reports with dynamic data visualization. This investment will not only strengthen our ability to track and communicate perinatal health outcomes, it will also enable CPCQC to make critical data more accessible to hospitals, policymakers, community-based partners, and birthing people across Colorado in a time when government health agencies and resources are under intense scrutiny.

Over six months, Results Lab's Impact Manager will help strengthen the Center for African American Health’s capacity to collect, analyze, and use data to drive program improvements and demonstrate outcomes. Through coaching, tools, and technical support, the capacity building project will empower staff to embed continuous learning and evidence-based decision-making into their daily operations.

We are seeking funding to develop a comprehensive data dashboard that will enhance our organization’s efficiency, decision-making, and long-term sustainability. This dashboard will streamline reporting, automate data collection, and provide real-time insights to improve program tracking, fundraising efforts, and cross-departmental collaboration. This tool will strengthen our capacity to serve more children, optimize resource allocation, and drive greater impact beyond the funding period.

Youth Healthcare Alliance seeks expertise to assist our pursuit and securing of a revenue strategy that aligns with our new strategic plan following an intensive strategic planning and funding landscape mapping process expected to be completed in fall of 2025. The fundraising technical support we seek through this grant opportunity would aid our staff in skills development to become more competitive with grant-seeking and -writing, provide feedback to prior grants written and advice based on the organization’s new strategic plan, and advise the staff on potential new funders that we should solicit.

United Way of Southwest Colorado (UWSWC) succeeds in building collective community change with over 80 local partners through an initiative named Team Up. Team Up exists to improve outcomes for kids and families, and we believe we can increase our positive impact by building a better method of welcoming authentic engagement with community members with lived experience, and to learn how to advocate for promising strategies and policies at all levels of community and government. This capacity-building support, if awarded, will help us take significant steps toward making these components integral parts of how we operate to be most effective.

Better Tomorrow serves as the supportive foundation for our four direct services programs. This Capacity request is meant to assist us in identifying impact measurements to evaluate how effective the Better Tomorrow model is. This project will allow us to better understand the overall impact of our organization and increase our effectiveness at serving vulnerable individuals within our rural community.

Foster Source, soon to be rebranded as Be The Source, is requesting a $25,000 capacity-building grant to strengthen its infrastructure and better serve youth in the child welfare system. Funding will support a contract Salesforce Administrator ($13,000) to optimize data management and enhance service coordination, as well as a website redesign ($12,000) to improve accessibility for caregivers. These investments will ensure more effective support for at-risk children by streamlining resources, enhancing communication, and expanding access to critical services.

Imagine a Mercer County where every parent and family has access to hands-on healthcare support, breaking down barriers that prevent them from achieving physical and mental well-being. Picture a mother receiving real-time assistance in securing stable housing for her children, a father accessing affordable medication without delay, or a high-risk youth finding transportation to attend crucial medical appointments. Together in Care: No Barriers, No Delays aims to create a sustainable, system-wide approach to addressing health-related social needs (HRSN) by embedding Community Health Workers (CHWs) within public health, healthcare, and community-based organizations. It ensures that vulnerable populations—including rural, low-income families, high-risk youth, and residents with mental health challenges—have equitable access to essential services-transportation, food, housing, and medication assistance, by integrating real-time screenings, direct referrals, and hands-on navigation to care.

This multi-modality educational outreach initiative- “Improving Pregnancy/Prenatal Care through Maternal Immunization and the RSV Vaccine.” The goal of this multi-modality initiative is to provide education and awareness on maternal RSV vaccine for the prevention of RSV and to facilitate effective, successful communication and care coordination for infant RSV prevention. The overall aim of the initiative is to advance optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for Illinois families, children and youth by providing maternal immunization education, materials, and resources on the most recent recommendations for the prevention of RSV and to facilitate effective, successful communication and care coordination for infantRSV prevention. The initiative will have a concerted focus on identifying and deploying education and outreach information in areas with limited access to prenatal care and other under-immunized populations (both rural and urban settings).

We propose to hire a case manager/health educator to supplement staffing at our rapidly growing OBGYN clinics. Many of the mothers we serve struggle with health-related social needs and chronic health conditions, which can cause barriers to early and frequent prenatal care. This dual-role staff member will be able to connect our patients to needed resources such as health insurance, nutrition benefits, and transportation, while also providing health education to any patients who may benefit from additional discussion after seeing their medical provider.

