Field Work 2025 Application

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Community Context

Help us understand where your project will be implemented and your connection to the rural community (or communities).

State(Required)

Select the state in which your project will be primarily implemented. If your project will be implemented in more than one state or county, provide additional context in the field Connection to Community.

Colorado Counties(Required)

Select the county that your project primarily covers.

Idaho Counties(Required)

Select the county that your project primarily covers.

Montana Counties(Required)

Select the county that your project primarily covers.

New Mexico Counties(Required)

Select the county that your project primarily covers.

Wyoming Counties(Required)

Select the county that your project primarily covers.

Urban County Explanation(Required)

We understand that urban counties often include rural people and places. Because the county you selected is classified as urban, describe how this project will specifically reach and serve rural residents within the county.

Connection to Community(Required)

Name the specific communities where your project will be implemented. Then, tell us about your (or your organization’s) experience working there. For projects that will be implemented in multiple states, county-wide, or virtually, explain your local connection(s).

Project Information

Help us understand the primary purpose of your project and the mental health challenge it will address.

Description of Problem(Required)

Briefly describe the specific mental health or social well-being problem your project will address, and provide local evidence of how it is a problem in the community (or communities).

Primary Purpose of Project(Required)

Select the option that best describes the primary purpose of your project. You will be able to describe it more later.

Preventing and responding to mental health concerns

Increasing access to and/or awareness of mental health and social well-being services

Deepening meaningful social connections for the specific purpose of improving mental health outcomes

Project Purpose(Required)

Briefly summarize the purpose of your project.

Project Leader(s)(Required)

Who will be leading the project, and why are they well-positioned to design and deliver the solution? If this project will be supported through a partnership with another individual or organization, tell us about the others involved.

Participants and/or Audience(Required)

Who will participate in and/or benefit from the project?

Project Components(Required)

What are the core components of your project, and how will they be delivered? If your project is an expansion or iteration of an existing program or service, please describe the expansion and iteration.

Place and Space(Required)

In what community location(s), or types of location(s), will your project take place?

Promotion(Required)

How will local residents be made aware of the project or invited to participate?

Innovation and Learning

Please help us understand the most innovative aspect of your project and what, specifically, you hope to learn about it.

Innovation Statement(Required)

Select the statement that describes the most innovative aspect of the project.

The project is guided by an unlikely leader or unique partnership.

The project helps people who often face barriers to mental health support.

The project uses unique components or delivers materials in a novel way.

The project uses unlikely spaces to offer services and activities.

The project uses creative approaches to improve awareness of programs and services.

Project Innovation(Required)

For the innovation statement selected, tell us what makes your project different from other projects like it.

Learning Goal(s)(Required)

What, specifically, do you want to learn about the innovation?

Evaluation Approach(Required)

What specific data or information will you use to determine if, and how, the most innovative aspect of your project made a difference?

Project Timeline and Activities

Describe the major activities you will undertake and when they will occur.

Timeline of Activities(Required)

Briefly list the activities required to plan, implement, and evaluate your project. Example: Design recruitment strategy and recruit participants (July-Aug); develop session materials (Aug); hold sessions with participants (Sept-Feb); request feedback from participants (Feb); report learnings to LOR (April 2026).

Project Implementation Date(Required)

Estimate the project implementation date. This is the date you will be able to provide verification that your activities are underway. This date must be no later than Sept. 30, 2025.

YYYY

Project End Date(Required)

Estimate the project end date. This is the date all activities, including evaluation, are complete. This date must be no later than Aug. 1, 2026.

YYYY

Budget

When providing your project budget, enter the specific items and/or services that LOR's funding will be used for, along with the cost of each item or service. Funding is available between $1,000 and $25,000. The total requested amount across all categories must not exceed $25,000.

Professional Services

Example expenses: Contractors to help manage or complete a project. Professional services cannot include compensation costs for existing staff.

This project has professional services costs.

Total Cost for Professional Services(Required)