Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery

The summary for the Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Administration for Children and Families, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit proposals for projects that will: 1. Support public child welfare systems in their efforts to provide effective mental and behavioral health services for children and families and to further develop trauma-informed systems that promote safety, permanency, and well-being; 2. Assist child welfare systems to target and divert existing resources to the implementation and/or expansion of effective clinical, trauma-focused treatments; 3. Support the implementation of trauma-focused treatment models with high fidelity in child welfare systems; 4. Identify factors and strategies associated with successful installation and implementation of trauma treatments in child welfare systems; 5. Improve the social and emotional well-being of targeted children in child welfare systems who experience trauma and are exhibiting trauma symptoms; 6. Evaluate the impact of trauma treatment on safety, permanency, well-being and adoption outcomesand 7. Complement ongoing Federal efforts to improve the standard of care for children who have experienced trauma, including the work of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. Projects funded under this FOA will: 1. Replicate and scale up trauma-focused treatments to reduce traumatic stress reactions for one or more targeted groups of children in contact with the child welfare systems; 2. Take the steps necessary for the child welfare system to become more trauma-informed and receptive to the introduction or expansion of trauma-focused treatments; and 3. Put into place those supports necessary to successfully implement and sustain the treatment models. Grant funds may be used for the process of service transformation efforts to improve mental and behavioral health services and further develop trauma-informed child welfare systems. Activities may include, but are not limited to training, installation, implementation, and evaluation. Successful applicants will design a plan to sustain service transformations within their child welfare service delivery systems. MODIFICATION In the Eligibility section, the following was added: · State governments · County governments · City or township governments · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education
Federal Grant Title: Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery
Federal Agency Name: Administration for Children and Families
Grant Categories: Income Security and Social Services
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2011-ACF-ACYF-CO-0169
Type of Funding: Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers: 93.652
CFDA Descriptions: Adoption Opportunities
Current Application Deadline: Jul 25, 2011
Original Application Deadline: Jul 25, 2011
Posted Date: Jun 03, 2011
Creation Date: Jun 10, 2011
Archive Date: No date given
Total Program Funding: $3,200,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $640,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $0
Expected Number of Awards: 5
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) - Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) - Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility
Eligible applicants are: State, Tribal or county public child welfare agencies; and Private child welfare agencies under contract with the public child welfare agency Collaborative efforts are strongly encouraged, but applicants must identify a primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement. If the primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement is not a public child welfare agency, the applicant must document a strong partnership with the public child welfare agency(ies) with responsibility for administering the child welfare program(s) in the targeted geographical area(s) and courts having jurisdiction over the targeted child welfare population. Applicants are required to partner with key agencies, e.g., a university, medical center, mental health agency, and/or community-based provider with nationally demonstrated expertise in child traumatic stress interventions and experience with the population(s) that the applicant proposes to serve with their proposed project. Applicants must either demonstrate in their proposals that efforts to integrate trauma-informed and trauma-focused practices into their provision of child welfare services have already been undertaken prior to reviewing and responding to this funding opportunity announcement or demonstrate that there is considerable community interest and commitment to developing these practices. Applicants must also demonstrate that they have the capacity within their child welfare systems, or in partnership with mental health agencies, to offer accessible and individualized mental health services to children in the child welfare system. Faith-based and community organizations that meet eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
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