Promise Electronic Health Record (EHR)/Practice Management (PM) Optimization Project (PEOP)   We are proposing to contract or hire a Systems Analyst to work with our core IT team (IT Dir, EHR  Specialist, CFO, CEO, Operations leads) to foster this work Goals include: 1) Contract with or hire a Systems Analyst, 2)  Finalize project to assess the ability to move forward with a change in the EHR/PM host, or enhancing our abilities in our current collaborative. 3) Implement two key initial workflow improvements.

Health & Medicine is partnering with Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) to train parent leaders as trusted health messengers in their communities. COFI, a Chicago-based organization, empowers parents to lead advocacy efforts that drive systemic change. This project addresses the widespread issue of health misinformation, which weakens public health efforts and exacerbates health disparities. Research shows that peer-led education is one of the most effective ways to counter misinformation, as people trust information from within their own networks. Through a cohort-based model, parents will receive training on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), structural determinants of health, and protective factors alongside leadership and advocacy skills. Equipped with this knowledge, they will be able to identify misinformation, share reliable health information, and advocate for upstream solutions that address root causes of health inequities, strengthening community resilience.

We seek support for our Medical LegalPartnerships (MLPs) with Mt. Sinai Hospital’s Under the Rainbow Behavioral Health Program (UTR) and Comer Children’s Hospital. We initiated an MLP withUnder the Rainbow in 2016; this was the first pediatric behavioral health MLPin Illinois. UTR primarily serves children from South Lawndale, North Lawndale, Pilsen, and Little Village communities of Chicago, and includes some of our City’s most under-resourced areas. Despite lack of consistent funding support for this MLP, our team has continued to offer legal services, but over the past two years, we have had to scale back to fit staff capacity and resources. OurMLP with Comer has been running for 20 years. At this site, the demand for services, particularly around behavioral health, has grown beyond our current capacity. With Telligen funding, we would hire a full-time, Spanish-speaking attorney to assess and address the legal needs of patients and families in bothMLPs.

Little Heroes League is the only life-changing care coordination program embedded at top-ranked Level IV NICUs, that provides continuous inpatient and outpatient support to medically complex babies and their families. Our mission is to make exceptional care coordination possible for medically-complex babies and their families —unlocking their ability to thrive. Our coordinators fill a critical healthcare gap by streamlining care, communication and access to resources—free of cost—and personalized for patients and their families. Our inpatient services are immediately deployed to babies and families with the greatest need, so they can navigate their child’s care, help them get better quicker, and get them home where they thrive. Once discharged, our outpatient services help families make a seamless and successful transition home, providing comprehensive support and skill-building for families until they can flourish on their own.

We request funding to develop Healthy Families Illinois (HFI), a program with proven success, in implementing plans to strengthen and enrich parent-focused initiatives to train and support peers in active skill-building to ensure their children's health and developmental welfare. While we are government-funded, largely through fees-for-service, this funding only covers the basics of the services provided. Its incumbent upon OHU to increasingly seek funding that enriches and improves the quality of our service deliveries–in the case of this funding request, the expansion of doula services to address the needs of pregnant people and parents of young children in supporting positive outcomes in health and education through access to evidence-based programs and care.

The Subsequent Pregnancy Program (SPP) is a unique and effective home visiting program that empowers teenage mothers to delay a second pregnancy, graduate from high school, and build a stable future for herself and her baby. Each participant is paired with a dedicated Home Visitor who provides mentorship, reproductive health education, parenting support, and career planning. SPP’s structured curriculum equips young mothers with skills to balance education and parenting while addressing challenges like housing, food insecurity, and mental health needs. Currently based in North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side, 100% of eligible seniors in the program have graduated since 2017, with no second pregnancies among participants in that time. Options for Youth now seeks to expand SPP to communities on Chicago’s South Side where teen pregnancy rates are twice or three-times the overall rate in Chicago, breaking cycles of poverty and creating brighter futures for young mothers and their children.

