Search Through Mental Health Grants in Illinois in the U.S.

Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a private foundation practicing values-based grantmaking. Because of this approach, a wide spectrum of funding opportunities falls within the scope of the Trust’s grant making.The Trust's Values Statement:

• Tenet 1—Promoting “THISS:” promoting, instilling, and/or reflecting the values of individual and/or organizational thrift, humility, industry, self-sacrifice, and/or self-sufficiency.
• Tenet 2—Relieving Human Suffering: relieving human suffering by:
• performing research and/or promoting education regarding the treatment of disease;
• assisting youth who are from disadvantaged backgrounds, have troubled childhoods, have physical or mental disabilities, or experience emotional disorders;
• addressing the concerns of the elderly; and/or
• providing succor to humankind during time of natural or human-made disasters.
• Tenet 3—Developing Individual Self-Esteem and Dignity: developing within individuals, especially youth from underserved and/or under-resourced communities, a sense of self-esteem and dignity.
• Tenet 4—Encouraging Vigorous Athletic Activity: encouraging vigorous athletic activity, leading to physical health and/or spiritual well-being.
• Tenet 5—Developing Regional Solutions to Chicago’s Regional Challenges: developing regional solutions to Chicago’s regional challenges, thereby protecting and/or improving the quality of life for all its citizens.

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

Rules and Regulations

The primary purpose of Dana Brown Charitable Trust is to provide grants to organizations in the St. Louis area that support financially disadvantaged children (up to age 18) and programs that enable children to expand their knowledge of the world and nature through programs featuring wild animals in the St. Louis, Missouri, Metropolitan area (MSA).

Your grant request will be required to satisfy the above expectations. Specifically:

• Your funding request must directly positively impact the health, education, and welfare of underprivileged/economically disadvantaged children and/or support programs that enable children to expand their knowledge of the world and nature through programs featuring wild animals and/or zoology.
  • Secondarily, for animals, the Dana Brown Charitable Trust will continue to consider grant requests for programs with animals that provide services and resources for financially disadvantaged children, focusing on mental health, support, and community building.
• Your funding request must be allocated to organizations in the St. Louis, Missouri—Illinois Metro Area. Visit our Frequently Asked Questions section to see which counties this includes.

Additionally, The Dana Brown Charitable Trust is focused on high-impact, low-risk funding and places high importance on those organizations that work collaboratively with other nonprofits.

Required Focus of Application:

• Education, Families, Youth, Mental Health, or Brown County, IL.

TFF has two Annual Grant application review processes: 

Rolling Grants

• Rolling grants are for request of $25,000 and under.
• Applicant completes the TFF's Interest Form.
• After TFF staff have reviewed an organization’s Interest Form, applicants are notified via email whether they are invited to submit a grant application.Applications are due within 30 days of Interest Form approval.

Cycle Grants

• Cycle grants are for requests of $25,001+
• Applicant completes TFF’s Interest Form by the Interest Form deadline for Cycle Grants (see Pre Propsal deadline above). The form requests basic information about the organization and their grant request so foundation staff can ensure alignment with TFF’s grant program requirements.
• After TFF staff have reviewed an organization’s Interest Form, applicants are notified via email whether they are invited to submit a grant application.
• The Cycle Grant Application is due by the Full Proposal deadline above.

Community Needs Grants

The DeKalb County Community Foundation’s Community Needs Grant program supports requests for capital assets or equipment associated with various projects, renovations of existing facilities, and services throughout DeKalb County, Illinois.

Funding Areas

The Community Foundation provides Community Needs Grants in the following areas:

• Arts and Culture – Supports organizations that provide opportunities for access, participation, education, awareness, and appreciation for a variety of arts and cultural experiences.
• Community Development – Supports organizations that focus broadly on strengthening, protecting, unifying, and building the economic, cultural, and social services of a community.
• Education – Supports organizations that provide educational opportunities from birth to adulthood.
• Environment and Animal Welfare – Supports organizations whose primary purpose is to preserve, protect, conserve, and improve the environment. Animal Welfare supports organizations that promote the well-being of animals.
• Health and Human Services – Supports organizations that provide essential programs and services addressing basic human needs to children, youth, adults, and senior citizens, and/or promoting physical and mental health.

Funding

The maximum amount that can be requested in an application is $20,000.

About Cigna

Our Mission

To improve the health and vitality of those we serve.

Our Vision

A better future built on the vitality of every individual and every community.

Improving Veteran Mental Health

Across the United States, veterans face an elevated risk of homelessness relative to the general population. On any given night, an estimated 40,000 veterans go without shelter, and another 1.5 million veterans are considered at-risk of homelessness.1 Research shows that veterans experiencing housing instability are at an increased risk of mental distress disorders.

We seek to collaborate with and support nonprofit organizations that leverage evidence-informed programs and services to help local veterans feel stable where they live and ultimately create positive impact on their mental health. Nonprofit partners must align to at least one of these grant program goals:

• Increase permanent housing available for veterans.
• Improve affordability for housing for veterans through rental or mortgage assistance.
• Enhance the offering of wraparound services for veterans transitioning from shelters.

The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront economic, environmental, racial, and social injustice. Since our founding in 1992, the Impact Fund has made more than 800 recoverable grants totaling more than $10 million for impact litigation. We award grants four times per year, most within the range of US$10,000 to US$50,000.

Social Justice

The Impact Fund provides grants and legal support to assist in human and civil rights cases. We have helped to change dozens of laws and win cases to improve the rights of thousands. The cases we are funding allege that:

• In Texas and North Carolina, incarcerated people with mental health disabilities are forced to remain in jail despite being found not guilty and unable to proceed with a criminal trial.
• In Orange County, California there are currently 13 gang injunctions under effect, which disproportionately affect young men of color.
• In Chicago, Illinois, the city’s homeless shelter program is inaccessible to people with disabilities.
• In Springfield, Oregon, the city and its police department used excessive force against Black Lives Matter protesters.
• In West Virginia, the state fails to protect children in foster care from abuse and neglect. 
• In Montana, voter suppression laws disadvantage young adults and give priority to gun owners.
• In Gary, Indiana, a gun manufacturer negligently marketed and distributed its guns, leading to an epidemic of gun violence in the city. 
• In Vancouver, British Columbia, the police perpetuate systemic discrimination against Indigenous people through bureaucratic measures.

Environmental Justice

The Impact Fund provides grants to support local litigation for environmental justice. These grants are for cases aiming to help people or communities who are affected by environmental harm or who lack access to basic environmental needs, such as clean water, clean air, adequate waste treatment, and green spaces. The cases we are funding allege that:

• In Centreville, Illinois, the city’s failure to maintain its sewer system has caused raw sewage to flood peoples’ homes, endangering the property and health of a predominantly Black community.
• In Fresno County, California, the California Department of Transportation approved a highway expansion project that would increase air pollution and traffic in one of the state’s most environmentally burdened communities.
• In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the proposed expansion of a highway would divide the region's Black, Asian, and Latine neighborhoods and cause pollution and ill health.
• In North Dakota, the five-month closure of a highway in response to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests disproportionately affected the livelihoods and health of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members.
• In Ontario, Canada, mercury contamination of the English-Wabigoon river system causes catastrophic environmental and health impacts for the Grassy Narrows First Nation.
• In Sacramento, California, the county government and Sacramento Area Sewer District violated the Clean Water Act by discharging raw sewage into nearby rivers.
• In the Eastern Coachella Valley in California, 1,900 residents of the Oasis Mobile Home Park suffer from arsenic-laced drinking water, wastewater contamination, and overcharging for utilities.

Economic Justice

The Impact Fund provides financial and other forms of support to cases fighting for economic justice. From workers' rights to consumer protection for vulnerable populations, impact litigation is a powerful tool to hold corporationss and the government accountable. The cases we are funding allege that:

• In Brooklyn, New York, a prominent mortgage lender engaged in predatory practices, leaving homeowners of color at risk of losing their homes. 
• In Washington, live-in caregivers are unconstitutionally excluded from the state’s wage-and-hour protections.
• In Ravalli County, Montana, the county has created a “modern-day debtors’ prison” by incarcerating people unable to afford pre-trial fees. 
• In San Diego, California, vehicle ordinances target unhoused vehicle owners even when no adequate housing alternative exists.
• In New York, a federal immigration detention facility is violating minimum wage and forced labor laws by forcing detainees to work for just a dollar a day. 
• In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the city and county destroy the property of unhoused individuals and conduct forced evictions from public spaces. 
• In Miami, Florida, insurance companies discriminate against a nonprofit community development corporation renting to tenants with Section 8 rental subsidies.

Objective

The objective of the Social Services Grant (SSG) Program is to enhance social service activities for community benefit.

Strategy

Provision of financial support for enhancement of social services (including labor, supplies, and materials) including, but not limited to those concerned with employment, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, fair housing counseling, energy conservation, emergency financial assistance, recreational needs, senior services, or training for local agencies and institutions. The grant year starts on January 1 and ends on December 31.

Funding Priorities

The Social Services Grant was established with five main priorities in mind. Those priorities and eligible activities are listed below. Depending on emerging community needs, Staff performs assessment each year to determine if additional funding priorities should be emphasized.

• Emergency Services
  • Provide funding for emergency shelter
  • Food and personal care items
  • Emergency assistance
• Seniors
  • Respite care
  • Meal delivery
  • Home sharing
  • Mental health counseling
• Self-Sufficiency
  • Medical care for the uninsured
  • Financial counseling
  • Childcare
  • Employment services
  • Counseling/Substance abuse services/Case management
• Special Populations: Individuals with mental, physical and developmental disabilities
  • Caregiver support/Respite services
  • Community integration/Socialization/Independent living skills
• Youth
  • Mentoring
  • Counseling
  • Pregnancy prevention/education

Transportation is a priority in each category to fund the following objectives:

• Provide subsidy for a public transit voucher program.
• Provide subsidy for a gas voucher program.
• Provide subsidy for a taxi voucher program.

Maternal Child Health (MCH) Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Grant Program (IL)

The CDC’s landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study identified profound connections between experiences of abuse, neglect, and household stress before age 18 and a broad range of poor physical, mental health, and social outcomes across the lifespan, including negative impacts on reproductive health and pregnancy. Additional research highlighted an association between maternal and other caregiver childhood adversity with a range of biological and developmental consequences for their children beginning at conception and continuing through early childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Preventing trauma, building resilience, and supporting healing are possible and necessary to disrupt this intergenerational transmission of trauma and create the healthy environments that make it possible for children to thrive.

The Illinois Department of Public Health’s Office of Women’s Health and Family Services (OWHFS) receives federal Title V funding each year to improve maternal, child, and infant health outcomes across the state. Specifically, the Maternal Child Health (MCH) ACEs program seeks to strengthen families and communities, by ensuring safe and healthy environments for children to grow and thrive, and by assuring access to systems of care that are youth friendly and youth responsive.

The program will focus on advancing efforts to prevent, mitigate, and treat childhood adversity and trauma in Illinois through an equity lens. Applicants will serve either healthcare providers, or families/caregivers, children, and adolescents outside of the city of Chicago. 

Funding

Each grantee is eligible to apply for up to a total of $200,000 for the grant period. 

Strengthening the Bilingual Mental Health Workforce Initiative

Since August 2022, Illinois has received more than 41,000 men, women, and children who are categorized as “new arrivals.” To achieve desired health and well-being outcomes, new arrivals require a healthcare workforce that is culturally and linguistically reflective of the community being served, including behavioral health professionals. In response to this unmet and emerging need, ILCHF is issuing the request for proposals for the “STRENGTHENING THE BILINGUAL MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE INITIATIVE” grant opportunity. This initiative seeks to provide two-year grants of up to $100,000 each for nonprofit organizations that have the demonstrated capacity to provide bilingual clinical supervision to intermediate to fully bilingual advanced degree interns, or intermediate to fully bilingual recent graduates receiving clinical supervision hours towards their clinical licensure.

