Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program

Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program is sponsored by CU Anschutz School of Medicine. This program supports innovative wellness projects with strong potential to improve well-being in targeted populations and empower Department of Medicine faculty, staff, and learners to enhance team well-being through quality improvement.

Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program The goal of this program is to: Support innovative wellness projects with strong potential to improve wellbeing in targeted populations. Empower the Department of Medicine faculty, staff, and learners to enhance team wellbeing through quality improvement.

We will fund up to four 12-month grants of $2,500 each. Priority goes to projects with clear rationale, scalability, and feasibility within budget and timeline. Projects with significant external funding will be less competitive.

Projects may align with Strategic Pillars or explore other wellness topics. Possible domaines include but are not limited to: All awardees will be invited to dinner with the chair of the Department of Medicine at the end of this program to present their findings.

Many thanks to the University of Colorado’s DOM Research Office and General Internal Medicine Small Grants Program; the Michigan Medicine Wellness Office; and Northwestern University’s Wellness Champions Program for their inspiration, assistance and guidance in the development of this program.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria: All faculty, staff and learners within the University of Colorado Department of Medicine are eligible to apply for the Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program. Collaborators outside of the Department of Medicine are allowed. The Project Lead must have an appointment within the Department of Medicine.

An MD or PhD is not required to be a Project Lead or collaborator. Collaborative projects are welcomed across different roles, teams, divisions in the Department of Medicine as appropriate. Collaborators must be involved in the preparation of the proposal and the execution of this project.

WellDOM Champions may apply but must have a collaborator outside of the WellDOM champions. DOM-affiliated learners are invited to apply (e.g., post-doctoral students, PhD students, DOM-affiliated professional students). Individuals from traditionally under-represented communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Priority will be given to projects with a strong rationale; that have the potential to be scaled to larger populations; and that can be achieved within the specified budget and timeframe. Projects that have already received significant external funding will be less competitive.

Application Requirements: Proposals should be 3–5 pages and include the following: Previous work not required but please include if applicable Specific Aim (s) with Hypothesis (es) Please include project timeline Discussion of potential impact and scalability Description of Project Team Member Backgrounds and Roles for this project Brief Budget Overview and Justification References should be included but will not be counted against the page limit.

Please include the CV of the Project Lead; this will not be counted against the page limit. The final application should be submitted as a single compiled PDF . Please title your PDF as (without the quotation marks): “ Last Name_Project Title ”.

The direct costs allowed for most individual grants will be up to $2,500 . Up to four grants will be funded in this first cycle. Projects are limited to 12 months .

Extensions will be considered on a case by case basis. Allowable costs include, but are not limited to: essential project supplies; project/research assistant costs; costs of data collection, data entry, and analysis.

Costs not allowable without special justification include investigator salaries; cost of reprints, journals; or basic office Format application materials as a single PDF with materials in the following order: Application Document (see Application Requirements section for details) CV or Resume of Project Lead Please title your PDF as (without the quotation marks): “ Last Name_Project Title ”.

Submissions for this cycle closed March 17, 2023 The application is due by March 17, 2023 at 11:59 p. m. MST Early February 2023 – Program Launch, Applications Open March 17, 2023 – Applications Due by Midnight MST April 2023 – Study Section to Meet May 2023 – Announcement of Awardees May/June 2023 – Funding begins for Awardees Kristin Jensen , MD, MSc (Kristin.

Jensen@cuanschutz. edu) and Katherine Morrison , MD (Katherine. 2.

Morrison@cuanschutz. edu). Questions?

Please contact Alesia El Ali , CRA (Alesia. ElAli@cuanschutz. edu) or Jennifer T.

Kemp , PhD (Jennifer. T. Kemp@cuanschutz.

edu). Applicants whose projects are funded under this program will be expected to: Awardees will be required to seek COMIRB approval for projects from which publishable results or conference presentations are expected/desired. Participate in periodic progress check-in meetings (virtual) with Wellbeing and Engagement Small Grant Program leadership.

Provide a one-page progress report six months after initiation of the project. Provide a final progress report after completion of the project. We may ask you to participate in long-term follow-up so that we can document the project’s success.

Present the findings of their project at appropriate forums. For example: a monthly WellDOM champions meeting, appropriate division or Department of Medicine Research Day poster sessions, and/or relevant regional or national meetings. All awardees will be invited to dinner with the chair of the Department of Medicine at the end of this program to present their findings.

2023 WellDOM Small Grant Awardees “Tune Out the Noise” Aims to reduce cognitive load, increase efficiency and attention, and overall improve the experience and wellbeing of the CARE Clinic Advanced Practice Providers through the creation of an ergonomic toolkit that will reduce distractions, noise and physical discomforts of the small yet high-acuity clinic.

“CU Women in Cardiology” Our WellDOM Small Grant will allow us to engage female cardiology faculty, fellows and residents in a career development and professional support group to improve the sense of connection, resilience and mentorship among women in cardiology. Stacey A.

Seggelke, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC “Improvement of Glucose Management Team Provider Wellbeing Through Feedback from Patients and Providers” Primary AIM: To assess and improve GMT provider wellness through receipt and assessment of patient, provider and RN satisfaction surveys.

“An Interactive Program to Improve Mental Health and Provide Suicide Prevention Education to Young Professionals” The goal of our project is to create a system that will promote a sense of community, decrease feelings of isolation, and provide important resources to help improve mental health and provide suicide prevention education to research personnel within the Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine Division.

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