BECOME is requesting $25,000 to support our Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) Contractor in 2025. This capacity building investment will support greater engagement in BECOME’s Culturally Responsive Community Transformation (CRCT) program and Courage to Love Collaborative (CLC) mother mentorship program in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham, a historically underserved neighborhood where there are additional challenges in engaging residents due to systemic disenfranchisement. The COE Contractor will employ targeted strategies to build trust, remove barriers, and encourage broader participation among community members to ensure that our organization’s work is community-led.

Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center (ChicagoCAC) requests $25,000 from the Telligen Capacity Investment grant to implement a Comprehensive Capacity-Building Initiative focused on leadership development and diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging (DEIAB). This initiative includes an Executive Coaching Program to strengthen managerial competencies and DEI Roundtable Discussions to foster cross-sector collaboration and advance equitable workplace practices. The project will enhance employee retention, reduce workplace conflict, and improve service delivery to the diverse population of children and families we serve.

Mobile Care Chicago (MCC) will utilize TCI capacity investment funding to implement three initiatives in pursuit of the overarching goal of improving the MCC patient experience and voice.  MCC will 1) enhance its current parent advisory board activities by providing it additional support in terms of paying stipends for participants and allocating more staff time to its activities; 2) better understand its clients by investing in data collection strategies to improve its annual survey of clients that informs organizational priorities; and 3) become more user friendly by sending automated reminders for scheduled appointments and allowing new patients to provide their consent for services digitally.

Fetal Alcohol SpectrumDisorders (FASD) impact the physical, mental, and social health of children, families, and communities. Florissa is the only clinic in northwestern Illinois to offer FASD evaluation but capacity to expand services is limited. For this project, providers will be trained to screen for prenatal alcohol exposure(PAE), refer children for evaluation, and implement the only evidence-based treatment for parenting skill development when PAE is involved.

CHAT seeks capacity-building funds to support identified needs in two key areas: next level leadership development and external support to build cash flow capacity. Recent federal funding uncertainty underscores the importance of clarity in both of these areas. Our proposal seeks the funds to equip CHAT with the cash flow forecasting capabilities and clarity on the skills we have on staff, both toward a sustainable, steady-state future.

FamilyCore is requesting $25,000 from Telligen to help grow our capacity to self-fund our organization through additional fund development strategies, including planned giving and major gifts. These dollars will specifically fund prospect identification from our existing donor database, developing a formal planned giving program strategy for engaging planned giving prospects identified, and developing a formal major gifts program strategy for engaging major gifts prospects identified. As part of building our fundraising capacity, we will contract/hire planned giving and major gift staff to carry out the strategies that emerged.

Our goal is to actively engage current donors and cultivate others so that NAMI DuPage will have sustainable resources to meet the increased need for our mental health/substance use disorder services. Currently, NAMI DuPage is almost entirely funded by private or local government grants (we receive no state or federal funding at this time) and individual donations, but many of our donors are aging and we have not had the resources to cultivate new donors nor actively pursue a legacy program or properly research and apply to other funding sources. This project approaches revenue enhancement from several different angles and seeks utilizing consultants who bring new ideas/connections with them which will be transformative in our ability to move forward in a position of financial strength and sustainability.

Ellipsis and our legacy organizations, Youth Homes of Mid America and Youth Emergency Services and Shelter, have been in a constant state of change since 2020. We are beginning another transition as a new CEO joins our team with some significant challenges ahead. Funding from Telligen will support organizational stability and sustainability during the transition year through targeted consulting informed by organization history and future needs including team development, operational strategy and context, and succession planning.

EveryStep seeks funding to support leadership training for the organization’s management team who serve statewide. This effort will assist in avoiding non-profit burnout and increasing nonprofit sector resiliency by providing access to education, coaching, and strategies to increase workforce productivity, reduce staff turnover, help manage change, improve company culture, and lay the foundation for future leadership at higher levels.

The organizational data capacity and infrastructure project will advance the capacity of Iowa ACEs 360 for internal and external data collection and visualization.

