Request for Grant Application Hospital Based Violence Intervention HB4045

This funding opportunity supports planning for and development of HVIPs outside of Multnomah County via seed grants to establish partnerships between CBOs and health systems. Grant funding may be used to support staffing, planning, training, and certification of credible Peer Messengers with lived experience to provide HVIP services, and organizational capacity building. There are two grant tracks: Track 1 (Readiness and Capacity Development) and Track 2 (Implementation Planning). Allowed activities include regular attendance at the HVIP Expansion Learning Communities, documenting and sharing program successes and challenges, convening meetings to explore HVIP partnerships, strategic planning, hosting community meetings, reviewing data, identifying inclusion criteria, business planning, identifying existing related services, identifying culturally specific service providers, conducting organizational capacity assessments, developing position descriptions, recruiting Peer Messengers, conducting background checks, developing memoranda of agreement, developing contractual relationships, holding training for hospital staff, and developing documentation and standards for program processes.