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Approve Mini -Grant Application for 2025-2026 Preventative Block Grant (PBG)
Program Funds for Northern Colorado Regional Assessment Collaborative
Partnership and Authorize Department of Public Health and Environment to Submit
Electronically
Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, pursuant to
Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of
administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and
Whereas, the Board has been presented with a Mini -Grant Application for the 2025-2026
Preventative Block Grant (PBG) Program Funds for the Northern Colorado Regional
Assessment Collaborative Partnership from the County of Weld, State of Colorado, by
and through the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, on behalf of the
Department of Public Health and Environment, on behalf of Larimer County, to the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Public Health
Practices, Planning, and Local Partnerships, with further terms and conditions being as
stated in said application, and
Whereas, after review, the Board deems it advisable to approve said application, a copy
of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County,
Colorado, that the Mini -Grant Application for the 2025-2026 Preventative Block Grant
(PBG) Program Funds for the Northern Colorado Regional Assessment Collaborative
Partnership from the County of Weld, State of Colorado, by and through the Board of
County Commissioners of Weld County, on behalf of the Department of Public Health and
Environment, on behalf of Larimer County, to the Colorado Department of Public Health
and Environment, Office of Public Health Practices, Planning, and Local Partnerships, be,
and hereby is, approved.
Be it further resolved by the Board that the Olivia Egen, Department of Public Health
and Environment, be, and hereby is, authorized to electronically submit said application.
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2025-2399
HL0058
Mini -Grant Application for 2025-2026 Preventative Block Grant (PBG) Program Funds for
Northern Colorado Regional Assessment Collaborative Partnership
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The Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, approved the above
and foregoing Resolution, on motion duly made and seconded, by the following vote on
the 25th day of August, A.D., 2025:
Perry L. Buck, Chair: Aye
Scott K. James, Pro-Tem: Aye
Jason S. Maxey: Aye
Lynette Peppier: Aye
Kevin D. Ross: Aye
Approved as to Form:
Bruce Barker, County Attorney
Attest:
Esther E. Gesick, Clerk to the Board
2025-2399
HL0058
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
PASS -AROUND REVIEW
PASS -AROUND TITLE: Community Health Survey Preventative Block Grant
DEPARTMENT: Public Health & Environment DATE: August 18, 2025
PERSON REQUESTING: Jason Chessher
Brief description of the problem/issue:
WCDPHE has developed a regional collaborative of stakeholders to improve coordination around data
collection and data sharing for purposes. WCDPHE has received previous CDPHE funding to start this
collaborative and now seeks to apply for $50,000 in the 2025-2026 grant cycle to continue the project.
What options exist for the Board?
The Board can choose to approve, or not approve, this request.
Consequences: Approval of this request will permit WCDPHE to pursue continued funding to continue
the work of the regional collaborative, including collecting focus group data to gain a deeper
understanding of Weld County Community Health Survey results.
Impacts: The collaborative project is fully grant funded, so declining the grant application will stop
further progress on the data sharing project.
Costs (Current Fiscal Year / Ongoing or Subsequent Fiscal Years): Activities will be conducted by
temporary staff or contractors paid by grant funding. No county funding or additional FTEs are requested.
Recommendation: I recommend approval to place this item on a future BOCC agenda for formal consideration.
Support Recommendation Schedule
Place on BOCC Agenda Work Session Other/Comments:
Perry L. Buck
Scott K. James
Jason S. Maxey
Lynette Peppier
Kevin D. Ross
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2025-2399
H LOOS
The Office of Public Health Practice, Planning, and Local Partnerships,
Preventive Block Grant FY2025-26 Mini -Grant
Application Due Date: September 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM
This will be filled out on a Google Form
Section 1
1. Email: oegen@weld.gov
2. Your local public health agency name: WCDPHE
3. Name of person completing mini -grant Google Form: Olivia Egen
4. Title: Public Health Initiatives Manager
5. Preferred Point of Contact Email: oegen@weld.gov
6. Phone number: 970-400-2387
7. Amount of funding requested: $50,000
8. Fiscal Agent contact information: Bill Fritz, Public Health Finance Director,
bfritzgweld.gov , 970-400-2122
Section 2 - Partnership/Individual LPHA Inquiry & Preliminary PBG Budget
9. Will your project be conducted by a partnership, district, or single county LPHA:
Partnership
10. Upload the preliminary budget for the proposed project here. TBD
Section 3 - Partnership Information
11. LPHA Partnership contact information, if different from RFA Google form information
on first page: same
12. What is the name of the partnership your agency is part of: Larimer & Weld Regional
Assessment Collaborative
13. Which LPHAs are a part of your partnership? Weld and Larimer County
14. New Partnership — Describe the motivation or intent for this partnership: N/A
15. Existing Partnerships — How would you like to see the partnership improve? n/a
The mission of this existing but still relatively new partnership is to improve our
community's health in Northern Colorado through collective action around data,
assessment, and health improvement. Collaborative members understand that health does
not recognize county borders and that improving population health regionally requires
attentive and strong, multi -sector partnerships. Local public health agencies, health care,
and behavioral health care providers want to better serve their clients and communities by
exchanging information and data, coordinating our assessment and planning activities,
and sharing and partnering around resources. This funding will help us do that.
