Collaborative Meeting Next Wed. 3:30 PM, Funding Opportunities and More

Dear Community:

Today’s newsletter includes information about next Wednesday’s Community Collaborative meeting as well as:

• Community Collaborative Meeting
• Funding Opportunities
• Events and Webinars
• Community Resources
• Community Feedback Requested
• In Case You Missed It

We look forward to sharing space during our Community Collaborative meeting next Wednesday, December 11 at 3:30-5 p.m. Add to calendar.   

ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided, along with closed captioning. For interpretation in another language, please email community.collaborative@doh.wa.gov by 5 p.m. December 9.  

We will have two primary topics:  

1. Community-Driven Outreach partners Refugee Immigrant Services Northwest and Center for MultiCultural Health will share how they work to promote health and well-being within their communities.
2. The Department of Health’s plans for a Center for Behavioral Health and related programs such as the 988 Lifeline.  We received initial input from community partners about these topics and would like to hear from you too!

Washington Women’s Foundation will award grants in the areas of Climate + Agricultural Justice, Non-Traditional Adult Education and Youth Mental Health and Connection Building. Letters of Inquiry are due by at 11:45 p.m. on December 6.  

Northwest Children’s Foundation provides funding for children and youth in Western Washington who are in the foster care system, and/or experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, abuse, neglect, and other trauma. Letters of Inquiry for the spring cycle are due by December 10 at 11:59 p.m. 

Public Health Seattle & King County is requesting applications for using community-centered approaches to address opioid overdose and prevention in King County.  Learn more and apply by December 19th at 2 p.m.    

The Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline Strategy in King County seeks to partner with communities to create school to life success pathways for young people 12 to 24 years old and their families, who are disproportionately impacted by systemic racism and most likely to be pushed into the criminal legal system or are already involved. Apply by January 30 at 2 p.m.   

FundHubWA is a new site for climate and clean energy funding opportunities for individuals, businesses and nonprofit organizations. 

Hagerty Consulting and the Washington Department of Commerce are offering federal grant writing assistance, grant writing technical support, and more for organizations statewide.     

More funding opportunities to promote the health and well-being of babies, children, and young people.

More than 16 million Americans are living alone while growing old. Register here for a Kaiser Health webinar called Going It Alone: A Conversation About Growing Old in America on December 11 8:30 a.m. PT.

Juntos por tu Salud is a hybrid Spanish Health Workshop and interactive experience on December 13, 14,15, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. It will feature engaging sessions led by various health providers and is supported by dedicated promotoras de salud.  Learn more and register.  

Learn how to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in disaster or emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.  Register for this free, online training from HHS.

Congratulations to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe as the state’s first Health Equity Zone (HEZ) for Native communities. 

Kaiser Health writes how Homebound Seniors Living Alone Often Slip Through Health System’s Cracks.  

The Health and Retirement Study, which looked at more than two decades of data from over 45,000 older adults in the United States, suggested that lifestyle, genetics and other factors at 60 years old can help predict brain health at 80. Read about it in this ABC article.