2024-2025 Child Neurology Foundation Care Advancement Grants in Transition of Care and Care Coordination

$26,000 Grant for Care Advancement/Quality Improvement in Transition of Care or Care Coordination

CNF will be awarding thirteen (13) grants of $26,000 each to institutions and/or clinics for projects improving the patient care experience related to transition of care or care coordination.

Organizations may only submit one application. CNF intends to award 7 applications related to transition of care and 6 related to care coordination. If not enough applications are submitted in one category, the money will be allocated to fund additional projects in the other.

The grant period will run from September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025, with all grant materials due to CNF by October 1, 2025.

Payment of Grant

CNF will pay the grantees the total amount of $26,000 in two (2) equal installments as follows:

(i) $13,000 will be paid within thirty (30) days of the research grant agreement being fully executed.

(ii) $13,000 will be paid within thirty (30) days of CNF's acceptance of the grantee's mid-year grant report submission.

The grant is expected to contribute toward a discrete, specific, measurable initiative to improve either transition of care or care coordination at the home institution over the following year. Examples of initiatives can include research, outreach activities, software purchases, and labor costs.

Preference will be shown to institutions and practices that have a demonstrated interest and commitment to transition of care or care coordination. Additional consideration will be made for institutions already engaged in innovative work in this area, including (but not limited to) incorporating technology, building a care team, and reaching historically excluded populations.

Eligibility is restricted to institutional departments and/or practices within the United States of America that treat child neurology patients.

Please email jnickrand@childneurologyfoundation.org with any questions.

Applications are due by Friday, May 31, 2024.

Institutions will be notified of their status by June 21, 2024.

Grant activities and a final report are due by October 1, 2025.

This opportunity is made possible thanks to our partnership with Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

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* 1. Are you submitting for consideration in Transition of Care or Care Coordination?

Transition of Care

Care Coordination

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* 2. Name and Address of Institution/Practice

Company *

Address *

Address 2

City/Town *

State/Province *

ZIP/Postal Code *

Country *

Phone Number *

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* 3. Name and contact email of staff lead/PI

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* 4. How many neurologists work at this institution?

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* 5. What other members of the care team provide services to your pediatric patient population? (select all that apply)

Advanced Practice Providers

Physical Therapists

Occupational Therapists

Speech Therapists

Social Workers

Care Coordinators

Case Managers

Pharmacists

Other (please specify)

None of the above

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* 6. Approximately how many patients do you care for in child neurology annually?

100 or fewer

101-500

501-999

1000 or more

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* 7. The following questions ask about the kind of patient outreach currently happening at your institution/practice, and are required for completion of this application.

Please briefly describe the transition of care or care coordination activities currently occurring at your practice for the child neurology community. What resources are available for patients and their families? (Suggested: 500 words)

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* 8. How does your institution work to support patients from historically underserved populations? This may include patient populations based on disease state or disability status, race or ethnicity, class or insurance status, and/or other markers of identity. (Suggested: 500 words)

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* 9. Are you aware of any funding your institution has received to perform related quality improvement research? If so, please briefly explain the status of that project and its outcomes. Please write N/A if this does not apply to your institution.

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* 10. If selected, your institution/practice will receive the $26,000 grant to perform quality improvement research to improve transition of care or care coordination.

If awarded the $26,000, how would your institution use these funds? Please provide a brief overview, including the stated goals and outcomes of the project, and how this program will innovatively advance care for children and youth with neurologic conditions and their families at your institution. (Suggested: 250 words)

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* 11. What is your program management plan? What methods will you use to implement this project? (Suggested: 250 words)

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* 12. How will you evaluate the effectiveness of this program? Please explain your evaluation methods for demonstrating the outcomes of this program. (Suggested: 250 words)

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* 13. The grant period will run from September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025, with all related materials due back to CNF by October 1, 2025.

What is the timeline for this project? Please provide an outline of the project's major steps in from the planning to implementation stage, including end-point evaluation and benchmarks along the way.

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* 14. How will you guarantee the completion of this project? What are your anticipated struggles and difficulties, and how do you anticipate addressing these issues? (Suggested: 250 words)

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* 15. Please describe the program implementation team involved in this program--who are the key people involved, and what are their predicted roles?

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* 16. Please upload the CV of the individuals who will be working on the initiative should you receive funding.

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* 17. Please upload the budget you will be using for this project. The budget should include 1) total cost of the project (is this funding part of a larger initiative?), 2) line-item expenses, which may include: employee salaries and benefits, contractual services, travel, supplies, and other costs that can be directly accounted for.

This grant is able to fund up to 10% of total indirect costs. It is not necessary for this grant to include indirect costs. It is not necessary for this grant to include indirect costs. Indirect costs are expenses not directly related to delivering program objectives, but are necessary to support this grant initiative (such as rent, utilities, etc.).

For grant consideration, this budget must show complete usage of the $26,000 and how that may factor in to a larger project.

Please contact jnickrand@childneurologyfoundation.org with specific budget questions, or if you would like a budget template sent to you to build a budget for this grant. SurveyMonkey does not support uploading Excel files, but it may be easiest to perform this task in Excel and then save as a PDF and upload that way. Only PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG, and JPEG files are supported.

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* 18. By signing my name below, I agree that the questions have been filled out truthfully to the best of my knowledge. I understand that I am filling out this application on behalf of an organization that may receive a $26,000 grant to be used for a project within the guidelines stated above, and I am guaranteed neither of these outcomes. Additionally, if awarded the grant, I agree to fill out a mid-year grant report, which will trigger the second half of funding, and a final grant report for information sharing and compliance purposes one year after receiving funding.