Teaching Coping and Problem-Solving Skills for Youth NOFO (IL)

This Notice of Funding Opportunity helps meet the CDC’s goal to support implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention in the U.S through implementing coping and problem-solving skills such as Youth Aware of Mental Health program and the Good Behavior Game, focusing on females aged 10-19 years. This funding opportunity also helps expand the implementation of strategies in the Illinois Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan 2020. The goal of this grant is to implement coping and problemsolving skills in communities, by choosing one of these programs Youth Aware of Mental Health and the Good Behavior Game, focusing on females aged 10-19 years. Measurable outcomes are essential for determining the extent to which the overall comprehensive approach and its component parts reduce suicide morbidity and mortality in disproportionately affected populations. 

Funding

Up to $168000

UNICO Foundation

The UNICO Foundation Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Corporation. This classification by the IRS allows various contributions to the Foundation to be tax-deductible. The Foundation was incorporated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1962. The purpose of the Foundation shall be to receive, accept and make gifts, donations, grants, awards, scholarships, fellowships, and the like, for charitable, scientific, educational, literary and religious purposes.  Every member of UNICO National is also a member of the Foundation. The Foundation also offers specific grants for cancer research & prevention and food bank/shelter. 

The UNICO Foundation makes substantial grants to:

• Cooley's Anemia
• Mental Health Organizations
• Italian Studies

Ralph J. Torraco Food Bank/Shelter Fund Grant

Mission: To feed the hungry and provide shelter for those homeless or the indigent.

Funding Criteria: To provide funds through community established food/shelter programs that provide food and shelter to those in need.

The program should not be located in a private home, and must meet all local and State health department regulations. The food/shelter program should have an established track record of providing food and or shelter to low-income clientele. Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens or Shelters should use 100% of the grant to purchase food or provide shelter. The program must be located in the United States and serve people in the United States.

Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) is a grantmaking program offered to organizations in the Chicago region by the Lumpkin Family Foundation.

Land, Health, Community (LHC) is the Foundation’s primary and largest grantmaking program that has centered its giving in East Central Illinois. Through this grant program, the Foundation works toward a long-term vision of holistically healthy communities. As a reflection of our commitment to this vision, the Foundation has decided to strategically align its giving in the Chicago area to this long-standing grant program.

The Aspiramos Juntos program has been renamed Land, Health, Community—Chicago (LHC-C). In addition to a new name, the program has refined its focus areas to reflect our commitment, as a Foundation, to supporting holistically healthy communities. We believe that a community’s health is rooted in its ability to access and obtain life sustaining resources for all its residents without undue burden, systemic barriers, and inequitable opportunity.

To this end, we make grants in the Chicagoland area that align with this greater vision. Specifically, we look to fund projects and organizations that support the following vision:

• Our communities are physically active, value healthy eating, and prioritize overall wellbeing. 
• All communities can thrive. Communities that have faced and continue to face inequitable and unjust policies, laws, and practices will be equipped with the resources needed to realize their full potential.

Funding Priorities

• Opportunities for children in/out of school to engage physically with and to learn about the natural world, to eat well, and to care for the planet.
• A community and/or multi-generational approach to addressing the mental health and wellness of youth.
• Efforts to increase access to healthy and sustainably produced food.
• Grassroots and community led initiatives centered on the pursuit of food justice.

Special Funding Opportunities

• Community Garden Grants: Community Gardens which are defined are small patches of land that are used to connect community members to nature. These gardens are engaged in minimal food production (as opposed to larger urban farms). The maximum award for this type of grant is $5,000 per garden. 
• Inspiration Grants: Inspiring proposals that center a collaborative approach to the pursuit of equity, justice, and restoration (please note that the maximum award for this type of grant is $10,000).

LHC-C Grantmaking Guidelines

In an effort to be more transparent and provide access to a wider range of applicants, the following guidelines will govern our grantmaking strategy. Taking our funding priorities into account, the LHC-C funding committee with review applications for our fall funding cycle within the following parameters:

Community Garden Grants: This project-based funding is for those organizations looking to establish community gardens on previously underutilized green spaces or to improve upon and/or expand existing gardens. This could be patches of land connected with schools, houses of worship, community centers, etc. Organizations can apply for up to $5,000 per garden. An organization is eligible to apply for support of multiple gardens in one application.  

Inspirational Grants: We recognize that there are organizations throughout Chicago that are doing some amazing work in efforts to bring equity, justice and healing to communities that have been systematically neglected by unjust policies, laws, and practices. We are offering grants of up to $10,000 to fund inspiring proposals, that are collaborative in nature, that are designed to foster healthy, vibrant and thriving communities. Proposed projects should be able to be completed using the amount of funds that are being requested. Projects have a greater chance of success if they showcase multiple community partners working together to accomplish a common goal.

About School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network (SBHSN).

Utilizing a unique framework of funding systems offered by the Department of Health and Human Services, managed care organizations, health insurers, and private donors, SBHSN promotes a system of care model (Coaching Model℠) offering a mix of evidenced-based intervention, prevention, and care coordination services to children in grades K-12. The Coaching Model aims to expand quality mental healthcare access on public school campuses and improve children's social, emotional, behavioral, family, and wellness outcomes.

School-Based Mental Health Implementation Grant

In response to the growing number of students who need mental health counseling, the School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network (SBHSN) is accepting applications from Local Education Agencies (LEA), Public and Private Universities, State and local Colleges, Charter School Management Companies, Public Schools, Charter Schools, and Non-Profit Organizations (501c3) to implement and expand mental health program services on local school campuses. Grantees will receive direct funding and reimbursement to support the following activities: 

• Expanding access to School-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).
• Coordinating mental healthcare services with school administration and staff. 
• Delivering mental healthcare services and coordinating academic-support activities to students with a history of attendance, behavior, and poor academic performance.

