The Paso del Norte Health Foundation seeks letters of intent (LOI) from eligible organizations to further the Behavioral Health Consortia goals to improve coordination across behavioral health systems; identify and address system gaps; and support system-level improvements.

What We Will Fund

The Health Foundation does not fund illness treatment services. The Health Foundation works closely with the Paso del Norte Center at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute to cultivate collaboration as a neutral convener for regional community collaboratives and related work groups or task forces. Work to improve the Paso del Norte region’s mental health and substance use systems will strive to achieve an “Ideal Behavioral Health System.”

An inclusive system includes criminal justice, law enforcement, veterans’ services, juvenile justice, child welfare, schools, homeless providers, and health systems, organized within available resources at the policy, program, procedure, and practice levels. The “Ideal Behavioral Health System.” is also customer-driven and focused on meeting or exceeding the service and support needs of individuals and families; recovery and resiliency-oriented; integrated, trauma-informed, culturally competent, and organized from a population health perspective; set up to meet the needs of individuals and families with complex, co-occurring conditions of all types. LOIs submitted to the Health Foundation will be in complement with priority goals and strategies identified by the following regional Consortia and related workgroups or task force efforts:

El Paso County: The El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium (Consortium) works to improve mental health and substance use systems in the greater El Paso and Hudspeth County area of the Paso del Norte region. The Health Foundation, the PdN Center at the Meadows Institute, and critical community leaders lead in maintaining an effective collaboration for the system of care. Several comprehensive system assessments inform the Consortium’s priority goals; the most recent system assessment can be found at https://healthypasodelnorte.org/el-paso-behavioral-health-consortium/.

Southern New Mexico: In Doña Ana County, the Local Behavioral Health Collaborative – 3 (LC3), a consortium focused on mental health and substance use system improvements, is working with Doña Ana County leaders to address system gaps. In Otero County, the Otero County Community Health Council and the Local Behavioral Health Collaborative – 12 also work with community stakeholders to improve the Otero care system. Health Foundation and PdN Center at Meadows Institute staff participate in these groups and help cultivate collaboration for system improvement efforts. For more information on the Doña Ana County mental health and substance use system, visit https://healthypasodelnorte.org/lc3-behavioral-health-collaborative/ .

For information on grant guidelines, please see the Grantmaking Guidelines on the Grantseekers page on the Paso del Norte Health Foundation website www.pdnhf.org.

Key Dates

· Letters of intent are due via email to programs1@pdnhf.org by April 7, 2026.

· Invitations for full proposals will be announced by May 12, 2026.

· Invited applicants may be required to meet with the Program Officer before submitting a full proposal. Full proposals are due by June 25, 2026.

· The projected funding cycle start date is November 1, 2026, but other dates may be proposed.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible applicants include nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, churches, and government units located in the Paso del Norte region. See the Paso del Norte Health Foundation website: www.pdnhf.org for more information about grant guidelines.

Service Region

The Health Foundation operates in a unique binational environment, which stretches across two countries and three states. This region is home to 2.4 million people living in El Paso and Hudspeth Counties in far west Texas; Doña Ana, Luna, and Otero Counties in southern New Mexico; and the municipality of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.