Safety Through Care Grant

Safety Through Care is a City of Philadelphia Office of Public Safety grant administered by the Office of Public Safety's Division of Community Grants. Formerly known as the Overdose Prevention & Community Healing fund, Safety Through Care is offered alongside the City's Anti-Violence Community Partnership Grants through a common Office of Public Safety application. Philadelphia's Office of Public Safety describes its public safety strategy through a Prevention, Intervention, and Enforcement approach, with OPS focused on prevention and intervention and community-based organizations contributing trusted relationships, local knowledge, and community-rooted expertise. Safety Through Care supports organizations responding to Philadelphia communities affected by the overdose crisis. The broader OPS grant program supports community-based prevention and intervention programming intended to reduce and sustain reductions in violence, problematic drug use, and overdose through proven interventions, diversion activities, and community-based efforts. OPS states that its grantees use trauma-informed approaches, build community resiliency, promote self-development and care, and strengthen communities affected by substance misuse and other public safety challenges. Examples of activities identified across OPS programming include outreach events, resource fairs, job training and career development, educational events and workshops, community engagement, and neighborhood and community beautification. Safety Through Care provides awards of $150,000. The source states that ten organizations addressing substance misuse will be funded. These organizations will receive specialized technical assistance and become tertiary distributors of Narcan during the grant period. Safety Through Care programming is to take place from January through December 2027 and must occur during at least nine months of that twelve-month period. No cost-share or matching requirement is stated in the supplied material. The source does not provide a detailed Safety Through Care budget or list of allowable and prohibited expenditures, so no additional spending restrictions can be established from the supplied information. For Safety Through Care specifically, applicants must be designated 501(c)(3) charitable organizations. They must respond to Philadelphia communities affected by the overdose crisis and have experience managing cumulative funding of at least $100,000. Programming must take place in Philadelphia, must serve Philadelphia residents, and must occur during at least nine months of the January through December 2027 grant period. Although the common OPS announcement identifies individuals, nonprofits, fiscally sponsored organizations, LLCs, S-Corps, and B-Corps among applicants for the overall group of OPS grants, the Safety Through Care section imposes the more specific requirement that funded organizations be designated 501(c)(3) charitable organizations. Applications must be submitted through the Submittable platform, which requires creation of a free Submittable account. The common application opened August 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM and the official application deadline is September 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET. OPS communications, including interview invitations and award notifications, will be delivered through Submittable, and applicants are expected to monitor and respond to Submittable messages. Virtual information sessions are offered during September 2026, but participation is not identified as a required application step. Applicants may contact AntiViolenceGrants@phila.gov for additional grant information. Safety Through Care applicants may be invited to interview. The source states that additional information, including a full programming calendar and budget narrative, may be requested at that stage. Final selection is based on the combined application and interview score, and all applicants will receive written notification of the funding decision. Organizations selected for funding may also be required to provide additional information or documentation. No specific award-notification date is provided. The Safety Through Care grant period runs January 1 through December 31, 2027. The supplied material does not explicitly establish an annual or other recurring application schedule, so no future cycle is treated as confirmed.

Demonstrate experience responding to Philadelphia communities affected by the overdose crisis and managing at least $100,000 in cumulative funding; show that programming will take place in Philadelphia, serve Philadelphia residents, and operate for at least nine months; prepare carefully for the interview because final selection is based on the combined application and interview score.