FUNDING

5-Years, renewable based on meeting performance goals 5-year award ceiling is $5,500,000.

 Communityworks Grant Competition

The Community Foundation of Kankakee River Valley’s mission is to build endowment funds for our region over time, and it strives to bring together individuals and organizations to assess community needs, to build greater endowment funds, to convene area leaders around important issues, and to distribute grant awards to worthy nonprofit organizations. The Foundation also serves as a neutral leader with no direct affiliation with any group, religion, political or governmental entity.

The goal of the Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life in both greater Kankakee and Iroquois Counties by supporting initiatives that are not currently being adequately funded. Grants awarded by the Community Foundation originate from income generated by our Communityworks Endowment Fund, a visionary initiative to help the Community Foundation build endowments for making grant awards, particularly in the following focus areas:

• Early Childhood Education
• Land Use & Protection
• Workforce Development

Grant-funded recipients of the Communityworks Endowment Fund are encouraged to address one or more of the above-identified focus areas and to make it publicly apparent how it is accomplished. 

Focus Areas

Early Childhood Education

• The community has determined that the Community Foundation can have the greatest impact on Early Childhood Education (birth to age 8) by supporting:
• The improvement of the quality of child care;
• The support for parent education;
• The improvement of the quality and accessibility of early childhood education services, and
• The improvement of opportunities to access children’s mental health services.
• More specifically the Community Foundation seeks to:
• Land Use & Protection

The community has determined that the Community Foundation can have the greatest impact in these areas by:

Workforce Development

Our area’s communities have determined that the Community Foundation can have significant impact by supporting:

• Increased work opportunities for unemployed/underemployed youth through collaboration with the Workforce Board and other governmental and community-based organizations.
• Youth programs that prepare entry-level employment through the development of soft skills and work experience.

More specifically the Community Foundation seeks to:

• Increase Work Opportunities for unemployed/underemployed community youth through collaboration with the Workforce Board and other governmental and community service providers via training partnerships, work experience, resource identification, workshops, surveys and other information-gathering efforts as well as through coordinated partnerships for workforce development strategies, initiatives and sponsorships.
• Prepare youth for entry-level employment through the development and sponsorship of programs designed and implemented to prepare youth with employment soft skills, job-seeking and job-retaining skills and youth work experience. The Community Foundation also seeks to collaborate and coordinate efforts with appropriate community partners to seek external funding resources or to underwrite costs as well as to assure quality employment preparation of youth including supportive, on-the-job work experience and workplace expectations.

RFP: Together Fund (Workforce) – We Rise Together

Background

We Rise Together: For an Equitable & Just Recovery is a coalition of public and private funders and communities accelerating equity in the Chicago region’s economic recovery so everyone who lives here can reach their full potential. To catalyze an equitable economic recovery from the COVID recession, We Rise focuses on grantmaking and engagement in communities hardest hit by COVID and those that are a majority Black and Latine because they are the places and people disproportionately affected by the pandemic. 

Community advisors through the Together Fund, an opportunity for local residents to shape $1.6 million in grantmaking, determined for this funding program that a particular focus on youth* is where our investments should be directed through this opportunity. 

Need/Opportunity Statement

Youth unemployment remains a critical challenge across Chicago’s economically disenfranchised communities. Many young individuals face obstacles such as limited access to competency-building programs, inadequate training opportunities, and systemic barriers that prevent entry into sustainable employment. This issue is compounded by gaps in wraparound services, such as childcare, transportation, and mentorship, which are critical to successful workforce development. 

There is a significant opportunity to invest in solutions that equip young people with the competencies, resources, and connections needed to secure meaningful employment. While this RFP invites existing youth-focused strategies and organizations that serve young people, We Rise Together also values innovation and encourages applicants to propose bold, novel approaches to addressing youth workforce needs in transformative and impactful ways. 

Goals & Outcomes

While this is a one-year grant, the activities supported through this funding should be designed to contribute to the broader, long-term goals of improving youth workforce development and creating sustainable organizations that serve youth. Work completed during the grant period should build a strong foundation for continued progress toward the following goals:  

• Increase youth access to competency-building opportunities, including certifications, apprenticeships, and quality job placements that lead to a livable wage. 
• Enhance youth financial independence through job retention, soft skill development (e.g., communication, teamwork, problem-solving), and readiness for employment. 
• Reduce barriers to employment by addressing systemic challenges such as transportation, childcare, housing support, and digital access. 
• Foster economic resilience by creating pathways for long-term career growth and strengthening partnerships with local businesses, educational institutions, and community organizations. 
• Improve stakeholder engagement to build stronger community relationships and increase retention of youth in programming. 
• Strengthen the financial resilience of youth-serving organizations by diversifying funding streams, collecting impact data, and demonstrating measurable outcomes. 
• Cultivate supportive organizational cultures by investing in staff retention, leadership development, and competitive compensation. 

Outcomes include up to three of the following:

• Strengthen the Organizational Infrastructure to Provide Services 
• Strengthen Workforce 
• Expand economic opportunities for Black and Latinx Chicagoans to access careers 
• Expand Partnerships Opportunities 
• Increase Organizational Effectiveness 

Grant Amounts Available & Grant Term

The funding structure includes two tiers to ensure both local organizations with strong connections to hard-to-reach youth and more established organizations with evidence-based youth workforce development programs have the opportunity to participate in the grant opportunity. All grants are for a 12-month grant term in this funding program: 

• For organizations with operating budgets under $1,000,000: Grants of up to $75,000 are available to support smaller, community-based organizations that are deeply embedded within the communities they serve and have strong relationships with youth who are often hard to reach. 
• For organizations with operating budgets over $1,000,000: Grants of up to $200,000 are available to support larger, established organizations with proven track records of delivering evidence-based workforce development programs for youth. 