Peaceful Family Oklahoma (PFO) seeks funding to expand its trauma-informed, evidence-based programming to support children impacted by substance use disorders (SUDs) in their families in rural Canadian County. Through our newly established satellite office at the Cardinal Point Family Justice Center and our active role in the Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT), PFO is uniquely positioned to integrate childhood, family, and community health in new ways. This initiative aligns with TCI’s priority areas by emphasizing the Social Determinants of Health, equipping community stakeholders—including parents, educators, caregivers, law enforcement, and social service providers—with training and tools to foster Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACEs) that mitigate the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

Children's Health Foundation (CHF) supports the Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Program at the Child Study Center in Oklahoma City. IECMH provides high-quality, specialized treatment to young children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their families. IECMH will partner with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma (LASO) to implement a medical-legal partnership. LASO will embed an attorney in the IECMH 20 hours a week to address civil legal issues that present barriers to healing for children and families in Oklahoma. TCI funds will be used for personnel and operating expenses of the MLP.

Imani’s Village, Inc. seeks funding of $150,000 over a two-year period to implement the "Empowerment Through Doula Care" initiative, aimed at enhancing infant and maternal health within all communities in Oklahoma but with emphasis in the Black community. In response to the disproportionately high infant and maternal mortality rates experienced by the Black community, the project will provide comprehensive doula services, childbirth education, and breastfeeding support to 80 families. Additionally, we will conduct a community-based doula training program, equipping 35 individuals with the skills to offer doula services. These trained doulas will collectively serve an additional 70 families of various racial backgrounds as part of their training, creating a sustainable network of support. The initiative aims to reduce rates of unintended pregnancies, improve birth outcomes, and foster healthy, informed communities.

We plan to launch and offer much needed doula services for women throughout the perinatal period to promote a safe pregnancy and healthy delivery, and improve maternal mortality rates in central Oklahoma’s maternal health deserts.

Honestly seeks $25,000 to strengthen our digital infrastructure through a two-part initiative that includes updating our website to highlight our new strategic plan, Forward Together, and developing an integrated communication and partner relationship management system to complement this new 5-year plan. The system will integrate with our existing fundraising CRM (eTapestry) to facilitate critical partner activities such as meeting/training registration, evaluation form submission, and contact information management while enabling data-driven decision-making.

Potts Family Foundation is a dual-mission organization with a vision to empower a network of sustainable nonprofits statewide to impact the quality of life for young children. This project will equip the Potts Family Foundation team to support the development of nonprofit leaders and to impact systemic change through asset-based community development.

Crossover HOPE (Healthy Outcomes in Pregnancy & Early-life) addresses significant birth outcome disparities in North Tulsa through comprehensive maternal and child healthcare. The program integrates high-quality prenatal care with intensive case management to serve underserved families in our community. Our family medicine physicians, who live and work in North Tulsa, provide continuous care from pregnancy through early childhood, supported by dedicated nursing staff and enhanced diagnostic capabilities including ultrasound services. A dedicated RN Case Manager coordinates essential support services addressing social determinants of health, while partnerships with Ascension St. John and Family and Children's Services create a comprehensive care network. Through this integration of clinical excellence and community engagement, Crossover HOPE aims to transform maternal and infant health outcomes in North Tulsa.

Resonance’s Substance Use Treatment/Diversion Services program provides a trauma-informed, gender-responsive alternative to incarceration for Oklahoma women with substance use disorders. Targeting root causes of addiction, the program offers one-on-one and group therapy, case management, and transitional housing to support long-term recovery. By providing access to comprehensive treatment, Resonance promotes family stability and improves maternal and child health outcomes. The program empowers women to achieve lasting sobriety, employment, and stable housing, ultimately fostering healthier individuals and communities. This grant will support sustained and expanded capacity to serve women and families in need.

The Resilient Families Project strengthens mental health support, parenting resilience, and social-emotional well-being for students and families in underserved communities within Northwest Tulsa. A licensed therapist will  provide on-site counseling, ACEs screenings, and trauma-informed SEL sessions layered into existing programs, including after-school activities for elementary students, enrichments for middle and high schoolers, recreational programming, and family events. Families will be connected to free educational and social service interventions, including referrals to mental health resources, parenting workshops, and access to wraparound support services. Parent workshops will focus on stress reduction, abuse prevention, and positive discipline, while a Parent Mental Health Champion program will train caregivers as peer advocates. Older youth will develop leadership skills in social-emotional well-being, ensuring a sustainable, community-driven support network.

