SANTA BARBARA – Cottage Health is now accepting applications for the 2023-25 Behavioral Health Initiative Community Partnership Grants. The grant opportunity is open to organizations working to address behavioral health needs for children and youth and their families in south Santa Barbara County. Using evidence-based interventions, grantees in the initiative will collaborate on community-based work to increase access and use of behavioral health services and to improve the health and quality of life of adolescents and their families.
Guided by community input collected during Cottage Health’s Community Health Needs Assessment and Listening Tour, the grants program offers a multi-year funding opportunity to grow sustained collaboration and quality outcomes across organizations.
Grant recipients will work collaboratively with Cottage Center for Population Health in a new model for behavioral health care that provides: 1) navigation support to address barriers and make finding and using behavioral health services easier for families and 2) local resources for psychiatry/psychology, buffering supports, and community based behavioral health services.
A grant application workshop will be held virtually on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 from 9-10:30 a.m. to provide more information and support in the grant writing process.RSVP to Alexis Rodarte at arodarte@sbch.org to receive a link to the meeting.
Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 26, 2023. To learn more about the grants and how to apply, visit cottagehealth.org/BHI
About Cottage Health www.cottagehealth.org —The not-for-profit Cottage Health is the leader in providing advanced medical care to the Central Coast region. Specialties include the Cottage Children’s Medical Center, Level 1 Trauma Center, Neuroscience Institute, Heart & Vascular Center, Center for Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Hospital. The Cottage Health medical staff is comprised of more than 700 physicians, many with subspecialties typically found only at university medical centers. Last year, the Cottage Health hospitals in Goleta, Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez Valley provided inpatient care for 19,000 people, treated 81,000 patients through their 24-hour emergency departments and helped deliver 2,000 newborns.