Parent Education and Support Program

1. Increase parents’ knowledge of infant and child development, parenting skills and children’s health needs.
2. Increase access to services and resources that support the health and well-being of young children and their parents/ caregivers.
3. Strengthen parent/caregiver-child relationships and improve child and maternal socio-emotional well-being.

This program is part of the Healthy Beginnings Focus Area.

Grants support projects that:

• Implement or expand childhood development education, parenting skills and supportive resources for parents of children up to age 5 enrolled in Medi-Cal.
• Are facilitated by trained educators and/or promotores/parent leaders.

Strengthen your application

Applicants who demonstrate one or more of the following will strengthen their grant application:

• Commitment to linguistic and cultural competence in program implementation.
• Use of evidence-based practices.
• Commitment to strategies that promote health equity.
• Leveraging other funding sources and initiatives.
• Evaluation of access to preventative health services and/or health outcomes.

Applicants must meet the minimum eligibility requirements for the Medi-Cal Capacity Grant Program (see Eligibility Guidelines).

Applicants must also be one of the following:

• A 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
• A community group with a fiscal agent that is a 501(c)(3).
• A governmental entity.
• A local education agency.

Eligible applicants must serve a significant volume of Medi-Cal members in the Alliance service area.

An applicant is limited to one Parent Education and Support Program grant award, which may be used to implement model(s) at more than one site.

Amount

The Alliance will consider funding projects up to $100,000 per grant.

Term

Program timelines should be no more than 24 months.

Program timelines are defined as the date the project scope of work begins (after grant award date) to the date of project completion.

Funding will be considered for expansion of programs already in progress. However, activities completed or costs incurred prior to approval of the grant request by the Alliance will not be considered. A program budget may contain costs for more than one site.

Eligible expenses

Examples of eligible expenses include:

• Personnel/consultant expenses for individuals with direct responsibilities for the parent education/support program.
• Staff training and development.
• One-time purchase of equipment and/or technology dedicated to program implementation.
• Programmatic costs (materials, non-cash participant incentives, mileage, etc.).
• Data reporting and evaluation.
• Indirect costs up to 15% are eligible and may be included in program budget.

Visit our How to Apply page for deadlines, instructions and the online application form.

Applications require submission of financial statements, including:

• Audited financial statements for the last two fiscal years.
• An organizational profit and loss statement and balance sheet for the last 12 months.

If audited financial statements are not available, applicant should provide a rationale for not performing an annual audit and upload their company or organization’s most recent tax return or Form 990.