National Community Care Corps Local Models Program

Sara Paige
Info@CommunityCareCorps.org

The National Community Care Corps Local Models Program will provide funding for innovative local models in which volunteers assist family caregivers, older adults, and adults with disabilities to help individuals maintain their independence and age in place. The program intends to fund local models that represent a diverse cross section of the United States in terms of geography; urban, rural, frontier, and tribal communities; and underserved and limited English-speaking populations.

Applications will be accepted for projects in specific stages.

• Model development:
  • Identifying an unmet community need
  • Designing a new local model to meet that unmet need
  • Developing the model's infrastructure
  • Identifying and establishing relationships with community partners
  • Piloting the local model in the community
• Model expansion:
  • Introducing new types of volunteer non-medical assistance
  • Adding new targeted audiences
  • Expanding the model's geographic reach
  • Expanding collaborations and partnerships
• Model refinement:
  • Improving the local model's quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement
  • Utilizing lessons learned and feedback from participants and volunteers to better meet the needs of the community
  • Adjusting strategies to improve outcomes and overall impact

Volunteer services should address an unmet need, be delivered in non-institutional settings, and provide non-medical services. Applicants are encouraged to consider health equity and social determinants of health.

Eligible applicants include:

• Domestic public or private non-profit entities
• Local communities
• State, county, and local governments
• Tribal governments and organizations
• Faith-based organizations
• Community-based organizations
• Hospitals and healthcare systems
• Institutions of higher education
• Local aging services organizations
• Centers for independent living
• AmeriCorps
• Time-banking or volunteer agencies with expertise in the delivery of home and community-based services to older adults and adults with disabilities
• Entities with expertise in the delivery of services and supports to older adults, adults with disabilities, and family caregivers

Award range: $30,000 - $200,000
Project period: 18 months
Match requirement: Cash and/or in-kind match equal to 25% of the total program budget

A link to the application instructions is available on the program website.

Apply using the online application portal.

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