Due Dates and How to Apply - Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky

Coordinated School Health Initiative 
RFQ - Kentucky’s School Health Services Report
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is currently in the fifth year of a seven-year Coordinated School Health Initiative aimed at developing policies that support healthy schools in the Commonwealth. In Kentucky schools, health services - one element of the Coordinated School Health model -  are provided through a variety of means with many and varied funding sources, providers and duties performed. Additionally, many districts have little or no service, especially in the areas of oral health and mental health services (including substance abuse treatment). To better understand the diversity of practices and funding streams, and highlight promising approaches, the Foundation seeks to contract with a capable research group to gather, analyze and report on information on how Kentucky's school-based health services (including mental health and oral health) are funded, provided, and staffed.

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) is soliciting response to a defined set of requirements intended to result in clear and useful data describing the health services provided within the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s public school districts. The resulting report will be readily accessible to interested parties throughout the state, and searchable on a district basis. This RFQ requires the successful applicant to have knowledge of how to access relevant, credible school health information in the Commonwealth of Kentucky from sources in and outside the school districts.

Follow the links below to view/download a copy of the RFQ and the proposal Cover Sheet.  

KY Health Services RFQ (pdf)
Cover Sheet (Word)

Access to Health Care Initiative
Bringing Healthcare within Reach: Increasing Access to Comprehensive Primary Care Services 

In 2008, the Board has set aside more than $550,000 for planning and implementation grants to address the policy area of access to comprehensive primary care services. In future years, funds will be added, to support further efforts to implement promising strategies. 

The aim of this policy effort is to find cost-effective ways to:

  • Create a more seamless, less fragmented system of health care in Kentucky 
  • Assure access to affordable, quality medical, dental and mental health services in locations readily accessible to residents of the Commonwealth
  • Assure that quality care is provided in the least intensive manner needed to address the care-seekers’ health needs

Many communities in Kentucky have access to the services of federally-qualified community health centers, rural clinics or school-based health centers; many others do not. This Request for Proposals (RFP) provides opportunities to support initial planning efforts in communities new to issues of developing low-cost community-based health services, while offering communities that are further along in the process further opportunity to address and overcome obstacles to clinic creation and operation.  At the end of this five-year initiative, it is our goal that some of Kentucky’s least-served areas will have access to comprehensive, quality primary care.

In 2008, special consideration will be given to the efforts of civic leaders in Kentucky’s most underserved communities, including but not limited to those in Todd, Edmonson, Hart, Clay, Wolfe, Union and Leslie Counties, interested in planning for cost-effective delivery of comprehensive, quality primary care services. Follow the links below to view/download a copy of the RFP, the proposal Cover Sheet and a sample budget form. All Letters of Intent for Phase I funding must be postmarked by October 27, 2008. 

Access to Care Primary Care RFP (pdf)
Cover Sheet (Word)
Budget (Excel)


 
Matching Grants

Matching grants are intended to make it possible for an applicant to attract resources to the Commonwealth from an external funding source – private or governmental – to improve the health and access to health care of Kentuckians.  In 2008, approximately $300,000 has been set aside for this purpose.  Click here to view the 2008 Matching Grant Guidelines.  This initiative is ongoing.