Section 4 — Core Public Health Service(s) (Foundational Capabilities and Services)
16. Core Public Health Service(s) being funded? Check all that apply: Assessment and
Planning, Partnerships, Health Equity & Social Determinants of Health
17. If this supports Assessment and Planning Foundational Capability, what CHAPS
phase are you in? Phase 3
18. Justification: How will this funding help overcome challenges you are facing in your
selected CPHS efforts and what is needed to overcome them long term? (20 PTS)
The Larimer Weld Regional Assessment Collaborative members acknowledge that:
• Health and public health are regional,
• Everyone is working on a common purpose (to improve resident's health) and wants to
work together, and
• Organizations are interested in moving further along the spectrum of collaboration
One challenge has been to be more strategic and regionally focused with our assessment and
planning work given each organization's constraints. An example of this type of challenge is
simply that most funds received by local health departments (and others) usually have to be
spent in their respective jurisdictions even though we know that the general population's
health is affected by things within and beyond county borders. Because of these funding
constraints, it can be difficult to partner and align on assessment activities regionally. This
funding would allow us to partner on conducting some joint assessment activities around a
topic of concern in all of Northern Colorado — mental health.
Also, we often need timely, useful and more contextual information from residents we don't
frequently hear from regarding their lived experience related to their health needs and
concerns. Community voices are essential to achieving a better understanding of the trends
and data from both counties to further broaden understanding of the general population data
we have.
To overcome these challenges, we want to gather more in-depth qualitative data from one or
more hard -to -reach populations across the region to expand on the data already collected
locally and statewide (Goal 1). We are finalizing the plans, but the plan is to collect data in
Spring 2026. We know that one possible topic of importance to gather additional, in-depth
information on is mental health access and wellbeing. We will continue to closely collaborate
with mental health and other key agencies in the region to identify the most pertinent topics
to explore. With this funding we would contract with a qualified vendor to conduct focus
groups and provide us with transcripts, notes, and themes as well as a more formal analysis
of the rich contextual data.
Another related challenge has been trying to better align our goals, objectives, and activities
regionally. Historically, mental health and mental health care access has been a priority of
many of the hospital systems and local health departments' Community Health Improvement
Plans (CHIPs) following their CHA/CHNAs. However, limited formal collaboration on
CHA/CHNAs and CHIPs has occurred. However, the RAC is working together to better
align local health care, behavioral health, and public health organizations around this
important topic. For example, in 2024, the Larimer Weld RAC set a goal to report on a
common set of behavioral health metrics as part of each members community health needs
assessments so that a more consistent view of behavioral health outcomes could be provided
for the region in the near future. Since then, a workgroup was formed, met five times, and
agreed on sharing common messages regarding the following four metrics:
• Poor Mental Health Days
• Barriers to Receiving Treatment
• Drug Overdose Rates
• Suicide Mortality Rates
Working together with a focus on behavioral health outcomes is a start towards the long-term
goal of better aligning our CHA and CHIP efforts regionally (Goal 2). For this grant goal, the
workgroup plans to finalize the messaging, develop a communication plan, and host at least
one regional meeting in 2026 to bring further awareness to the most pressing behavioral
issues based on local and regional data.
19. Project Design/Methodologies: What procedures and activities will be included in
your project to achieve your goals over the next year? (15 PTS)
In addition to helping generally (but minimally) support the ongoing work of the Larimer
Weld RAC to implement its five-year workplan, this year's project funds will primarily be
used to help with our regional qualitative data collection project.
Activities include planning, scheduling, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating the
findings from the regional qualitative data collection project. Additionally, the qualitative
data collected will need to be aligned with other data sources to provide a better picture of
how both counties hard -to -reach residents experience health and health issues in Larimer and
Weld County. This will require meetings, presentations, and reports that need to be created
by health department staff. The data collection vendor will take the findings from their data
collection and prepare a report as well as give presentations to our collaborative. Findings
from the qualitative data collected will then be included in local community health
assessments and health department staff will share these combined results with community
partners (in both counties). A beneficial outcome will be the better understanding of key
health issues by stakeholders in both counties through the creation of presentations and
reports specific to mental health and mental health care topics of interest for hard -to -reach
groups that utilize data from the regional qualitative data collection project.
