Kaiser Permanente Awards $6M in Grants Focusing on Mental Health

Kaiser Permanente Southern California announced a $6 million, five-year Community Mental Health and Wellness Initiative with an immediate Local Partnership Grant (LPG) grant allocation of $1.28 million to combat and improve access to mental health services. The initial grant allocation is funding a group of two-year grants to support 16 nonprofit community partners working to improve mental health and wellness in under-resourced Southern California communities.

The grant will award approximately $80,000 to each of the 16 nonprofit community partners to aid these organizations that are representing the clinical, social service, advocacy, public, and primary and secondary school sector in Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. These organizations’ efforts include:

• Improving access and connection to care to mental health services in clinical and community settings.
• Enhancing and building the current and emerging mental health workforce to meet community mental health needs.
• Reducing self, public, and institutional mental health stigma and boosting resilience in individuals, communities, and organizations.

Jewish Family Service of the Desert, Family Service Association and Riverside University Health System – Public Health will use grant funding to improve mental health and wellness throughout the Riverside County area.

The complete list of all 16 community grant recipients of the Local Partnership Grant are:

• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
• Mental Health of America of Los Angeles (MHALA)
• National Alliance for Mental Illness Orange County
• Cajon Valley Union School District
• The Achievable Foundation
• Jewish Family Service of the Desert
• Foothill Family Services
• California State University, Bakersfield
• California State University, San Bernardino
• Family Service Association
• Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc.
• Riverside University Health System – Public Health
• Mental Health of America of Los Angeles – Antelope Valley
• Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles
• Village Family Services (VFS)