United for ALICE is a driver of innovation, research, and action to improve lives by shining a light on the challenges ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) families face and helping to find collaborative solutions. Through a standardized methodology that assesses the cost of living in every county, city, district, or zip code, this project will result in a comprehensive measure of financial hardship across Oklahoma. Tulsa Area United Way (TAUW) requests support to provide high-quality, unbiased data and analysis from local and regional public data sources and national research. By becoming a United for ALICE state, TAUW (and organizations around the state) will harness data and research on the mismatch between low-paying jobs and the cost of survival to generate education and awareness opportunities for media and individuals and to develop innovative programs, practices, and policies to improve access to essential resources.

EMBER is dedicated to fostering a sustainable, supportive work environment that prioritizes employee morale, belonging, engagement, and retention. By nurturing the wellbeing of our faculty, staff, and residents, EMBER aims to ignite a culture of connection and growth within the department, ensuring each individual feels valued, supported, and empowered to thrive. Through wellness initiatives and wellness champions, we feel we can combat burnout and allow our employees to best serve Oklahomans.

The rates of unintended pregnancy and STIs remain high in the US, and disproportionately affect Black youth. We propose a sexual health literacy intervention to empower Colorado black youth through a peer-led sexual health education program that use both in-person and social media engagement.

Mama Bird Doula Services aims to support 100 BIPOC families in Denver, Adams, and Arapahoe Counties by providing culturally competent prenatal education, postpartum doula care, and lactation support. This project addresses maternal and infant health disparities through targeted interventions, community partnerships, and comprehensive support, ensuring equitable access to quality healthcare and reducing systemic inequities.

The Pre & Post-natal Health Care Access for Low-income Mothers (P&PHCA) program aims to enhance prenatal care accessibility and increase wellness visits for children up to age 5 in low-income neighborhoods and underserved communities. P&PHCA aims to promote optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for families, children, and youth by improving access to essential healthcare services such as prenatal care and wellness visits.

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Deliver statewide training to 120-140 behavioral health providers regarding mental health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ+) Coloradans that result from systemic discrimination, biases in healthcare that negatively impact their treatment, and providing culturally responsive and affirming care to LGBTQ+individuals.

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The proposed project will fill a gap in the support we offer to newcomer families in Denver. A Newcomer Resource Navigator will connects newcomer families with specific services such as housing, employment, and Spanish perinatal and pediatric care.

La Cocina’s integrative Latine behavioral healthcare institute and Applied Liberation Psychology practice center welcomes new bilingual (Spanish-English) faculty and a cohort of monolingual Spanish-speaking trainees to El Instituto–the only community co-designed Latine training center that delivers culturally-affirming social, emotional and neurodevelopmental healthcare in Spanish. Known for its supportive networks, El Instituto is built “by Latines, with Latines, and for Latines.”

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Coordinate wrap-around social and professional development support and stipends for young adults entering the healthcare workforce in our Clinical Health Coach, Community Health Worker and Care Management workforce development lattice. Engage primarily young adults aging out of foster care, graduating from alternative schools, and those living at or below the poverty level by connecting them with services and equity-committed healthcare organizations seeking new staff.

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VNA Health Care is seeking funding support for our Nursing Career Pathway Program. This program was developed during the pandemic in an effort to improve opportunities for career development, close staffing gaps, and promote diversity and equity in VNA’s nursing workforce that staff shortages have particularly impacted. This program supports 75% of the tuition expenses of under-resourced individuals seeking to progress in a nursing career at VNA serving vulnerable populations.

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Shawnee Health's proposed project addresses the area’s on-going demand for dental assistants in our region. Our apprentice program helps supply the area’s depleted dental assistant workforce. Our project requests support for our 2024 dental assistant apprentice program in our dental clinics. Funding will provide support for 2 apprentice’s salaries, fringe benefits and educational costs as well as support for the Dental Assistant Preceptors who train and provide oversight to the apprentices.

We propose to enhance doula support during the postpartum period and add a Community Health Worker (CHW) to the OBGYN care team to in crease patient engagement in perinatal and well child care. These staff members excel at building rapport with patients and will provide health education and solutions to barriers tailored to individual needs.

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Every birth story holds the weight of history. Chicago Volunteer Doulas is embarking on a transformative mission. At its core,"100 Doulas Rising" is our ambitious endeavor to educate and train 100 Doulas, making them eligible for Medicaid Reimbursement and equipping them with employable skills. By ensuring their certification in Full-Spectrum Doula training, this program champions birth equity and paves the way for a healthier future for parents and babies alike.

