Camp Collaboration

Camp Collaboration 2024 brought together over 80 campers from 30 organizations for cooperation, crafts, and coffee. In addition to all the fun, a total of $100,000 was awarded to ten Collaboration Challenge grantees.

2025 Collaboration Challenge

  • 2025 Collaboration Challenge Grant Request for Proposals will open May 2025.

  • Review grant guidelines

2024 Collaboration Challenge Grant Awardees

Each project earned $10,000 to support the prenatal - age three
systems of care in Porter County

  • Healthy Beginnings Porter County

    • Mental Health America Northwest Indiana, Porter County Health Department, Porter County Fetal Infant Mortality Review

  • Early Connections: Building Home-School Connections from Birth

    • Parents as Teachers Porter County, Portage Township Schools

  • Food is Health: Prenatal - Three

    • Powers Health, Valparaiso Family YMCA

  • Expanding Early Childhood Support

    • Duneland School Corporation, Kidworks

  • Building Strong Foundations - Prenatal Memberships

    • Portage Township YMCA, Northshore Health Centers

  • Intensive Developmental Milestone Training Opportunities for Early Learning Center Teachers and Caregivers.

    • Duneland Family YMCA, Jacob’s Ladder Pediatric Rehabilitation

  • Empowering Mothers: Awareness, Recovery, and Support Campaign

    • Three20 Recovery, Gabriel’s Horn, Homes of Compassion (Bringing Children Hope)

  • Perinatal Mental Health: An Integrated Care Approach for Health Professionals

    • Porter-Starke Services, Powers Health

  • Discovery Forest

    • Valpo Parks, Kidworks

  • Early Childhood Environmental Education is a Powerful Tool to Help Children Grow, Learn and Develop

    • Dunes Learning Center, Duneland Family YMCA