Finally, this LPHA partnership aims to strengthen and improve partner and stakeholder
engagement in the Larimer Weld RAC through structure, efficient meetings, agreements, and
delivery of high -quality data products (to be determined by the collaborative).
Deliverables for the grant include timely final workplans, budgets, and grant reports.
20. Feasibility: How will this funding be spent to achieve your goals? (Personnel,
project activities timeline, and budget expenditures congruent with project
description and outcomes.) (15 PTS)
This funding will be used to support funding for a qualified vendor to conduct qualitative
data collection, for some salaries of health department and/or contracted staff to carry out the
activities of the plan. By funding these activities, a better understanding of key health issues
of great importance to our not as often heard from communities can be realized. Stories on
mental health and mental health care access effects and concerns can be shared with the
broader community to further complement the data gathered from the general population.
The funding of salaries is not due to any loss of state funds for these staff. Other costs
incurred for this project will be paid by Weld and/or Larimer County Government. Any
unspent funds will be returned to OPHP.
21. Assessment/Evaluation: How will assessments/data be collected and used to
demonstrate (the) degree to which outcomes are met? (15 PTS)
Once funds are received, a final workplan with SMART goals and objectives and a final
budget will be developed. The workplan will identify the activities, timelines, and
performance indicators, and who is responsible for each goal and objective. Once the
workplan is complete with process and outcome measures, health department staff will
monitor and document the work to ensure on -time completion of objectives.
Weld and Larimer staff will communicate regularly to monitor progress on the workplan and
report the degree which outcomes were met to OPHP in reports and other communication as
needed. The Larimer and Weld RAC has received previous OPHP PBG funds and has
successfully completed their previous workplan goals using this process.
From: Google Forms
To: Qlivia Egen
Subject: OPHP Preventive Block Grant (PBG) FY25-26 Mini -Grant application
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:14:12 PM
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Thanks for filling out OPHP Preventive Block Grant (PBG)
FY25-26 Mini -Grant application
Here's what was received.
OPHP Preventive Block Grant (PBG)
FY25-26 Mini -Grant application
Purpose
The Office of Public Health Practice, Planning, and Local Partnerships (OPHP) invites you
to app y for the OPHP FY 2025-26 Preventive Block Grant (PBG) via this Mini -Grant
Application Google form.
Please see the Mini Grant Application Guidance Document for Application details and
rubric. Link: https://docs.goog e.com/document/d/1 Ltfr5iTYOGPBnZ =
fAJoaaFO90gr0QzJ/edit?
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Instructions
Pre -Application Meeting: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 10 am - 11 am (see guidance link
for details)
Please complete this form by Friday, September 5, 2025 at 11:59 pm, to be considered for
awarc. (***only submissions in this form will be considered, no emailed applications
please!)
*All responses require a preliminary
1. All a • ; 'cation responses require a prelirntni
template ;form from the OPHP PBG webpage_•
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2. Please brnit one application per partnership, if you are applying
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4. OPHP
will be sent once OPHP has received the NOA (anticipating mid September).
Post -Award PBG Deliverables:
--Work Plan and Budget: (three submissions): October 30, 2025 (initial submission of
formal work plan and budget); April 30, 2026 with mid -point report, and August 31, 2026
with final report.
--LPHA project specific deliverables (e.g. public health promotion materials, position
description, etc.)
--Meetings: (two meetings) post -award kickoff meeting in October and one prcgress
meeting during the year; at which the LPHA will share a 3 minute presentation of their
project. Group progress meetings to be held in January, April, and July.
-- Jun 30, 2026 provide general ledger showing PBG funds spent down thus far and
projected spend down.
If you have any questions or would like an overview of the funds, feel free to email
ophp@state.co.us.
PLEASE NOTE:
This funding is separate from OPHP's Local Planning and Support Funding delivered
annually via our funding formula and master contract. The PBG funding is from the CDC's
Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and project requests are made through
this mini -grant process. The PBG funds are federal dollars and are subject to federal
funding guidelines, rules, and regulations. The PBG funding cycle runs from October 1st to
September 30st.
***OPHP is still awaiting the CDC NOA. This funding is contingent on receiving -he NOA.
Thank you for taking the time to submit!