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We are seeking the support of the TCI to fund our SDOH initiatives aimed at improving outcomes for Black mothers & other medically vulnerable populations by 1) providing access to patient advocates, doulas, holistic providers, 2) funding integrative healing justice workshops, and 3) spaces for creative expression & advocacy skills sharing. This work is encompassed in 3 NDoula programs: Legacy Wellness Initiative, Elemental Reproductive HealingArts, and NDoula workshops/professional development.

Launched in 2023, West Side Healthy Parents & Babies in 2023 is an initiative is designed to address critical maternal and infant health disparities in ten zip codes in Chicago by connecting expectant mothers with a with a variety of existing resources, such doula supports, lactation consultants, assistance with housing and other incentives for patients to remain in care -while helping them navigate the health care system from pregnancy through one year postpartum.

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The Oakley Square's Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) is a comprehensive initiative designed to address ACES and the multifaceted challenges faced by at-risk youth in Oakley’s violence-plagued community. Facilitated by TCB’s CL and partnering agencies, YEP will provide academic support, character development, emotional resilience training, and social empowerment to create a safe, supportive environment where youth can thrive and contribute positively to their community.

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The Dental Connections Smile Squad mobile dental program builds a safety net for children who would not otherwise see a dentist by providing dental care at schools. The program has provided care at 80 schools in 8 districts in Des Moines. The shortage of dentists who accept Medicaid insurance has created an unfulfilled need for mobile dentistry in rural areas. The Smile Squad Rural Expansion Program’s goal is to expand the reach of the program to rural schools within 90 miles of Des Moines.

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It Starts With You is an initiative to recruit and retain court-appointed special advocate (CASA) and foster care review board (FCRB) volunteers for Iowa children in foster care placement. Between 2022 and 2023, the programs lost 100 volunteers for a myriad of reasons, including emotional toll. It Starts With You expands programs through volunteer recruitment, retainment, and appreciation programming.

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The Eastern Iowa Certified Medical Interpreter Pilot Project will reduce language barriers and increase positive healthcare outcomes for immigrant populations by building capacity for certified Marshallese and Spanish-language medical interpretation services.

A lack of local, community-centered medical interpreters limits access to healthcare. This project will train community members in interpretation and create a database of interpreters ready to work with healthcare providers in the region.

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The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Nurse-Midwifery Education Program (NMEP) was successfully launched in the fall of 2023. As Program Director, I would like to provide scholarships to all the students enrolled in the program to offset the costs of education. Each cohort has four students. In the fall of 2024, we start our second cohort, so we anticipate we will have eight students total.  

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Vision to Learn will provide vision screenings, exams, and glasses to students, at no cost, in Allamakee, Black Hawk, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Marion, Muscatine,Polk, Pottawattamie and Scott Counties via our mobile vision clinic.

The Healthy Pregnancy Coordinated Care Program connects expecting parents to the resources they need to have a safe and healthy pregnancy, birth, and post-partum experience. This program follows a coordinated intake model that facilitates linking pregnant individuals to key service providers in their area. Trinity Muscatine Public Health will screen expecting parents for anticipated needs and will link these individuals to the relevant resources offered through established partnerships.

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This project will enroll 15 participants aged 17-24 from disadvantaged backgrounds in south central Iowa in a paid summer apprenticeship program to become EMTs. The 10.5-week program features state approved EMT coursework leading to national certification testing, hands-on, on-the-job training with area healthcare employers, career exploration and soft skills training. Seven area ambulance services will serve as host sites, facilitating labs, career exploration and clinicals.

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People of color and those historically excluded are underrepresented in cancer research fields. The American Cancer Society (ACS) Diversity in Cancer Research (DICR) Internship Program offers paid research internships to undergraduate students whose racial or ethnic background is underrepresented in the scientific community. Interns engage in 10 weeks of hands-on lab experience and mentorship in clinical settings. In 2024, the University of Oklahoma will host 8 interns.

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Imani's Village, Inc is committed to enhancing infant and maternal health in the Black community which currently experiences the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality. Our program consists of providing free doula services to Black birthing families as evidence continues to show that getting doula support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum helps to leads to improved mental and physical outcomes.