This tiered approach aims to balance equitable access to resources while recognizing the diverse needs and capacities of organizations working to empower youth in workforce development. 

Executive Summary

Outpatient Fitness Restoration provides for outpatient mental health services and fitness education to non-dangerous defendants who are adjudicated unfit to stand trial. The standard for Fitness draws on fundamental principles of fairness to establish that it is both unlawful and unethical for defendants to proceed in a criminal matter without an understanding of the proceedings, its consequences, and the ability to assist their attorneys due to mental illness or intellectual disability. After defendants are adjudicated Unfit to Stand Trial by a judge, they may be committed to restoration in an inpatient or outpatient setting. Illinois courts allow for Fitness Restoration on an outpatient basis and is interested in increasing access to this option for adults and juveniles charged with Misdemeanor and other non-violent offenses for whom outpatient treatment is clinically appropriate. Outpatient Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) consumers may also be monitored through this program. Recognizing that Outpatient Restoration will include a range of customers having varied insurance coverage, the Division of Mental Health clarifies that resources from this grant must not be applied to any costs associated with the delivery of any services and supports that can be reimbursable by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), Medicare, or a private insurance company.

The purpose of this program is to operate an Outpatient Fitness Restoration Program by licensed mental health professionals who will provide community-based fitness restoration services, which include psychiatric, mental health and substance abuse treatment services, housing case management and linkage, as well as legal education, for adults and juveniles found Unfit to Stand Trial (UST) by the County Criminal Courts and remanded by court order to the Department of Human Services for treatment on an outpatient basis. Adults and juveniles will be referred to a Community Mental Health Agency, by the Department of Human Services/Division of Mental Health (IDHS/DMH) Forensics and Justice Services Bureau for court ordered outpatient forensic restoration and treatment services. Services will be provided on site or by telehealth by clinical staff.

The Outpatient Fitness Restoration program is designed to:

reduce the number of adults and juveniles determined to be UST, with mental illness and/or co-occurring psychiatric, intellectual disabilities or substance use disorders, on the State Mental Health Hospital waiting list for inpatient fitness restoration services and,

increase prompt access to clinically appropriate outpatient fitness restoration services for adults and juveniles determined to be UST who do not require the restrictiveness of a hospital setting.

The IDHS/DMH will provide outpatient fitness restoration training to clinical staff on an ongoing basis as well as provide technical assistance on clinical and administrative matters involving court ordered consumers. Outpatient NGRI monitoring may include psychiatric, mental health and substance abuse treatment services, housing case management and linkage and/or quarterly progress reporting to the court.

Funding Purpose

The general purpose of this program's funding is Outpatient Fitness Restoration for outpatient mental health services and fitness education to non-dangerous defendants who are adjudicated unfit to stand trial. The standard for Fitness draws on fundamental principles of fairness to establish that it is both unlawful and unethical for defendants to proceed in a criminal matter without an understanding of the proceedings, its consequences, and the ability to assist their attorneys due to mental illness or intellectual disability to achieve for the public good.

Number of Grant Awards

The Department anticipates funding approximately 16 grant awards to provide this program:

• One in Cook County
• 15 outside of Cook County

Expected Dollar Amount of Individual Grant Awards

The Department anticipates that the dollar amount of individual awards will be $ between $17,500 and $350,000 in Cook County and $17,500 and $200,000 outside of Cook County.

Cost Sharing

Providers are not required to participate in cost sharing or provide match.

Funding Purpose

The General purpose of this program's funding is to deliver the services to individuals with mental health disorders among those incarcerated to reduce recidivism.

Program Description

The Grantee must deliver services to individuals with mental health disorders among those incarcerated. Rates of mental health disorders among people who are incarcerated have consistently exceeded rates of such disorders in the general population. 

The grantee will demonstrate a sustainable model that can fulfill the recovery support needs of individuals with serious mental illnesses or co-occuring mental health and substance use challenges who are in the custody of Illinois Department of Corrections and are scheduled for parole within six months of entering the program. Services will be provided by individividuals with lived experience of successful reentry and recovery from mental health illness and/or substance use challenges who have either the Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) or Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) credential or can obtain one of these credentials within one year of date of hire.

About

The Illinois Department of Human Services was created in 1997 to provide our state's residents with streamlined access to integrated services, especially those who are striving for economic independence, and others who face multiple challenges to self-sufficiency.

CRSS (Certified Recovery Support Specialist) Success Program

Program Summary

The CRSS Success program will provide high-quality recovery support training, supervised practical experience, and wrap-around supports for individuals with lived expertise of mental health, substance use, or co-occurring mental health and substance use recovery. This program seeks to increase the number of individuals in Illinois who successfully obtain the Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) or Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) credential through the Illinois Certification Board (ICB d/b/a IAODAPCA), as one mechanism to address the behavioral health workforce shortage. For the purposes of this program, the term recovery support specialist will be utilized when referencing individuals pursuing either credential, i.e., the CRSS or the CPRS.

Funding Priorities or Focus Areas

IDHS is working to counteract systemic racism and inequity, and to prioritize and maximize diversity throughout its service provision process. This work involves addressing existing institutionalized inequities, aiming to create transformation, and operationalizing equity and racial justice. It also focuses on the creation of a culture of inclusivity for all regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or ability.

Executive Summary

Will-Grundy Medical Clinic (WGMC) will promote a healthy community by providing free healthcare and wellness services such as care coordination, case management, primary/specialty care, therapy, dental care, free medication, and street outreach services. These services are provided for individual families with behavioral health needs. The funds provided by the Division of Mental Health will support the salaries of staff focused on serving those with behavioral health needs, as well as refurbished or new laptop equipment, technology expenses, and program supplies. The funds will support the program director's salary for these programs, as well as the psychiatric nurse practitioner, therapist, nurse, and licensed clinical social worker overseeing the quality of these programs.

