Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development Grants
The Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development Grant program is funded by an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature. A new request for proposals (RFP) for the next grant cycle was released on Jan. 3, 2024: Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development Request for Proposals 2023.
The purposes of the community solutions grant program are to:
- Improve child development outcomes related to the well-being of children of color and American Indian children from prenatal to grade three and their families. This includes, but is not limited to, the goals outlined by the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ early childhood systems reform effort: early learning; health and well-being; economic security; and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
- Reduce racial disparities in children’s health and development from prenatal to grade three.
- Promote racial and geographic equity.
The community solutions grant program works to advance these purposes by funding community-based solutions for challenges that are identified by affected communities.
A community solutions advisory council advises MDH on the development of the community solutions RFP, the selection of grantees, and the management of the grant program.
2020-23 Grantees
MDH funded the following grantees for the 2020-2023 grant period:
- African Community Services
- Centro Tyrone Guzman
- Children’s Dental Services
- Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio
- Division of Indian Work
- Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
- Fond du Lac Tribal College
- Hallie Q. Brown Community Center
- Hmong Early Childhood Coalition
- Indigenous Visioning
- Korean Service Center
- La Red de Educacion Temprana
- Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
- Minnesota CarePartner
- Montessori American Indian Childcare
- Multicultural Autism Action Network
- Network for the Development of Children of African Descent
- Northwest Indian Community Development Center
- Parents in Community Action, Inc
- Red Lake Comprehensive Services
- Roots Community Birth Center
- Tserha Aryam Kidist Selassie Church (TAKS)
- Wicoie Nandagikendan