Youth Healing Project Mini Grants

The Youth Healing Project Mini Grants, funded by the King County Department of Community and Human Services, empower young leaders aged 14-24 in King County to tackle mental health challenges. This initiative supports grassroots projects that enhance youth agency, community well-being, and coping strategies. By prioritizing small youth-led efforts, the project aims to dismantle inequitable systems and provide vital resources for innovative solutions that improve the lives of young people, especially those from marginalized communities.

About this funding opportunity
Young people, and particularly young people of color, face many barriers to power. Yet they have some of the most critical and immediate insights into the challenges that young people are facing. The Youth Healing Project is a youth-led community funding effort, originally developed in 2020 in response to the survey “In Their Own Words: Young People Describe the Impacts of COVID-19.”
The project provides resources and support to small grassroots young leaders advancing solutions that improve the mental health, connection, and wellbeing of young people ages 14-24 in King County. Partners include King County Reconnect to Opportunity, Public Health-Seattle and King County’s Cannabis, Tobacco, and Prevention Program, Best Starts for Kids, citiesRISE, and the Community Center for Education Results. One way we work to share power is through our Youth Healing Project awards that fund young people directly with small grants to launch their own projects. The Youth Healing Project focuses on funding projects that support the mental health of young people.
Priorities for this program include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Increased youth leadership, empowerment, and agency.Improved community well-being .Youth have increased knowledge and use of healthy coping strategies.

Eligibility

This request is open to applications directly from young people aged 14-24. To receive funding, youth will need to identify a 501c3 fiscal sponsor organization during or after (if notified of award) the application process.  Youth applicants are encouraged to work with organizations they are already connected to and trust or to reach out to us if they need help finding an organization. You will not be deprioritized or lose points if you have not already identified your fiscal sponsor.