1. Blue Hills Community Health Alliance (CHNA 20)
Community Grant Information Session
April 15, 2016
9:30-11:00 AM
Quincy Center for Innovation

2. CHNA 20
We believe that the path to sustainable change for the health of our communities lies in multi-sector, collaborative, interdisciplinary efforts that address the roots of health disparities, not the symptoms.

3. Braintree Norwood Canton Quincy Cohasset Randolph Hingham Scituate
13 Communities
Braintree
Norwood
Canton
Quincy
Cohasset
Randolph
Hingham
Scituate
Hull
Sharon
Milton
Weymouth
Norwell

4. CHNA 20 Programs 1. Multi-year Grants 2. Community Grants
3. SA Prevention Coalition Initiative
4. BoH Collaboration Projects
5. Behavioral Health Programs
6. Member Engagement

5. 2016-2017 Community Grant Program
Grant Priorities
Improve access to care for vulnerable populations
Focus on Chronic Disease & Wellness
Foster collaborations
Potential for sustainability past the grant period
$50,000 in funds to allocate
Grants up to $5,000 each

6. Request for Application (RFA)
Intent to Apply
Narrative
Attachments
Work plan
Budget worksheet
Recipient Obligations

7. What is the problem you plan to address?
Narrative Questions
What is the problem you plan to address?
Are there collaborations that will help the program?
What approach (method) will you use to addressing the problem?
How you will measure the program’s success (change)?

8. The How
The grants will be read by a team of reviewers who will need to know:
HOW you will achieve your project's purpose?
HOW you will measure success?
HOW you will organize timelines?
HOW you will achieve additional core requirements?
Try inserting helper phrases: “By doing x, we intend to gain y.” “If we perform task A, it will result in outcome B.”

9. Intent to Apply 4/29/16 Application Due 5/20/16 Grant Review 6/10/15
Important Dates
Intent to Apply 4/29/16
Application Due 5/20/16
Grant Review 6/10/15
Award Notification 6/17/15

10. Q & A
Questions?

11. Email questions to: chna20@baystatecs.org
Kym Williams, CHNA 20 Coordinator
Arlene Goldstein, Program Manager

12. Writing the Grant Application
Describing the why, how and so what of it all!

13. Goals & Objectives Goals Objectives Broad Narrow General Specific
Intangible
Tangible
Longer Time Frame
Shorter Time Frame
May or may not be measurable
Measurable

14. Outputs vs. Outcomes INPUTS OUTPUT OUTCOMES IMPACTS
What you do
Resources you use
Staff
Materials
Collaborators
OUTPUT
How much or how many activities you produce or deliver to your audience
Events
Workshops
Direct service
Curriculum
OUTCOMES
What you want to achieve
The results of your program
Changes in
Knowledge
Attitudes
Skills
Behavior
IMPACTS
Sustainable Change
Environmental
System
Policy

15. Theory of Change
What will change in the lives of individuals, families, organizations, or the community as a result of this program? ƒ
How will this program made a difference? ƒ
How will the lives of program participants improve as a result of the program?
When will this change happen in the life of the program?

16. Non-participant Observations
Measuring Change
See the change
Data Record Review
Surveys
Non-participant Observations
Hear the change
Focus Groups
Interviews

17. Tools for Measuring Change
Post only
Pre / Post
Time Series
Comparative Group
Comparative
Standard

18. The How
The grants will be read by a team of reviewers who will need to know:
HOW you will achieve your project's purpose?
HOW you will measure success?
HOW you will organize timelines?
HOW you will achieve additional core requirements?
Try inserting helper phrases: “By doing x, we intend to gain y.” “If we perform task A, it will result in outcome B.”

19. Providing the How Incomplete Complete
We will analyze participant’s experiences.
Participants will complete confidential online surveys _X_ times per year
We will offer programmatic support to participants.
Each participant will receive a printed curriculum resource and training guide for Mental Health First Aid.
We will schedule regular follow-up sessions with the parents.
Parent satisfaction assessments will be conducted every six weeks between October and April.

20. Remember Did you answer the “how?”
Did you read it from the perspective of the reviewer?
Did you complete all sections of the RFA
Did you replace:
Uncertainties with affirmatives
Adjectives with ideas
Fillers with data