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FAQ - Illinois Healthy Resilient Communities Grant
- Are past awards listed anywhere?
- I could not find the complete NOFO in the CSFA Number: 482-00-3662 announcement?
- Where can the complete NOFO be found?
- I was not able to participate on the technical assistance webinar, July 24th at 9:30am, was the webinar recorded?
- Where are the instructions for setting up an EGrAMS account?
- Can a grantee be in the city of Chicago or Cook County?
- I am seeking funding for a new mobile unit that we can take to a variety of organizations across our service region, does this funding fall within those guidelines?
- Can you discuss the purpose of this grant?
- Do lead agencies choose and develop partnerships around a specific Social Determinants of Health to address?
- Does IDPH anticipate additional years of funding for this project as the state budget allows?
- Our agency is a not for profit and we will be working with the local health department, what is your expectation in the budgeting? Should the local health department be a sub-grantee or a subcontractor and what is the difference between sub-grantee and subcontractor?
- How are we supposed to ensure our interventions line up with the SHIP and I plan? Do we pick one data source or both data sources? Are they supposed to line up with both?
- Our organization would be using the funding to conduct community clinics but not using a mobile van. Plus partnering with established community partners, say the Spanish Community Center, Boys and Girls Club, and we would be doing screenings and health services at these partnership sites. Would that still qualify as mobile unit that wellness on wheels type of activity?
- Can two health departments apply for the funding opportunity together? The two health departments already have like a coalition that works together. The two health departments would work on an implementation plan since we already have the collaboration.
- On page 5 of the NOFO “Commingling of funds between separate grants or subgrants, even if the grants or subgrants are related or the same population is being served.” Is prohibited.
- On page 11 of the NOFO, under program-specific mandatory forms, #2 is Evidence of 501c3 status”. Is this a requirement of this grant? It is not one of the items listed in the Eligibility Information section on page 3.
There was a pilot program and for more information you may visit our website at https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/provider-partner-resources/healthy-illinois/hez-grant.html
Click on this link: https://gata.illinois.gov/grants/csfa.html?page=Opportunity.aspx&nofo=3123
Then scroll to the bottom to the Attachments click on the link Opportunity.pdf
You may find it at the Illinois Catalog of State Financial Assistance at this link https://gata.illinois.gov/grants/csfa.html?page=Opportunity.aspx&nofo=3123
You may also find it in EGrAMS in the HRC application under ‘Show Documents’.
Yes, if you were not able to participate on the technical assistance webinar live you may view the recording at our CMHS website at https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/life-stages-populations/minority-health.html
Go to www.idphgrants.com On the left side there will be a list of links click on ‘Register your Agency’ after you do that you will have to click on ‘Create User Profile’.
Program work for this NOFO should be focused outside of Cook County and the City of Chicago. This includes subcontractors and sub-grantees.
Mobile units do not fall under the scope of the Illinois Healthy Resilient Communities Grant. Funding for this type of work would fall under our Wellness on Wheels grant funding opportunity that closed on July 9th. Please make sure that you register for grant opportunity notifications at www.idphgrants.com under ‘Grant Opportunity Notification’.
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to support the partnership development, expansion and place-based interventions that address social detriments of health and populations that experience health disparities. This initiative will provide funding for awardees for either capacity building or implementation. The capacity building component focuses on partnership development and program planning including the development of a logic model. The implementation component focuses on the partnership expansion and program implementation using the logic model and evaluation.
These multi-sectorial partnerships (collaborative of partners) will work to address a health disparity within a geographic area, with the goal of creating healthy resilient communities (HRCs). Awarded HRCs will receive funding and technical assistance to support the work of multi-sectoral collaboratives in planning or implementing public health preventative solutions to high-priority health disproportions within a geographically defined space and community.
We hope that the state budget will allow for more years of budget for this type of programming.
The local health department only needs to be a sub-grantee (means an award provided by a pass-through entity to a subrecipient for the subrecipient to contribute to the goals and objectives of the work plan by carrying out part of the work plan of the awarded pass-through entity) or subcontractor (performing a service for the awarded entity in order to complete an activity in the awarded entity’s work plan ) if you are giving them part of your funding. They do however need to be a partner and give you a letter of support stating what they will be doing as a partner in achieving the grant’ work plan objectives.
The funding for this grant is more than direct services and screenings you must have a health education component and show by the data what activities are needed most in your community.
Yes, that is fine. Just make sure that the region is not too big that you don’t meet the goals or needs of the community.
It is not a requirement of this grant to be a Not-for-Profit organization. If your agency is a Not-for-Profit organization then you must upload evidence of 501c3.
