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National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

Sustainability Assumptions

Assumptions:

  • Sustainability involves the intentional development of a
    community/state/tribal plan to help ensure continuation of as many successful aspects of the program as feasible beyond the end of the grant funding period.
  • Sustainability is a complex and multi-faceted goal; the process to achieve sustainability should involve many strategies and activities.
  • A sustainability plan must be individual and unique to each grant site.
  • Sustainability does not necessarily mean all of the grant funding or services/supports are continued after the grant ends.
  • Sustainability can be achieved through many avenues such as on-going workforce development and training programs, policy development, administrative rule changes, enacting laws, local policy and procedural changes, expansion of Medicaid funding for early childhood work, ensuring greater family voice, enhanced cultural and linguistic participation and/or the development of strong, on-going state, tribal and community led Councils, to name a few.
  • Sustainability activities require strong champions and clear communication about accomplishments/opportunities/gaps/challenges to help ensure success.