National Council of Urban Indian Health
1 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Suite 800-D
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202.544.0344
NCUIH’s Behavioral Health Community of Learning (COL) Grant Writing sessions provided Title V Urban Indian Health Organizations’ (UIO), non-UIO’s leadership, programmatic and development staff, and behavioral health professionals strategies to improve grant writing and grants management skills. The COL model provides a virtual classroom of peer support to better address the current challenges and needs faced by UIOs. These challenges varied from developing proposals to managing grants. Each of the BH COL sessions incorporated didactic learning. Also, peers shared success stories in obtaining external funds to sustain behavioral health services and programs. Please feel free to look at the archived sessions below for these helpful hints in grant writing.
2021 Behavioral Health (BH) Community of Learning (COL) Grant Writing Series
Charting Your Course: Navigating Funding Streams to Support Your Health Programs
The Charting Your Course: Navigating Funding Streams to Support Your Health Programs Community of Learning will provide Urban Indian Health Organizations’ (UIO), UIO leadership, behavioral health providers, grant and development staff the skills to help sustain current funding and secure new funding. This series supports building UIO’s grant writing capacity, program evaluation, and strategic planning skills. Each session will incorporate didactic learning and engaging activities.
Indigenous Approach to Writing Grants to Private Funders
October 8, 2021
Applying Indigenous Data Collection and Evaluations to Increase Behavioral Health Grant Funding
November 3, 2021
CEDAR Branch: Strategic Planning for Community Advisory Boards
November 16, 2021
2020 Behavioral Health (BH) Community of Learning (COL) Grant Writing Series
The 2020 BH COL Grant Writing Series will build on the 2018-2019 Grant Writing Series in supporting Title V UIO’s and non-UIOs with how to:
- Identify, prospect and approach private donors/funders to diversify funding streams,
- Provide best practices, tips, and tricks to manage grants successfully, and
- Offer best practices on fiscally managing grants.
Each of the BH COL sessions will incorporate didactic learning. Also, peers will share success stories in obtaining external funds to sustain behavioral health services and programs.
Session 1: Introduction to Approaching/Prospecting Private Funders
January 9, 2020
Session 2: Introduction to Managing Grants and Setting Yourself Up for Success
February 6, 2020
Session 3: Introduction to Fiscally Managing Grants
March 5, 2020
2018 – 2019 Behavioral Health (BH) Community of Learning (COL) Grant Writing Series
Session 1: Planning for Data Collection, Performance Assessment, and Evaluation
December 11, 2018
Session 2: Successfully Responding to a Project Narrative
February 7, 2019
Session 3: Grant Budget Preparation Fundamentals
March 6, 2019
Supported by IHS/Division of Behavioral Health Cooperative Agreement #H723IHS0004-01-00