**COMMUNITY ACTION GRANT RECIPIENTS:**
The **Community Action Grant** was open to nonprofits and organizations working in the mental health space. Organizations applied for up to **$25,000** in funding, and initiatives must align with one of five key focus areas: Behavioral Health Workforce Development, Equitable Access to Treatment & Resources, Grassroots Peer-to-Peer Programming, Awareness & Anti-Stigma Initiatives and Youth Mental Health.
Recipients in 2025 include:
* **Coburn Place Safe Haven** (Indianapolis). Funds from this grant will offset individual therapy costs for the Health & Wellness Program, which offers culturally responsive programming to domestic abuse survivors and supports service costs for the Coburn Health and Coburn Thrives programming.
* **Cummins Behavioral Health Systems** (Indianapolis). This grant will cover therapeutic services for low-income students that attend Avondale Meadows school and SENSE Charter school.
* **Hamilton Southeastern Education Foundation** (Fishers, Ind.). Funds from this grant will cover the costs for SPACE mental health training for two social workers in the school system so they can be better equipped to serve their students.
* **Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide**. This grant will fund suicide prevention programming to teach youth how to recognize signs of depression in themselves or someone else and what to do if they or a friend is struggling with thoughts of suicide.
* **Irvington Counseling Collective** (Indianapolis). This grant will help make mental health services available through low barrier counseling services, stigma reduction efforts, community outreach and the creation and management of multiple mental health related mutual aid funds.
* **Overdose Lifeline** (Indianapolis). Funds from this grant will cover the costs of peer support programming at Heart Rock Justus Family Recovery Center for a year.
* **Recovery Café Muncie** (Ind.). The grant will help expand Recovery Café's peer-to-peer programming, in addition to providing training and materials needed to add additional peer recovery coaches.
* **Suncrest Peaks** (Lafayette, Ind.). This grant will be used to fund mental health treatment for current and retired first responders, as well as their family members. The funding also will be used to provide educational materials promoting awareness and reducing stigma among first responders.
* **The Cabin Counseling & Resource Center** (Zionsville, Ind.). Funds will be used to provide counselors with advanced training and cover the costs for clients in need of financial assistance.
* **We Bloom** (Indianapolis). The grant funding will be used to support _Recovery Circles: Peer-Led Pathways to Healing and Belonging_ programming over the next year for 500 We Bloom members.