Other Projects
Blending and Braiding Your TANF Initiative (BBYT). The Colorado Department of Human Service’s Colorado Works Division is funding the BBYT Initiative with a grant from the Statewide Strategic Use Fund. Joint funding and strategic financing approaches are a key priority in cross-systems efforts to improve access to a broad array of effective prevention, intervention, and treatment services. The BBYT Initiative will research federal and state eligibility requirements and regulations to clarify what uses of TANF funds are permitted and how to maintain compliance while using TANF funds; work with six demonstration sites to provide technical assistance to create individualized, Colorado Works Division approved braiding plans with TANF and one or more additional funding streams to serve low income families; and develop concrete tools and provide statewide training to prepare any interested county to fully use their TANF dollars and braid them with other relevant funding streams.
Prevention Leadership Council Common RFP. CSI analyzed the content and format of over 30 Requests for Proposals (RFP) from five State Departments to identify the best practices and the necessary components for a model RFP. The model RFP will serve as a template for all state grants for prevention, intervention, and treatment services for children and youth. The use of a common RFP template will benefit grant applications in Colorado communities who currently have to navigate the many different application expectations of the various government funding programs.
