Community colleges can apply for grants from SAMHSA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Interventions of programs in substance abuse are particularly focused on young adults. Grants are available for community colleges to strengthen suicide prevention efforts, deliver comprehensive community mental health, and provide access to recovery resources. Funding can be highly competitive. Provide details of how the college currently addresses these issues in the application process. Consult with the technical assistance centers at SAMHSA for help with documentation in the application. Ask about multiple, collaborative grant applications to support the college's efforts to build capacity for health and wellness program implementation.
The U.S. Department of Education has grant opportunities to provide access to learning programs for all students. Community colleges can apply for consideration as a learning community. Community colleges access a wide demographic of students. This information should be included in the grant application. These grants are administered primarily through state agencies. Apply for these grants in collaboration with state educational departments to strengthen the application. Some grant awards require matching funds. When applying for educational grants to support health and wellness programs at a community college, the college must be prepared to demonstrate matching awards from other sources for educational grants that have this matching requirement. The capacity to meet matching requirements should be determined by the community college's administrators.
Apply for several, diverse grants and support future grant applications by maintaining accurate records. Federal grants agencies that provide grants are found at grants.gov. Health and Human Services (HHS) is one of these 26 agencies that accept applications at this site. Health and wellness departments at community colleges have an opportunity to influence their students and their families through childcare facilities, as well as their educational programs. Look for grant programs to augment the college's current programs, and facilitate new interventions within the learning community. Examples of health grants from HHS include Healthcare Communities Knowledge Gateway, Interventions And Practice Research Infrastructure Program, and Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control: Research to Inform Policy.