New Strategic Direction:
What does this mean for your
organization?
Staunton Farm Foundation
Questions for Organizations
• How will SFF’s new strategies impact your organization?
• How can these strategies strengthen your organization or provide
new opportunities?
• How can they advance the behavioral health field?
• What suggestions do you have for SFF?
Mission
The purpose of the foundation shall be to carry into effect the intent and
purpose of the Last Will and Testament of Matilda S. McCready through
grants to appropriate educational and charitable institutions, or by direct
expenditures, for the study and treatment of persons suffering from
curable neurotic functional disorders, mild mental and kindred ailments
or recovery there from and for educational and charitable purposes in
connection therewith.
Vision
Previous: Investing in a future where mental illness is understood,
accepted, and acknowledged as a common and treatable condition.
Revised: Investing in a future where behavioral health is
understood, accepted, and supported.
Some strategies will remain
unchanged. . .
The Foundation will continue to fund in Southwestern Pennsylvania:
Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana,
Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties with same grant
distribution guidelines.
Some strategies will remain
unchanged. . .
Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are grants up to $25,000 for capacity
building. Capacity building refers to developing and strengthening
resources organizations and communities need to survive and adapt in
today’s environment.
Active, past, and new grantees are eligible to apply.
Examples include: Evidence-based trainings, hiring consultants, and
exploring partnerships and mergers.
Some strategies will remain
unchanged. . .
Host the bi-annual Rural Behavioral Health Conference, but for
professionals only.
The next conference will be Friday, October 28, 2016 at the Hilton
Southpointe.
More information to follow.
Some strategies will remain
unchanged. . .
The Albert B. Craig Award will be awarded every year. The purpose of
the award is to recognize people who have challenged society to think
in fresh ways about problems and solutions in behavioral health. It
provides a cash prize of $5,000 to an individual or organization. The
awardee is recognized at the Foundation’s annual meeting and through
public announcements.
The following grants will be
re-evaluated:
• Staff positions without a concrete sustainability plan.
• Pilot programs that are not evidence-based or do not have the
ability to become scalable.
• Large capital campaigns.
• A project budget that is 100% of the grant request or the majority of
the annual operating budget.
• Individual trainings.
• Research without community implementation.
Time Frame for Implementation
• New strategies will be phased in during FY 2016.
• By 2019, all new strategies will be implemented.
• Funding for population based priorities (rural, access,
and criminal justice diversion) will slowly phase out,
but RFPs will continue.
New Strategies
The Foundation determined greater impact can be made by working
with systems impacting behavioral health.
SFF developed strategies that move away from population based
approaches.
New Strategies
Communicate:
Grants to educate the general public about current issues, as well as
offer resources to change the conversation about behavioral health.
Examples: Create/ share anti-stigma messages to change public
perception/ policy; provide opportunities for dialogue; build
understanding and acceptance; improve practice by disseminating
knowledge and promoting a culture of learning.
New Strategies
Collaborate:
Grants for collaboration with multiple stakeholders to learn/train as a
region. SFF will act as a convener and a neutral facilitator.
Examples: Provide funding to new projects which identify unusual
partners support; integration of behavioral health; develop trainings
that support multiple organizations rather than one; work with local
colleges/ universities to develop workforce
New Strategies
Innovate:
Grants that advance the field and use evidence-based practices* and
approaches to improve outcomes.
Examples: Use of technology to advance the behavioral health field/
improve outcome measures; bringing practices to scale across region
*Evidence-based practices is defined by three categories: 1.) Included in Federal registries of
evidence-based interventions; 2.) Reported (w/ positive effects on the primary targeted outcome) in
peer-reviewed journals; or documented effectiveness supported by other resources of information
and the consensus judgement of informed experts. (SAMSHA’s Strategic Prevention Framework- State
Grant Incentive Program) https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA09-4205/SMA09-4205.pdf
New Strategies
Advocate:
Grants promoting policies to improve treatment, especially for
underserved populations, and extend the efforts of those supporting
and advancing policy change.
Examples: Policy (not lobbying); giving voice to providers and
consumers; developing white papers; gathering data to support policy
change
Questions for Organizations
• How will SFF’s new strategies impact your organization?
• How can these strategies strengthen your organization or provide
new opportunities?
• How can they advance the behavioral health field?
• What suggestions do you have for SFF?
We Would Like to Hear from
You!
What are your questions as SFF moves forward with the new
strategic plan?
Contact Info
Joni Schwager, Executive Director
jschwager@stauntonfarm.org
Bethany Hemingway, Program Officer
bhemingway@stauntonfarm.org
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