The Fourth AnnualScattergood Innovation Award
For your convenience, we have provided a version of the Innovation Award application as a word document. Please use this document to draft your application so that you will be able to save your work and return to it at your leisure. Enter your response into the gray fields below. The field will with expand with your answer. Once you have completed your application, you may copy and paste your answers into the online application.
The Scattergood Foundation will only accept online applications.The application can be found at Once you have submitted your application on the website it cannot be sent back to you.
Basic Information
- Sponsoring Organization*
- Name of Innovative Program*
- Innovative Program/Organization Website*
- Name of Innovative Program Lead*
- E-mail Address of Innovative Program Lead *
- Phone Number of Innovative Program/Organization*
- Physical Address of Innovative Program*
- Nominator’s Name (If different from Program Lead)
- Nominator’s E-mail Address (If different from Program Lead)
- Nominator’s Affiliation (If different from Program Lead)
Application Content
- Project Description:Provide an overall description of the Innovative Program. * (1000 characters or less)
Access, Quality, and Cost
Please explain how your innovative program is related to improving behavioral health care access, quality, and cost.
12. How does the innovative program work to improve behavioral health access? * (1000 characters or less)
Access is defined as the timely use of health services to achieve the best health outcomes. Health care access may address: gaining entry into the health care system, getting access to sites of care where consumers can receive needed services, and/or finding providers who meet the needs of individual consumers and with whom consumers can develop a relationship based on mutual communication and trust.
- How does the innovative program work to improve behavioral health quality? * (1000 characters or less)
Quality is defined as getting the right care to the right consumer at the right time. Quality may include aspects of: safety, timeliness, effectiveness, and/or efficiencies.
- How does the innovative program work to address behavioral health costs? * (1000 characters or less)
Cost is defined as a combination of health care expenditures and health care waste. Health care costs may address the increasing demands for health care based on the population's overall health.
Criteria
Please provide further insight into your project by providing information related to the following criteria.
- Creativity and Innovation:Innovation exhibits originality, ingenuity, and resourcefulness in addressing the health promotion area specified.*(1000 characters or less)
- Leadership:Design and implementation provides direction that other organizations can emulate to address similar behavioral health areas. Extent to which the innovation and its leaders actively encourage other organizations to engage in similar initiatives indicated.*(1000 characters or less)
- Sustainability:Resources and support are available for the innovation. Include informationon capacity-building and existing partner organizations that have a vested interest in the continuation of the program.*(1000 characters or less)
- Replicability:The innovation has the potential to be effectively duplicated, transferred, or adapted by institutions/organizations with similar competencies and for target populations with similar demographic profiles. *(1000 characters or less)
- Results/Outcomes:There are specified measures developed to evaluate the performance of the innovation. *(1000 characters or less)
- How would the sponsoring organization use the $25,000 award? Please share how the program or organization may use the $25,000 award. *(1000 characters or less)
(This is not a binding statement and will not be shared with the judges or public.)
For Inquiries Contact: Caitlin O’Brien, Special Projects Manager, Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation via email at .