The following services will be provided for individuals with mental health or behavioral health needs:

• Provide covid-19 and flu testing, vaccinations, and education activities that the Clinic conducts onsite or refers out to partner agencies.
• Provide medical health care to individuals with behavioral and mental health needs by a psychiatric nurse practitioner, doctor, nurse, and/or other licensed medical.
• Provide oral health services that prevent and/or treat cavities, toothaches, and other oral issues.
• Provide behavioral health services that focus on an individuals' mental wellbeing and the external factors of their environment (social determinants of health).
• Dispense essential medication to patients after being prescribed by a provider. This medication is provided for all patients with mental health conditions.
• Monitor patients with behavioral and mental health needs to prevent the development of serious illness and screening for common preventable/treatable health concerns. Services include but are not limited to: A1c, strep, cholesterol, HIV, blood glucose, and STD.
• Provide stable housing to individuals with mental health needs through tenant-based rental assistance to individuals who are homeless.

Number of Grant Awards

This funding opportunity is a Legislative Add-On (LAO) and the award will be issued in totality to Will Grundy Medical Center.

Cost Sharing:

Providers are not required to participate in cost sharing or provide match.

About IDHS/SUPR

The mission of the Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (IDHS/SUPR) is to provide a recovery-oriented system of care along the continuum of prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support where individuals with SUD, those in recovery, and those at risk are valued and treated with dignity and where stigma, accompanying attitudes, discrimination, and other barriers to recovery are eliminated. IDHS/SUPR is firmly committed to addressing the opioid epidemic through prevention, education, harm reduction (response), and treatment. 

Build, Amplify, Support, Empower (BASE) Prevention Program

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) sets forth application requirements for evidence-informed substance use prevention programming geared toward youth and emerging adults that reduces stigma and substance use, increases awareness, supports recovery, and empowers the populations of focus (RISE Programs).

Scope of Services

BASE subrecipients will establish or expand innovative and evidence-informed programs for preventing, delaying, and reducing substance use among youth and emerging adults (ages 6–25), specifically those who:

• Identify as non-Hispanic Black,
• Do not consistently attend school, or
• Are more likely to use or misuse substances due to factors such as ACEs, mental health symptoms or conditions, familial history of OUD, and neurodiversity.

BASE prevention programs should seek to reduce or prevent one or more of the following:

• Substance use and misuse
• Stigma associated with SUD, treatment, and recovery
• Social and physical access to substances
• Harms associated with substance use and misuse, including overdose

To accomplish that goal, programs will fulfill one or more of the following objectives:

• Build awareness of substance use and associated risks and/or risk and protective factors
• Amplify access to evidence-informed community supports or to recovery and treatment
• Support capacity of regional and community groups
• Empower youth and their families, community members and school employees, or other individuals who engage with youth or communities.

With the aim of enhancing the current prevention continuum of care in Illinois, IDHS/SUPR is prioritizing “Indicated” and “Selective” programming. These are two of three domains set forth in the Institute of Prevention Model and described by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine thusly:

• Indicated programs, interventions, and activities are for individuals who are already beginning to experience the effects of a specific health outcome.
  • Example: Developing or promoting technology designed to help youth in recovery stay connected to their peer coaches, build meaningful connections, and overcome feelings of isolation.
• Selective programs and interventions are geared toward a subset of the population that may be considered at risk.
  • Example: Partnering with child welfare programs to develop and implement interventions for supporting healthy transitions of youth aging out of the foster care system.
• Universal prevention programs and interventions are tailored to an entire population, regardless of its members’ levels of risk.
  • Example: Cultivating social and peer resistance skills among college students.

Strategies

• Strategy 1: BASE Coalitions
• Strategy 2: BASE Schools and Communities
• Strategy 3: BASE Youth
• Strategy 4: BASE Pathways

Funding

A total of $15 million is available to be awarded over a period of 3 years to a minimum of 7 organizations. The anticipated award range is $100,000-$500,000 per period of performance. 

Executive Summary

The State of Illinois is coordinating agency strategies and investments, partnering with the community to build a strong safety net and permanent housing for Illinoisans facing homelessness and housing insecurity. In coordination with Illinois’ Coordinated Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, the Supportive Housing Program (“SHP” or “Program”) provides grants to qualified applicants (“Recipients”, “Providers”, or “Grantees”) to serve formerly homeless individuals and families, those in danger of becoming homeless, and/or people with chronic disabilities (“Participants”). Created in 2009, the goal of the Program is to help Participants obtain or maintain independent living arrangements in community-based housing.

Required services for all Participants include ongoing case management, advocacy, and counseling. Additional Participant-tailored services must include accessing applicable mainstream public benefits. Other supportive services may include alcohol and substance use counseling; mental health programming; job training; transportation; childcare; and others selected by the Participant to achieve maximum self-sufficiency. All services must be necessary to enhance Participants’ ability to maintain independent living arrangements.

Total Amount of Funding

The Department expects to award approximately $25,000,000, subject to sufficient appropriation of funds.

Anticipated Number of Awards

The Department anticipates funding approximately 80-120 grant awards to provide services under this program.

Background

African American Legacy (AAL), an initiative of The Chicago Community Trust, is a philanthropic and educational initiative led by Black civic and community leaders who share the common goal of improving the quality of life among Black people throughout metropolitan Chicago. AAL engages leaders in philanthropy, collectively and individually, and provides support to non profit organizations that work at the community level to educate and engage communities, and to provide neighborhood-based services and solutions to address community problems. Grounded in the philosophies of collective giving, community engagement, and grant making, AAL serves as a convener and catalyst to promote significant impact in Black communities through the organizations that it supports.