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Community Health Centers of Oklahoma (CHCOK) & Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma (LASO) propose a medical-legal partnership to integrate legal advocacy and legal services to strengthen families and communities and address and resolve patient problems and concerns that stem from civil legal problems and their social environmental circumstances. This collaborative effort will support underserved persons in OKC and create a foundation to sustain a collaboration where health responsibility is shared.

Variety Care (VC)’s Teen Clinic program is part of a county-wide collaborative effort to reduce HIV and unplanned pregnancy among teens. The program also teaches essential life skills. VC recently constructed a health clinic on the campus of Crooked Oak schools in Oklahoma City, which will be the base of operations for Teen Clinic. VC requests grant funding to pilot a student intern program to increase the effectiveness of the Teen Clinic program and engage the community in prevention.

The UKB PACE Advocate Initiative will serve approximately 100 tribal members within the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians 14 county tribal jurisdictional boundaries in northeastern Oklahoma coordinating tribal and external services to directly address ACES among UKB children and families.

WorkAdvance is an evidence-based workforce development program designed to build a skilled and inclusive healthcare workforce in the Tulsa metro area. Through no-cost training, career coaching, job placement and wrap-around support, WorkAdvance equips underserved individuals for careers in healthcare that offer steady, high-paying wages with opportunities for career advancement, contributing to the long-term success of individuals and sustainability and vitality of our healthcare employers.

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The STudents Reaching Excellence Through Collaboration with Higher EDucation (STRETCHED) program is designed to help increase the number of healthcare practitioners from limited-income, first-generation, and underrepresented minority groups. STRETCHED provides exposure experiences to high school students to help spawn an interest in pursuing a healthcare career.

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Tulsa CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a non-profit organization that recruits, trains, and supports volunteers who advocate for the best interests of children that have suffered abuse and/or neglect, in the court system. The volunteers work with children in the foster care system to ensure their needs are met and that they have a voice in court proceedings

HopeHouse OKC supports families facing homelessness with housing, case management, and family-centered programs. The hopeKIDS program focuses on working with children and parents, offering after-school activities, parent-child classes, mentoring, group counseling, and trauma-informed training.

We are proposing to develop a mental health curriculum for Community Health Workers (CHW) that builds upon and disseminates our experiences and lessons learned integrating mental health interventions into CHW-led programs to help address health inequities and further advance this important career.

This project aims to use an interdisciplinary team of Black professionals in medicine, public health, psychology, and behavior science, in collaboration with community leaders to address the growing inequity in maternal health outcomes through community and individualized education of Black women.

Funding from Telligen will advance MDCC’s behavioral health workforce development program that creatively supports providers across the career lifespan through the agency’s successful internship, fellowship, contract, and affiliate provider programs.

SWCAHEC will contribute oversight, coordination, and training content related to working with rural, underserved, and tribal communities. The program focus will be on training Native American paraprofessionals in primary care to serve diverse community members.

FIRST strategically integrates pregnant/postpartum people and families with lived experience into every level of maternal-infant care in Colorado healthcare facilities and communities to address root causes of maternal mortality and increase access to culturally-relevant, safe, equitable care.

Workshops that encourage caregivers of LGBTQ+ youth to create accepting and affirming environments and advocate for the safety and inclusion of LGBTQ+ youth. Adult support is critical for LGBTQ+ youth mental health, suicide prevention, lifelong wellbeing, and fostering healthy relationships.

Child Advocates - Denver CASA requests $50,000 to help address the gap in individualized services for older youth as they prepare to age out of the child welfare system in Denver by providing a CASA Volunteer or Mentor to participating youth in the Older Youth Program (OYP).

Youth Crossroads offers a workforce development program to provide introductory training in community health work and youth mental health services to high school students and young adults (ages 16-24) in Chicago's near west suburbs, which are 87% low-income and 84% 1st and 2nd generation Latina/o/x.

Erie House’s Pathways to Success Program provides holistic and culturally competent healthcare career preparation to over 200 adults from low-income and immigrant families across Cook County.

Prepare Black and Latinx healthcare professionals to advance along a career pathway from CNA to BS in Nursing, advancing racial equity and health equity by boosting the region’s healthcare system. Bringing providers together across the health system to ensure a seamless pathway to advancement.

