VibeWell Ventura County Arts & Wellness Grant Program

The VibeWell Ventura County Arts & Wellness Grant Program aims to support nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in enhancing mental health awareness through creative engagement. Funded by Ventura County Behavioral Health's PEI funds, the program promotes community conversations, reduces stigma, and increases awareness of mental health resources. Projects should connect arts activities to community needs, particularly focusing on underserved populations, and emphasize evaluation processes to ensure positive impacts on mental health.

This grant program opportunity, funded through Ventura County Behavioral Health's Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) funds under the Mental Health Services Act, supports nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in delivering and evaluating programs that increase awareness of mental health conditions and treatment resources through artistic, creative, and cultural engagement. This grant program focuses on general individual and community benefits and public education rather than clinical or therapeutic outcomes. Funded projects are not expected to provide therapy or treatment, but rather to use arts and cultural experiences to foster community conversations, reduce stigma, increase awareness, and promote overall wellbeing.
This grant program, funded through Ventura County Behavioral Health's Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) funds under the Mental Health Services Act, is administered by the Ventura County Community Foundation in partnership with the County of Ventura (County). The program has been established to support nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in delivering and evaluating programs that address mental health needs through artistic, creative, and cultural engagement.
This grant program focuses on individual and community benefits and public education, and not clinical or therapeutic outcomes. Funded projects are not expected to provide therapy or treatment, but rather to use arts and cultural experiences to foster community conversations about mental health, reduce stigma, increase awareness, and promote overall wellbeing of individuals and/or community. Mental health expertise is not required from applicants. The primary objective is to leverage artistic and cultural activities to create positive community impact around mental health awareness. Successful projects will demonstrate a clear connection between proposed arts activities and the programs goals, a strong understanding of community needs, engage with youth and/or historically underserved communities, and a clearly described program evaluation process.