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Communities That Care Request for Applications (RFA)

Provided By: South Dakota Department of Health’s Community Engagement Program

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Overview

The Community Engagement Program is soliciting applications from organizations who are committed to supporting their communities around capacity building and multi-sector partnerships to focus on prevention strategies. Communities That Care (CTC) is a community-based prevention system proven to reduce youth health and behavior problems community wide. CTC helps local coalitions develop community-specific prevention plans based on their unique levels of behavioral health problems and risk and protective factors. CTC’s 5-phase process provides communities with a step-by-step guide and tools to build a high functioning community prevention coalition, develop a community profile utilizing a community youth survey, create a community action plan for prevention work, and eventually implement and evaluate activities.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Preference will be given to rural communities or those identified as one of the 13 high-risk counties in the 2023 South Dakota State Health Assessment. These counties include Brown, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Lyman, Minnehaha, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, Roberts, Todd and Yankton.
  • One community from East River and one community from West River will be selected and work must occur in South Dakota.
  • Applicant must be able to show a clear need for capacity-building efforts within their community.
  • Applicant must be committed to implementing the Communities That Care prevention system, which includes, but is not limited to, developing a prevention coalition that meets regularly, administering a community youth survey, and creating a community action plan.

Important Dates

Application Deadline: 5:00pm CT on April 15th, 2024

Project Period: June 1st, 2024-May 31st, 2026

Grant Awards

Anticipated Award Amount: Applicants may request up to $60,000 for Year 1 and $50,000 for Year 2.

How to Apply

Application:  Application Guidelines and a Budget Template are attached below and the Jot Form application can be found at: https://form.jotform.com/240565231196152

Application Guidelines
Budget Template
RFA Question and Answer

Questions

Reach out to the grant’s primary contact:
Corryn Gabbert
Community Engagement Coordinator
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Application Assistance: Staff is available to answer questions throughout the application period. Please email  for assistance.