Prevention Sponsorships
Healthy Lamoille Valley is pleased offer prevention sponsorships to the Lamoille Valley community, made available from the Region 3 Vermont Prevention Lead Organization grant. Applications for 2025 are now closed. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates when applications reopen for 2026. If you need assistance or have questions, email jessica@healthylamoillevalley.org.
HLV Prevention Sponsorship Application Form
Who can access these funds?
- Individual community members (you will need a fiscal sponsor, please contact jessica@healthylamoillevalley.org for more information)
- Schools (Including clubs and sports teams)
- Childcares
- Afterschool programs
- Libraries
- Municipalities
- Community third space organizations
- Community non-profits (including sports clubs if they have a non-profit status)
- Faith-based organizations
Process
- Submit the HLV Prevention Sponsorship Application Form to hlvsponsorship@lamoillefamilycenter.org (feel free to include your own sponsorship or advertising form, and a W9 or equivalent)
- Forms received by the third Friday of the month will be reviewed that month, otherwise forms will roll to the next month
- Steering team will review and make decisions by 4th Friday of the month
- Form will serve as the invoice for the LFC business office
- Funds coming from Northeast VT Prevention Consortium Lead grant
- In general, funds will be available within two-three weeks from approval
- If the event doesn’t happen or fewer funds are used, there will be a process for returning funds or requesting a plan B
List of priorities to be addressed (select all that apply in your application):
- Priority 1: Reduce underage substance use (alcohol, cannabis/marijuana use) i.e. youth recovery supports, screening and early intervention, school-based prevention
- Priority 2 – Not applicable to our region
- Priority 3: Reduce adult high risk substance use. i.e., Focus on healthy stress reduction and coping skills, influence on children, driving while impaired
- Priority 4: Increase support for LGBTQ youth, i.e., schools and supervisory unions to enhance or launch a Genders & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) group at a local school; determining school readiness & capacity for implementing a GSA; community, parent/caregiver, educator training; supporting LGBTQ youth focused support groups
- Priority 5: Create a community where youth and adults feel valued, connected, and supported, i.e., focus on decreasing stigma for getting help for mental health and/or substance use; reducing isolation, particularly for older adults; and building youth resiliency and youth connectedness as protective factors
Note: All sponsored activities must be fully substance-free. Substance-free includes no substances served or used at the event (including legal adult-use substances), no portrayal of substances, no gifts of substances, and no marketing of substances.
Reporting:
- A short report is required within two weeks of completion of the project
- Please submit a brief summary report to hlvsponsorship@lamoillefamilycenter.org, subject: HLV Sponsorship Report
- Provide number and age of youth served/adults served
- Short summary of program/event – to be sent within two weeks of event
- Optional – any pictures you’d like us to highlight on website (please ensure that any youth in pictures have parental permission)