Focus Areas

AAL will support community organizations who share the common goal of improving the quality of life among Black people throughout metropolitan Chicago working in working in the following areas:

Community Wealth Building:

We seek to support organizations focused on the shared wealth of their communities, as connected groups of people. It is the shared wealth, not the sum of wealth, of multiple households or whole communities. For this focus area, successful applicants approach economic development in a manner that promotes the local, democratic, and shared ownership and control of community assets. Such initiatives include:

• Worker-Owned Cooperatives: Values-driven businesses that are collectively owned and democratically operated by their employees. Worker Cooperatives generate worker and community benefits.
• Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: Housing that is collectively owned and democratically managed by residents and that aims to maintain permanent affordability, accessibility, and stability.
• Community Land Trusts: Community-based nonprofits that acquire and steward community land and assets for the explicit purpose of preserving affordability and mitigating displacement from residential and commercial properties.
• Community Investment Vehicles: Legal mechanisms for community investment in neighborhood assets based on shared values and development goals. In its ideal form, CIVs are designed, majority-owned, and majority-controlled by residents or local members.

Community Mobilization

We seek to support organizations doing work in the areas of voting rights/access activism, immigration reform, education inequity, and fighting the erasure of Black people, Black history, and Black stories.

Community Care

We seek to support organizations that actively respond to the disproportionate impact of issues such as employment instability, housing instability, and trauma on Black people and Black communities through the delivery of mental health and wellness services as their primary service.

Grantmaking Criteria

• Black-Led or Black-Serving. AAL is committed to supporting Black leaders in organizations or organizations that serve underinvested communities whose residents or constituents are predominately Black. Black-serving means constituents are predominantly (51%) Black and/or from the African Diaspora (Africans brought primarily to the Americas as slaves who live around the globe—Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Europe, and Asia). Organizations that are older than five years will not be considered if the Executive Director and Board Chair are the same individual.
• Place-based. Primarily located in the Chicago metropolitan region (which includes Cook, DuPage, Kane, McHenry and/or Will Counties, Illinois), and accessed by Black people living in this region.
• People-driven. Program direction and design are grounded in the needs of the constituency and the community served. Using an asset-based approach means that the organization’s work is done not only for the people involved but also by them.

Funding Amount

Community Wealth Building Applicants Only:

Grants under these priority area for 2025 will range in size between $50,000 to $75,000 based on the scope of the applicant’s general operations or project-based needs. Community Mobilization and Community Care Applicants Only:

Grants under these priority areas for 2025 will range in size between $15,000 to $25,000 based on the scope of the applicants general operations or project-based needs.

FY26 CSA Juvenile Court Assessment Program (JCAP)

Program Description

Grantee will collaborate with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to provide the Juvenile Court Assessment Project. JCAP was developed as part of the IV-E Waiver Project. The purpose of the IV-E Waiver Project was to improve permanency outcomes for custodial parent(s) involved with DCFS who had lost temporary custody of their children. Substance use is a common concurrent challenge for many child welfare clients. Accessing their treatment needs and getting them engaged in treatment, when needed, as soon as possible, is a very important task needed for them to address their substance misuse and become more attentive to their goals. The IV-E Waiver Project is now complete, but JCAP remains active.

In order to focus on earlier engagement of substance-affected families after temporary custody of the child(ren) is taken, JCAP will have a mobile assessment team comprised of a JCAP Assessor and an outreach worker. This feature makes the services available to clients who maybe disabled or have medical challenges. This service is offered in addition to the traditional JCAP assessment services at the JCAP office located in the basement of the Juvenile Court especially for parents who fail to show for their Temporary Custody Hearing. JCAP will notify the TASC Outreach worker within two business days, of the parent’s failure to show for the Temporary Custody hearing. The outreach worker will facilitate outreach and engagement to encourage parents to complete the JCAP assessment. At the parent’s discretion, JCAP assessments may be completed in the field (e.g., the parent’s residence) instead of traditional venues such as Juvenile Court or a county child welfare agency office in Cook County.

JCAP assessors will complete a substance use assessment on clients and provide referral and linkage to substance use treatment agencies involved in the SUPR-DCFS Family Recovery Partnership or other SUPR licensed agencies or treatment providers. JCAP staff will call treatment providers to confirm patient placement in treatment and treatment participation for 30 days after referral. JCAP will collect and enter information for the database.

Comprehensive substance use assessment based on ASAM Dimensional assessment. Services available in office at Cook County Juvenile Center. Efforts are made to engage the client via mobile outreach and assessment team if client fails to be present for TC hearing.

• DSM V diagnostic impression and determination of most appropriate ASAM level of care.
• If detoxification services are required JCAP assessors coordinate admission between detox unit and treatment program.
• May refer to methadone stabilization prior to referral to residential treatment
• Referral of client to specific treatment agency which provides the recommended level of care:
  • Concomitant psychiatric and medical referrals for acute disorders noted at time of substance use assessment.
  • This includes client telephone screening interview, scheduling of intake apt., coordination of transportation to treatment agency, if necessary
• Confirmation of client’s admission into the treatment program.
• Case management for thirty days following referral to assure client participation in treatment.
• Referral to DCFS TSSP Recovery Coach.
  • If the client leaves treatment and returns for another assessment, TASC JCAP will re-engage and facilitate re-entry to treatment.
• Prior to the client’s next court date, the assessors will provide a substance use assessment summary with the following information:
  • A complete alcohol/substance use history including tolerance and withdrawal potential
  • Mental Health status including any history of suicide attempts or current suicidal ideation
  • Presence of current medical problems or medications
  • History of substance use and psychiatric treatment including treatment modality
  • History of current probation or parole status
  • DCFS involvement
  • Financial employment and housing status
  • Treatment recommendation, referral for services and treatment status

Target Population

Adult DCFS clients (mother, father, legal guardian, foster parent, adult ward of the State) 18 or older who has a history or suspected history of substance use. These are individuals who have an open DCFS Case in the Child Protective Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County Juvenile Court due to a child custody matter. The DCFS/POS Caseworker must complete the Referral/Status Form. Translation services are available through the Juvenile Court if scheduled in advance. Serving clients with severe intellectual disabilities would be difficult without assistance from the assigned case manager or family member who would be able to communicate the information necessary to complete the assessment.