Email *
oegen@weld.gov
Your local public health agency name *
Weld County Dept. of Public Health and Environment
Name of person completing mini -grant Google Form? *
Olivia Egen
Title *
Public Health Initiatives Manager
Preferred Point of Contact Email
oegen@weld.gov
Phone number *
970-400-2387
Amount of funding requested
49,999.74
Fiscal Agent contact information, if different from above:
Include agency name, contact name, title, email, and phone number
WCDPHE, Bill Fritz, Public Health Finance Manager, bfritz@weld.gov , 970-400-2122
Partnership/Individual LPHA Inquiry & Preliminary PBG Budget
se e prov = emp a o up oa your pre mmary u g e u ge s ou o nein . - at ow e
money will be spent, such as where funds are going, titles of positions funded, prices of materials, quantity
of materials, names of specific materials and shipping
Will your project be conducted by a partnership, district, or single county
LPHA?
0 Partnership: multiple LPHAs
District (one LPHA with multiple counties)
Single County LPHA
Download and complete the preliminary budget using the provided template
here:
htlps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-zLcJz78d86sf62Oo 7eVsAZXwfOsws5/edit?
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Upload the preliminary budget for the proposed project here
Submitted files
OPHP PBG Budget_FY25-26_Larimer Weld RAC - HECP.xlsx
Partnership Information
LPHA Partnership contact information, if different from RFA Google form
information on first page:
Include agency name, contact name, title, email, and phone number
What is the name of the partnership your agency is a part of? *
Larimer & Weld Regional Assessment Collaborative
Which LPHAs are a part of your partnership? *
Larimer & Weld counties
New Partnerships: Describe the motivation or intent for this partnership.
Existing Partnerships: How would you like to see the partnership improve?
The mission of this existing but still relatively new partnership is to improve our
community's health in Northern Colorado through collective action around data,
assessment, and health improvement. Collaborative members understand that health
does not recognize county borders and that improving population health regionally
requires attentive and strong, multi -sector partnerships. Local public health agencies,
health care, and behavioral health care providers want to better serve their clients and
communities by exchanging information and data, coordinating our assessment and
planning activities, and sharing and partnering around resources. This funding will help
us do that.
Core Public Health Service(s) (Foundational Capabilities and Services)
I?ttps://cdphe-Ipha.colorado.gov/resources/resou rces-by-core-service
Core Public Health Service(s) being funded [Select all that apply] *
Assessment & Planning
• Communications
0,., Policy Development & Support
® Partnerships
in Organizational Competencies
Ei Emergency Preparedness & Response
® Health Equity & the Social Determinants of Health
Communicable Disease Prevention, Investigation & Control
ci Environmental Public Health
• Maternal, Child, Adolescent & Family Health
O Chronic Disease, Injury Prevention, & Behavioral Health Promotion
El Access to and Linkage with Healthcare
If this will support the Assessment & Planning Foundational Capability, what
CHAPS phase are you currently in? Check all phases that apply. *
Phase 1: Plan the process
Phase 2: Equity and community engagement
® Phase 3: Conduct a community health assessment
1"i Phase 4: Assess capacity
El Phase 5: Prioritize issues
Phase 6: Develop a plan
Phase 7: Implement, promote, and monitor
r —rye Phase 8: Participate in statewide public health improvement opportunities
1 }₹ Not using this funding for Assessment & Planning
Justification: How will this funding help overcome challenges you are facing
in your selected CPHS efforts and what is needed to overcome them long
term?
The Larimer Weld Regional Assessment Collaborative members acknowledge that: •
Health and public health are regional, • Everyone is working on a common purpose (to
improve resident's health) and wants to work together, and • Organizations are interested
in moving further along the spectrum of collaboration One challenge has been to be
more strategic and regionally focused with our assessment and planning work given
each organization's constraints. An example of this type of challenge is simply that most
funds received by local health departments (and others) usually have to be spent in their
respective jurisdictions even though we know that the general population's health is
affected by things within and beyond county borders. Because of these funding
constraints, it can be difficult to partner and align on assessment activities regionally.
This funding would allow us to partner on conducting some joint assessment activities
around a topic of concern in all of Northern Colorado - mental health. Also, we often
need timely, useful and more contextual information from residents we don't frequently
hear from regarding their lived experience related to their health needs and concerns.
