Recovery Movement Consulting Helps Secure $40,000 UHIP Grant for Refugee Women

Grant Writing Services That Strengthen Community Health, Equity, and Belonging

Recovery Movement Consulting (RMC) is proud to announce that we supported Women of the World (WoW) in securing a $40,000 Utah Health Improvement Plan (UHIP) grant to sustain and strengthen its Self-Sufficiency Program serving low-income, forcibly displaced women in Utah.

This award directly supports WoW’s ongoing work to build connectedness, stability, and long-term independence for refugee, asylum-seeking, and immigrant women—many of whom are mothers living below 200% of the federal poverty line and navigating trauma, language barriers, and social isolation.

Why This UHIP Grant Matters

National and local data consistently show that low-income and immigrant communities face disproportionate barriers to healthcare access, social connection, and economic stability. In Salt Lake County, recent reductions in federal and state refugee funding have significantly limited access to long-term case management, English learning, and employment services.

Rather than launching a new initiative, this UHIP investment helps protect services that are already working.

The funding will support a portion of two essential full-time Self-Sufficiency Program staff whose work directly aligns with UHIP’s:

• Building Connectedness Priority

• Low-Income Focus Area

• Strategy 2: Increase Community Engagement

These multilingual, culturally competent staff members provide:

• Trauma-informed case management for housing, food security, healthcare, childcare, and legal referrals

• English Language Learning (ELL) support to improve communication with employers, schools, and healthcare providers

• Connection-building activities such as support groups, mentoring, conversation circles, and leadership workshops

• One-on-one advocacy and systems navigation

• Daycare and transportation support to remove participation barriers

Through this work, WoW will directly serve approximately 400 women annually, with an estimated 800 additional family members benefiting indirectly through improved stability, mental wellbeing, and social connection.

Aligning Grant Strategy With Public Health Priorities

A key strength of this proposal—and a core focus of RMC’s grant writing services—is tight alignment with funder priorities.

This project demonstrates strong alignment with UHIP goals by:

• Reducing isolation and improving mental wellbeing through culturally responsive, peer-centered programming

• Increasing access to preventive healthcare through warm handoffs to clinics, Medicaid, and mental health providers

• Strengthening social connectedness via group learning, mentorship, and community-based engagement

• Leveraging existing partnerships with the Salt Lake County Health Department, Utah Refugee Center, adult education providers, and local colleges

By stabilizing trusted staff positions rather than expanding programming beyond capacity, this grant ensures continuity, quality, and measurable impact.

RMC’s Role: Strategic, Values-Aligned Grant Writing

Recovery Movement Consulting partnered with Women of the World to:

• Translate complex, trauma-informed programming into clear public-health language

• Align outcomes with UHIP’s evaluation framework and workgroup priorities

• Frame sustainability and systems gaps caused by federal funding reductions

• Develop a budget narrative that balanced realism, compliance, and impact

• Position WoW as a proven, trusted community anchor—not a pilot project

This award reflects RMC’s approach to nonprofit grant writing services: grounded in lived experience, data-informed, equity-centered, and deeply aligned with funder intent.

Congratulations to Women of the World

We congratulate the WoW team on this important award and are honored to support an organization that continues to show what community-rooted, culturally competent systems of care can achieve—even amid funding uncertainty.

As public funding becomes less predictable, strategic grant writing and diversified funding approaches are no longer optional—they are essential to sustaining impact.

Need Grant Writing Support?

Recovery Movement Consulting provides grant writing and reporting services to recovery-focused, equity-driven, and community-based nonprofits nationwide.

If your organization needs support with:

• Federal, state, or local grant applications

• Health equity or public health funding

• Workforce development or self-sufficiency programs

• Sustainability planning amid funding cuts

We’re here to help. Recovery Movement Consulting: Serving nonprofits with passion, purpose, and lived experience.