The purpose of the Older Americans Act is to maximize the quality of life of older persons. The Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) provides federal Older Americans Act funds (Title III) and State General Revenue Funds (GRF) to regional Area Agencies on Aging for this purpose.

The grants fund a broad array of services that enable older adults to remain in their homes for as long as possible. These services include, but are not limited, to:

• Access to services such as transportation, case management, and information and assistance;
• In-home services such as personal care, chores, and homemaker assistance; and
• Community services such as legal services, mental health services, and adult daycare

This program also funds multi-purpose senior centers that coordinate and integrate services for older adults such as congregate meals, community education, health screening, exercise/health promotion programs, and transportation.

The State of Illinois is divided into 13 Planning and Service Areas (PSAs), each with its own Area Agency on Aging, to stimulate the development or enhancement of coordinated community-based systems, resulting in a continuum of services to persons age 60 and older. These services help seniors stay as independent as possible in their homes and communities, and avoid hospitalization and nursing home care. Using an intrastate funding formula, IDoA awards sub-grants under each approved Area Agency on Aging Area Plan. The funding formula reflects the proportion among the Planning and Service Areas of persons age 60 and over in greatest economic or social need, with particular attention to low-income minority individuals and those at risk of institutionalization. The Area Agencies on Aging in turn make sub-grants to local service providers, while advocating and representing the best interests of older persons and their caregivers.

What is the Lumpkin Family Foundation?

Who we are: The Lumpkin Family Foundation is a private, family foundation created in 1953 from the estate of Besse A. Lumpkin of Mattoon, Illinois. We are a multi-generational, family-governed organization whose programs reflect the collective aspirations of a diverse family living in communities across the country.

We make grants and conduct programs that support people working together to build healthy, sustainable communities in East Central Illinois and beyond.

Where we work: We are devoted to the region of East Central Illinois, where the Lumpkin family operated a business for more than 100 years. However, we look at the world holistically, through a systems lens, and direct resources elsewhere when it aligns with our goals.

How we work: We understand the Foundation's role as existing along a continuum - from responsive grant-making to the execution of our own programs that aim to spur innovation, foster leadership and encourage new approaches to old problems.

Wellness Grants for Leaders and Frontline Workers

The Lumpkin Family Foundation (LFF) recognizes that burnout is a constant threat to the sustainability of our grantee organizations and would be remiss if we did not prioritize the mental wellness of the people who lead, manage, and labor on the frontlines within the communities in which they serve. To that end, LFF has developed the Wellness Grant program to support the mental health and wellbeing of grantee staff and leaders.

Sabbatical Leave: New this year, organizations can apply for up to $10,000 toward sabbatical leave for a senior leader (e.g., Executive Director, President/CEO, or another senior leader). Sabbaticals must be a minimum of 6 weeks in duration and adhere to the leave or sabbatical policies of the organization applying for funding.*

Wellness Grants: Non-profit organizations that have received LFF funding during the last 3 years (2022-2025) may apply for funding to support the mental health and wellness of their leaders and staff. These are one-time grants of up to $2,500. Organizations may apply for this funding in addition to other funding opportunities as outlined on our website.

Hubbell-Waterman Foundation Grant

Mission

The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation invests in the Quad Cities community by funding capital construction projects, program and initiatives grants, and operational expenses. Our three areas of focus are culture and the arts, social welfare, and education.

What we do Fund 

• Funding is awarded to support three areas of focus: culture and the arts, education, and social welfare. Within these areas, we provide support for: 
  • Capital campaigns and capital acquisitions, including construction and renovations.
  • Operational and/or program grants not to exceed three years resulting from the completion of a capital campaign grant.
  • Multi-year program grants not to exceed three years. Program grants may include general operating expense reimbursement.

Focus Areas

The foundation has three long-term funding priorities: 

• Culture and the Arts
  • Cultivating and supporting the visual and performing arts
  • Investing in landmark cultural institutions
  • Supporting new and innovative programs and initiatives that enrich our community
• Education
  • Supporting pre-K–12 education through:
    • After-school and summer programs
    • Creative learning initiatives
    • Life skills and career training
    • Environmental education with a focus on sustainability
  • Mental health programs for students and their families
• Social Welfare
  • Supporting programs that are accessible to individuals and families through:
    • At-risk and low-income family services
    • Food and nutrition support
    • Housing security
    • Immigrant and refugee community support
    • Physical and mental health services

About

The Illinois Department of Human Services was created in 1997 to provide our state's residents with streamlined access to integrated services, especially those who are striving for economic independence, and others who face multiple challenges to self-sufficiency.

Mental Health Juvenile Justice

Program Summary

The Mental Health Juvenile Justice (MHJJ) Program functions as a point of contact between the Illinois Juvenile Court System, probation, schools, the community and the MHJJ Liaison employed by the community grantee. It is the responsibility of the MHJJ Liaison to build these collaborative relationships to identify and obtain referrals of youth with or at risk of mental health concerns. The MHJJ Liaison also provides training and technical assistance to referral sources in understanding the potential mental health needs of youth involved in their system. The MHJJ Liaison utilizes the MHJJ screening tool and then works collaboratively with the individual youth, family, the Managed Care Organization, and the referring individuals from either the Illinois Juvenile Court System, probation, school or community, to link the youth and family with any necessary community-based mental health and social services.

Funding Priorities or Focus Areas

IDHS is working to counteract systemic racism and inequity, and to prioritize and maximize diversity throughout its service provision process. This work involves addressing existing institutionalized inequities, aiming to create transformation, and operationalizing equity and racial justice. It also focuses on the creation of a culture of inclusivity for all regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or ability.