On June 3, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee awarded 27 area organizations $244,942 in grants for this year’s Trinity Health Foundation Phase I awards. These grants will be used to plan community health-related projects that will compete for Phase II implementation grants later this year. Close to 70 proposals were received from regional nonprofits and ranked by the Trinity board on impact and merit. Issues addressed include community partnerships to address behavioral and mental health, wellness, and addiction; youth initiatives on mental health, addiction, ACEs, housing access; access to care for vulnerable populations; serving the servants; and open topics. These groups will use the Phase I funding to research and plan project operations and sustainability, culminating in a proposal that includes funding for Phase II implementation.

This year, both large organizations and small organizations are being awarded grants. Thirteen Phase I large grants and fourteen small grants will go to nonprofits across the community. This year’s recipients and their projects include:

• Adopt-A School/ Partners in Education – Equipping Educators Who Equip Our Children
• Alliance for Integrated Awareness – High-Quality, Advanced Training for Mental Health Professionals
• Arts for All Tennessee – Theater My Way: Expanding Access to the Arts to Support Inclusive Youth Wellness
• ASAP of Anderson County – Youth Resiliency from Prevention to Recovery Through Coping Conversations
• Compassion Counseling – Hope Program
• Evergreen Community Development Corp – Young Moguls
• FOCUS Ministries – Bridging Reentry: Expanding Access to Mental Health Care for Justice-Involved Women
• Girls Inc. of Tennessee Valley – From Trauma to Thriving: Evidence-Based Therapeutic Programming for High-Risk Girls
• Girls on the Run of Greater Knoxville – Expanding Access to Youth Mental Health and Physical Activity Programs for Girls in East Tennessee
• Good Neighbors of Blount County  – Invest in Me Initiative (I’m In)
• Guided Path Terminal Cancer Support – Aid for Cancer Patients Through Community Compass
• SoulBridge – SoulBridge: Expanding Affordable, Trauma-Informed Mental Health Care in East Tennessee
• Three Rivers Collaborative – Flourishing Church Leaders Initiative
• YOKE Youth Ministries – From Campus to Community: Expanding Mentoring Relationships for Middle School Students

• Battlefield Farm – The One Five Grocery Store
• Centro Hispano de East Tennessee – Expanding Preventive Health Access for Latino Children and Families in the Greater Knoxville Region
• CONTACT Care Line – Care Suicide Intervention Training: Connect, Ask, Respond, Engage
• Emory Valley Center – Prevention and Early-Intervention Initiative
• Family Investment Foundation – Transforming Western: Expanding Healthy Food Access Through a Neighborhood Grocer
• Hold On To Hope –  Hold On To Hope: A Pilot Model for Early Support to Families of Missing Persons
• Men of Valor – From Trauma to Flourishing: A Community Partnership for Mental Health and Reentry in East Tennessee
• Pat Summitt Foundation  – Caring for the Caregivers
• Remote Area Medical – Focus on Access: RAM’s Digital Optometry Mobile Unit
• The Restoration House – Family Systems Research & Integration Project
• The Salvation Army, Knoxville Area Command – Planning a Community Care Hub to Serve the Homeless
• TN Voices – Thrive Transition Program

• Phase II selections will be made in October!

• Phase II selections will be made in October!