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CALL 988 offers high-quality emergency emotional support to residents in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County, and Carroll County. Anyone who calls the national 988 phone number from this region will immediately be connected to local call centers for safe, supportive and confidential mental health services.

Over time, the new national 988 number will serve as an alternative to calling 911 or going to the Emergency Department for emergency emotional support and will make access to mental health care in the community easier.

CALL 988 is operated by a partnership of Baltimore Crisis Response, Affiliated Santé Group, and Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center. Oversight for the regional helpline is provided by Behavioral Health System Baltimore and behavioral health authorities in Baltimore, Carroll, and Howard Counties.

Local helplines have been providing access to mental health care for more than 20 years in Maryland. Helpline services have been shown to reduce depression and suicidal thoughts while increasing feelings of hope. Most callers can be served on the phone without involving community interventions by other first responders.

Sparked by the long-planned launch of the national 988 number, state and local government, care providers, and nonprofit organizations have worked together to build an integrated regional system that ensures everyone in our community has access to the help and support they need to be mentally healthy.

Hey Everyone! Hope you're doing well. A colleague at Weinberg shared this update on their Baltimore City Community Grants Program. They've doubled the Award size and removed the two year award cap. Could be a great funding opportunity for weaving work.

Hi all! Wanted to share this easy-to-apply funding opportunity:

The Center for Inclusion and Belonging at the American Immigration Council is issuing a Call for Bridging Communities Projects to crowdsource the best ideas and activities in use across the United States that bring people together to work toward the common good while building relationships that help bridge group differences.

We want to learn about innovative local, regional, and/or national-level projects that strengthen the civic life and social infrastructure of communities, bring people together across lines of difference, and build greater trust, civic friendship, and belonging. We are particularly interested in projects where people from different and diverse backgrounds meet in situations where they have equal power, are working toward common goals without competition, and have ample opportunities for consistent, interpersonal interaction over time.

Whether you’re a food bank, community garden or beautification project, house of faith, sports league, veterans' group,  school or PTA, refugee resettlement program, youth-serving organization, local government, business, or something else entirely, we invite you to share your project with us.

Submissions should be about projects you are already putting into practice, not just ideas.  Our review panel will determine if your project is of interest to our participating funders and experts.

An honorarium will be paid to the 10 highest ranked ideas (top idea receives $1,000, 2nd and 3rd each get $500, and the other seven will receive $250).

In addition, if your idea fits our criteria (and you are part of a non-profit organization), you may be invited to apply for a $75,000 fellowship opportunity run by the Center for Inclusion and Belonging (CIB).  If you are not a non-profit, there may still be other opportunities for funding, technical assistance, and recognition.

All submissions will be acknowledged. We will also inform participants of any next steps.

The deadline to submit is March 15, 2022.

LEARN MORE AND APPLY HERE.