Community voices are essential to achieving a better understanding of the trends and
data from both counties to further broaden understanding of the general population data
we have. To overcome these challenges, we want to gather more in-depth qualitative
data from one or more hard -to -reach populations across the region to expand on the
data already collected locally and statewide (Goal 1). We are finalizing the plans, but the
plan is to collect data in Spring 2026. We know that one possible topic of importance to
gather additional, in-depth information on is mental health access and wellbeing. We will
continue to closely collaborate with mental health and other key agencies in the region to
identify the most pertinent topics to explore. With this funding we would contract with a
qualified vendor to conduct focus groups and provide us with transcripts, notes, and
themes as well as a more formal analysis of the rich contextual data. Another related
challenge has been trying to better align our goals, objectives, and activities regionally.
Historically, mental health and mental health care access has been a priority of many of
the hospital systems and local health departments' Community Health Improvement
Plans (CHIPs) following their CHA/CHNAs. However, limited formal collaboration on
CHA/CHNAs and CHIPs has occurred. However, the RAC is working together to better
align local health care, behavioral health, and public health organizations around this
important topic. For example, in 2024, the Larimer Weld RAC set a goal to report on a
common set of behavioral health metrics as part of each members community health
needs assessments so that a more consistent view of behavioral health outcomes'could
be provided for the region in the near future. Since then, a workgroup was formed, met
five times, and agreed on sharing common messages regarding the following four
metrics: • Poor Mental Health Days • Barriers to Receiving Treatment • Drug Overdose
Rates • Suicide Mortality Rates Working together with a focus on behavioral health
outcomes is a start towards the long-term goal of better aligning our CHA and CHIP
efforts regionally (Goal 2). For this grant goal, the workgroup plans to finalize the
messaging, develop a communication plan, and host at least one regional meeting in
2026 to bring further awareness to the most pressing behavioral issues based on local
and regional data. Lastly, members of the Larimer and Weld Regional Assessment
Collaborative are committed to maintaining this partnership beyond the grant period as
is evidenced by the development of its charter and five-year workplan (developed in
2024). Each member organization has committed to providing staffing support for the
project and are actively looking for funding opportunities for other objectives in its
workplan.
Project Design/Methodologies: What procedures and activities will be
included in your project to achieve your goals over the next year?
In addition to helping generally (but minimally) support the ongoing work of the Larimer
Weld RAC to implement its five-year workplan, this year's project funds will primarily be
used to help with our regional qualitative data collection project. Activities include
planning, scheduling, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating the findings from the
regional qualitative data collection project. Additionally, the qualitative data collected will
need to be aligned with other data sources to provide a better picture of how both
counties hard -to -reach residents experience health and health issues in Larimer and
Weld County. This will require meetings, presentations, and reports that need to be
created by health department staff. The data collection vendor will take the findings from
their data collection and prepare a report as well as give presentations to our
collaborative. Findings from the qualitative data collected will then be included in local
community health assessments and health department staff will share these combined
results with community partners (in both counties). A beneficial outcome will be the
better understanding of key health issues by stakeholders in both counties through the
creation of presentations and reports specific to mental health and mental health care
topics of interest for hard -to -reach groups that utilize data from the regional qualitative
data collection project. Finally, this LPHA partnership aims to strengthen and improve
partner and stakeholder engagement in the Larimer Weld RAC through structure, efficient
meetings, agreements, and delivery of high -quality data products (to be determined by
the collaborative). Deliverables for the grant include timely final workplans, budgets, and
grant reports.
Feasibility: How will this funding be spent to achieve your goals? (Personnel,
project activities timeline, and budget expenditures congruent with project
description and outcomes.)
This funding will be used to support funding for a qualified vendor to conduct qualitative
data collection, for some salaries of health department and/or contracted staff to carry
out the activities of the plan. By funding these activities, a better understanding of key
health issues of great importance to our not as often heard from communities can be
realized. Stories on mental health and mental health care access effects and concerns
can be shared with the broader community to further complement the data gathered
from the general population. The funding of salaries is not due to any loss of state funds
for these staff. Other costs incurred for this project will be paid by Weld and/or Larimer
County Government. Any unspent funds will be returned to OPHP.
Assessment/Evaluation: How will assessments/data be collected and used
to demonstrate degree to which outcomes are met?
Once funds are received, a final workplan with SMART goals and objectives and a final
budget will be developed. The workplan will identify the activities, timelines, and
performance indicators, and who is responsible for each goal and objective. Once the
workplan is complete with process and outcome measures, health department staff will
monitor and document the work to ensure on -time completion of objectives. Weld and
Larimer staff will communicate regularly to monitor progress on the workplan and report
the degree which outcomes were met to OPHP in reports and other communication as
needed. The Larimer and Weld RAC has received previous OPHP PBG funds and has
successfully completed their previous workplan goals using this process.
Thank you! We appreciate your time and description of your partnership
funding needs.
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