CommunityHealth is a free clinic serving low-income, uninsured Chicagoans, many of whom are immigrants and do not speak English as a first language. It’s also a training ground for future healthcare professionals, allowing them the opportunity to work with this underserved, unique population.

Shawnee Health Services (SH or Shawnee) proposes to expand our OBGYN clinic doula services to reach 200 expectant mothers, providing the education and support needed to positively affect maternal and infant health outcomes.

Our Doula Program in Rockford uses specifically trained home visitors (Doulas) who provide support to high-risk, young women before, during, and after pregnancy, in order to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect and to develop strong parent child attachments and healthy futures for families.

There is a nationwide shortage of speech-language pathologists plus a lack of diversity in the speech-language pathology field (currently 92% white). To help diversify the field, CHAT is offering a paid summer internship to BIPOC aspiring SLPs to gain the necessary experience for graduate school entry.

Funding will help prevent youth suicide and unify Illinois schools in a collective shift from stigma to support by expanding the evidence-based Hope Squad program which organizes peer-nominated support teams trained by advisors to identify and reach out to others exhibiting warning signs of suicide.

SIHF Healthcare, an FQHC serving low-income populations across Southern Illinois, seeks to establish sustainable medical and mental health services at schools where children struggle due to a lack of medical access created by low social determinants of health through one-time, start-up funding.

To support and grow a skilled, integrated, and recovery-oriented peer workforce, we must understand peer and employer challenges in diverse communities in Iowa. We will use study findings to develop curricula, write a TA strategic plan, and broadly disseminate a best practices peer supervision guide.

CMC will provide programming for refugee families that supports physical, social, and mental health for children and families, including prenatal classes for Afghan women, parent education classes for refugee parents and guardians, and youth programming for refugee middle and high school youth.

The Healthy Pregnancy Program (HPP) provides education and support to low-income pregnant individuals to ensure healthy babies and reduce maternal mortality amidst an ever-increasing maternity care desert in Iowa.

IBDC is improving Black maternal and child health outcomes in Iowa through targeted integrative services, including comprehensive doula support for prenatal care, birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum health; culturally responsive parenting group support; postpartum health resource and referral.

LSI's Early Childhood Home Visitation programming provides evidenced-based and locally-designed family support/parent education designed for at-risk pregnant women and families with children ages 0-5 in order to promote positive child development outcomes and safe, healthy families.

Promise Community Health Center will assist licensed therapists from underrepresented backgrounds advance their knowledge and skills and achieve independent licensure, improving the accessibility of therapy services for high-risk patient populations.

Iowa CareGivers(IC), as part of its new 3-year strategic plan framework, will pilot a more structured and branded self-care program for Direct Care Workers (DCWs), and collaborate with partners to include Community Health Workers, and Public Health Workers to reduce burnout.

VNAPC's home- and shelter-based Parenting Support programs strengthen high-need, high-promise children and families through a multigenerational focus on maternal and child health, prevention of abuse/neglect, child development and school readiness, parenting skills, and family self-sufficiency.

In 2020, OC offered a cohort of 20 healthcare workers a way out of low-level jobs through online courses, allowing students to remain employed while working on a nursing degree. Today with 330 students enrolled, we seek funding for a program director, marketing materials, and refreshing of courses.

The OU College of Nursing Student Success Center aids in workforce development by providing intervention services for students, such as tutoring, group study sessions, academic coaching, time management, and study skills. The program aims to successfully transition from nurse formation to practice.

The UKB PACE Advocate Initiative will serve approximately 150 tribal members within the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians' 14 county tribal jurisdictional boundaries in northeastern Oklahoma, coordinating tribal and external services to directly address ACEs among UKB children and families.

Students Reaching Excellence Through Collaboration with Higher Ed (STRETCHED) is a program for high-school students designed to spark interest in healthcare careers. With this proposal, we hope to secure funding to develop the program, expanding offerings into the full four years of high school.

CAP Tulsa is seeking support for the Home Visiting program, which offers personal visits where trained parent educators meet one-on-one with parents and children in their homes. The focus of these visits is parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being.

DVIS proposes to establish a Caring Dads program, an evidence-based intervention curriculum for fathers who have perpetrated violence in their families. This will change our current counseling practices to better include fathers in order to enhance their children's safety and well-being.