Managed Resources

Managing resources includes overseeing training, staffing, funding, and resource sharing. Monitoring resources is essential to building capacity within organizations. This includes defining what resources are needed and how to sustain existing resources. The Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) can help determine programmatic funding capacity and different types of internal resource sharing. Below is a list of beginner, intermediate, and advanced action your organization can take based on your SPACECAT results.

Beginner Action Ideas

• Review current and potential funding sources for your jurisdiction. Determine gaps in funding sources that could advance work with ACEs, suicide, and overdose prevention.
• Review the budget for your program or agency. Reach out to agency fiscal staff to identify available funding and how existing funding can be leveraged to build capacity in identified areas.
• Conduct a scan of available trainings about ACEs, suicide, and overdose prevention and core programmatic and policy functions. Promote the available opportunities to staff to build capacity within your agency or organization.
  • Examples of training topics include grant writing, legislative policy processes, braiding funding, contracting, or issue-specific focuses.
    - Collaborate with partners experienced in grant writing for guidance.
  • Following trainings, debrief with staff on their learnings and opportunities to put the learnings into practice.
• Sign up to receive federal funding announcement/opportunity notifications from grants.gov.

Intermediate Action Ideas

• Research future funding opportunities that align with your strategic plan or priorities.
  • Are there ways to partner with organizations that already receive funding?
    Review upcoming grants from local and federal funding sources. Apply for ACEs, suicide prevention, and overdose prevention grant funding. Explore funding opportunities with your local university.
  • Federal funding sources include gov, Health Resources and Services Administration, and CDC Foundation. Consider private and philanthropic organizations with missions that tie to the prevention of ACEs, suicide, overdose and/or root causes of those outcomes.
• Conduct a meeting with program areas that work on ACEs, suicide, and overdose prevention about internal resource sharing. Determine if there are areas for improvement in coordination. Examples include shared staffing, contracts, or funding.
• Consistently convene and coordinate with other internal and external partners working on ACEs, suicide, and overdose prevention (and their associated risk and protective factors) to keep efforts aligned across your jurisdiction. Refer to the "Partnerships and Leadership" section in this toolkit for more ideas.
• Research potential business partnerships that may be able to provide funding or other resources. Review the Strengthening Partnerships Between Business & Public Health: A Roadmap to Advancing Community Injury and Violence Prevention for steps to a public-private partnership.

Advanced Action Ideas

• Explore options for intra- or inter-agency arrangements for shared staffing, contracting, and/or resources to work on ACEs, suicide, and overdose prevention.
• Practice continuous quality improvement when reviewing existing funding sources. Consider:
  • Are your funding sources meeting the needs of your program?
  • Are you expending the amount of funds available?
  • Do you need to hire a contractor?
• Strategically identify shared risk and protective factors across public health topics and apply for multiple funding sources that help address them, while measuring the impact on topical outcomes.
• Build relationships with federal funders and philanthropic organizations. Learn what their priorities are and identify potential future funding opportunities.
• Explore braiding or blending funding across multiple sources for a specific program or initiative.
• Research potential for non-traditional partnerships with internal and external organizations for funding, contracting or other activities and/or resources. Examples include chronic disease, infectious disease, environmental programs, or business partners.

Resources

• Funded Programs and Activities | Funded Programs | Injury Center | CDC
• Funding & Awards | Bureau of Justice Assistance Funding Information
• Research Grant Information | American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• NCIPC Budget & Impact | CDC
• Joint Incentive Fund | Military Health System
• NCIPC State-Specific Funding Brief | Safe States
• grants.gov | Safe States
• Cross-Jurisdictional Resource Sharing in Local Health Departments: Implications for Services, Quality, and Cost | Frontiers
• Health Resources & Service Administration Funding | HRSA
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Grant Funding | SAMHSA

Health Equity Questions to Consider

• What funding opportunities may you or your partners have to address health equity?
  • Learn about funding opportunities to address health equity.
  • Review the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s State-Specific Funding Brief.
• Who is involved in managing funds, and what are their priorities when strategically managing funds?
  
  • Review the article, “Integrating Equity in a Public Health Funding Strategy.”
• Are existing processes or standards in place to ensure equitable management of funding resources?
  
  • Learn about state health department injury and violence prevention standards and indicators.
• How does your agency determine the resources needed to address suicide, overdose, and ACEs? Are these processes reflective of a health equity approach? 
  
  • Review the report, “States' Roles in Shaping High Performance Health Systems.”
• Does your team currently braid and layer funding to manage resources?
  
  • Review the video, “Leveraging and Blending Funding.”
• Does your agency support community organizations in addressing suicide, overdose, and ACEs prevention?
  
  • Learn about the Minnesota Department of Health’s Center for Health Equity and review examples of their current and past health equity funding opportunities.
• Has your agency considered opportunities for providing funding to partners or community organizations to address health inequities?
  
  • Learn about Minnesota Department of Health’s 2022 Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative.