We Give Our Community More

At SilverSummit, we understand that it is incumbent upon us to support our community through financial investments in organizations that serve our Members and the community. The SilverSummit Community Investment Program does just that. 

NEW IN 2025: Children and Adolescent Specialty Program

SilverSummit Healthplan’s Community Investment Program’s goal is to provide support to providers, community-based organizations, and municipalities that are making an impact on children and young adults with behavioral health conditions, and those that are part of the Foster Care population. Through this funding, we aim to improve outcomes for Nevada’s children by supporting innovative and evidence-based programming.  Awards will go to agencies and providers serving the target population including families with children being treated for behavioral health conditions, and foster families caring for Foster Care children.

Foster Care is a temporary court monitored service designed to promote safety, permanency, and well-being for those children and youth with the goal of reunification or finding permanent placement.  Children most at risk for needing Foster Care placement are those that have been neglected, abused, or abandoned, youth with behavioral health conditions, as well as justice-involved youth. 

POPULATION BEING SERVED:

  • Persons aged 0-21
  • Children and adolescents in foster care or at risk for foster care involvement
  • Young adults who aged out of the foster care system
  • Children and adolescents with a behavioral health diagnosis
  • Children and adolescents who have recently discharged from treatment for their BH condition in a restricted setting such as inpatient hospital or residential treatment facility
  • Children and adolescents with juvenile justice involvement
  • Children and adolescents in need of crisis services to address their behavioral health condition
  • Families in need of supports to preserve the family unit or facilitate family reunification
  • Caregivers such as foster parents and kinship caregivers in need of supports to stabilize the placement of a child in the home.
Timeline

Award Range: Up to $25,000

The 2025 application process is now open.

  • June 2025 — Awardee Notifications. Successful applicants will be notified via email. 
  • June - December 2025 — Program Operation 
  • January 31, 2026 — Program Outcome Report Due (Year-End Report)                                                                                                          

Eligibility Requirements

Candidates must legally operate a Nevada based 501(C)(3) organization, or be an educational institution, municipality, or a Nevada Medicaid provider. The SilverSummit Community Investment Program funding can serve Nevadans in all counties. Funds do not have to be spent on SilverSummit Members.

SilverSummit Healthplan will not consider investments for:

  • Individuals
  • Non-Nevada Medicaid Provider For-Profit Organizations, including start-ups
  • Political action committees, candidates, causes or lobbying
  • Labor, alumni, or fraternal groups
  • Medicaid providers currently under SIU investigation
  • Funding programs / services outside of Nevada

Investment Priorities

Applications for programs that do not target the population being served, or do not fall within the stated investment priority areas, will not be reviewed.  Investments will be awarded to support existing programs. Investments for new programs will not be awarded.                           

Please note: The traditional Community Investment Program investment period will open in August 2025 for organizations that do not qualify for this Community Investment Program.                                                                         

1. Therapeutic Supports

  • Non-traditional therapy (i.e. equine, art, music)
  • Youth Recreation – Summer Camp and after school programs  specifically designed for adolescents with complex behaviors
  • Respite for treatment foster care families
  • Respite for children and adolescents with special healthcare  needs  such as developmental disabilities, Autism, and complex  medical conditions.                                                                                                                                                                                                       

2. Transition-Aged Youth

  • Supports to assist young people transitioning to independent living
  • Supports to assist young people as they transition from the pediatric to adult health care system
  • Supports for peer support programs specific to young adults                                                                                                                                 

3. Family Stabilization

  • Family preservation funding for families to prevent removal of children into foster care, and families with foster care children (eviction assistance, stabilization)
  • Caregiver capacity building (parenting support programs, financial literacy training, workforce readiness skill mbuilding)
  • Basic needs Navigation and Support (supports to access food, childcare, transportation, or other emergency assistance)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

4. Training and Program Development

  • Supports for family peer support specialists, including training and mentorship
  • Family empowerment initiatives, such as: Nevada PEP program; Parent mentorship programs; teaching families to advocate for children in their care; communication and family problem solving  
  • Behavioral health evidence-based practice training, for example MST, High Fidelity Wraparound, and TBRI                                             

5. Workforce development

  • Programs to recruit and retain foster parents
  • Programs to develop work-related skills for young people in, or aged out of, foster care to enter the workforce
  • Programs intended to recruit and retain healthcare providers serving children and youth in the target population                            

6. PRTF/Residential

  • Innovative quality and family engagement programming to facilitate a smooth discharge and prevent readmission                      

7. Wraparound Supports

Wraparound case management and community supports, such as: 

  • Transportation — non-emergency transportation that is not  currently a Medicaid covered benefit (i.e. funding is        allowed for transportation to social service needs) Intensive In-home behavior management services 
  • In-home/in-person youth crisis support                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Proposal Evaluation

SilverSummit has established a Community Investment Program Selection Committee comprised of SilverSummit leaders and a community member.

The Selection Committee consistently scores each proposal based on the following criteria:

  1. Applicant is eligible to apply.
  2. Applicant answers each question with clear, simple and plain language.
  3. All technical requirements have been met.
  4. Cultural Competency
    • Program approach meets culturally competent standards
    • Program materials and services provided in the language of the individuals who will be served
  5. Evidence-Based
    • Program is evidenced-based and maintains fidelity to that standard
  6. Outcomes-Oriented
    • Applicant clearly demonstrates ability to collect metrics and measure outcomes
    • Applicant demonstrated previous outcomes achieved

Proposal Technical Requirements

Organizations must submit one PDF proposal to the Community Investment Program Application digital portalExternal Link. The portal will require specific details about the organization, and provides the ability to upload the application. The application must be submitted in one PDF document. Applicants will have the option to email themselves a copy of the application once it has been submitted. This option is available at the end of the submission process within the online portal. A confirmation message will display once the application has been  successfully submitted.  Application portal linkExternal Link                                                                                                                 
For technical questions about submitting an application on the digital portal, please contact: CommunityInvestments@HartzogConsulting.com

Proposals should provide a straightforward, concise delineation of capabilities to satisfy the requirements of the SilverSummit Community Investment Program. Expensive color displays, promotional materials, etc., are not necessary ordesired. 

Technical Requirements:

●  Proposal should not exceed 6 pages, excluding the Budget Template. Charts, tables, and graphics are not included in      page count.
     - One-inch margins
     - 12-point Calibri font (smaller font is permissible for charts, tables, and  graphics)
     - Single line spacing within a paragraph and one blank line between paragraphs
     - A header and/or footer on every page with Applicant name and page number

For assistance in completing the Proposal, please reach out to the Community Solutions team.

Proposal Content Requirements

Pro-Tip: Answer ALL the questions, in the order presented.  Prior to developing your response, carefully review the evaluation criteria above and address these areas in your responses.  Please reference the Proposal Development Guide for additonal detail.

Page Limit: 1/2 page
Points: Pass/Fail (0 points allocated)

Briefly describe your organization, including the type of organization, mission/purpose, geographic area(s) served, types of programs provided and target population served.

Page Limit: 1/2 page
Points: 10/100 points allocated

Briefly describe the needs your organization will address, based on the selected priority area(s), including any research and data to support the need.

Page Limit: 2 pages
Points: 50/100 points allocated

Provide a detailed description of the program, including but not limited to:

  • Target audience
  • Geographic area(s) to be served 
  • Program description
  • Number of anticipated clients/recipients
  • How the program will meet the cultural and diverse needs of all its participants
  • How the program addresses a specific health disparity, if applicable
  • Program timeline 
  • Citations of evidence-based practices that the program follows

Page limit: 2 pages   

Points: 30/100 points allocated

Note: Awardees are required to submit a final report, due January 31, 2026.  Use the following guidelines as a template to complete this section.  The goals, actual outcomes, amd metrics must be provided in the year-end report.

1.     Program's goal statement

2.    Previous outcomes (if applicable):

        ●     Provide previous outcomes that this program has achieved.                                                                                      ●     Include the timeframe asscoiated with these outcomes. If available, provide year-over-year improvements                    the program has acheieved, and provide information on changes made to improve.                  

3.    Expected Outcomes                                                                                                                                                         Identify the outcome(s) that the program is expected to achieve. For each outcome, provide the following details:

         A. Provide the specfic outcomes that the program will achieve (by number and/or percentage)                                     1. Establish the baseline for this outcome                                                                                                                         2. Define the metric(s) that will be collected to track progess toward this outcome

        B. Define how the metric(s) will be collected

        C.  Provide the expected increase/decrease (by number and/or percentage) to reach the target(s) provoded                    for this outcome

Page Limit: 1 page narrative, plus the Budget Template

Points: 10/100 points allocated

SilverSummit recognizes the funding challenges that non-profits and other organizations are currently experiencing given changes in the funding landscape. As a result, we will be funding indirect costs at 15% of the total budget. Please do not include additional indirect costs in your budget. For example, do not include the CFO’s salary in your budget, unless the CFO is actively engaging with the program’s participants.

  • Complete the Budget Template.
  • Explain how the program will be sustained without future funding from SilverSummit.
  • Describe and justify all line items in the completed Budget Template.

Pro-Tips:

  • Do not request funding in excess of the stated funding range. Requests in excess of the stated funding range will not be considered.
  • Do not exceed the 15% allotment for indirect costs.

Application Attachments: Are additional attachments required beyond the details listed on the web site – the narrative responses listed, and the budget template? No, there aren’t additional attachments required. Our goal is to streamline the process so that the Selection Committee can conduct a complete analysis based on the requested application requirements. Submitting attachments that cause the application to fall outside of the requested page number count can cause the application to fail the technical requirements review.

Budget Template’s “Other Funding Sources”: Are other funding sources required? No, additional funding sources are not required, however the Committee is interested in additional resources that will be allocated to the initiative beyond the funds being requested. The committee is interested in the long-term sustainability of the proposed programming. 

Budget: If awarded, can the organization use funding differently than what was outlined in the proposal? The funds should be spent based on what is indicated in the proposal, unless approval is given. Awardees will be required to submit bi-annual reports to provide metrics, outcomes, and updates.

Payments: Are payments paid through reimbursement? No, a lump-sum payment is provided once the awards have been made.

Reporting: Are investment recipients required to submit reports if funding is awarded? Yes, failure to submit reports by the required deadlines can impact future funding. Year-end reports must include the results of the goals and outcomes provided in the application.