Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
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Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) is committed to facilitating healing and recovery and promoting the social and emotional well being of children who have experienced maltreatment, exposure to violence and/ or trauma. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund a National Child Welfare Institute that will build the capacity of the child welfare workforce to effectively respond to the complex needs of the children and families in order to foster social and emotional well-being and promote healthy and positive functioning. This project will advance Federal priorities while supporting systems and workforce development initiatives at the State and National Levels to build the competencies and skills of the child welfare workforce. This targeted 5-year cooperative agreement will create a national center of excellence to address workforce development and leadership capacity building in service of systems change in child welfare agencies. The child welfare field faces an ongoing workforce crisis requiring creative and comprehensive organizational interventions as well as professional development opportunities for professionals serving at all levels in child welfare agencies. This initiative will build on research and evaluation findings from the last ten years of federal child welfare training funding to address the current pressing needs in workforce development of an integrated approach to improve safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children. This program will focus on building the leadership and change management skills in professionals and improving the systems that recruit, train, supervise, manage and retain them. The following key components will be included: BSW and MSW Traineeships Child Welfare Scholars Programs Organizational Intervention Component demonstrating a clear linkage between School of Social Work and public child welfare Leadership, trauma-informed and evidence based practice curriculum provided to pre-service and inservice child welfare staff Leadership Academies Leadership Academy for Deans and Directors Leadership Academy for State Child Welfare Agency Directors Leadership Academy for Middle Managers Leadership Academy for Supervisors Technical Assistance on Best Practices in Child Welfare Workforce Recruitment, Selection, Retention, and Organizational Effectiveness to States, Voluntary Agencies and Tribes Development of Workforce Development Framework and Identification of Core Competencies of Child Welfare Staff Knowledge Assessment, Knowledge Building and Knowledge Management of Best Practices in Child Welfare Workforce Development National Expertise in Dissemination Strategies of these Best Practices Rigorous Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance Effort
Federal Grant Title: | Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute |
Federal Agency Name: | Administration for Children and Families ACYF CB |
Grant Categories: | Income Security and Social Services |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2013-ACF-ACYF-CT-0596 |
Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
CFDA Numbers: | 93.648 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Child Welfare Research Training or Demonstration |
Current Application Deadline: | Jul 05, 2013 |
Original Application Deadline: | Jul 05, 2013 |
Posted Date: | May 06, 2013 |
Creation Date: | May 06, 2013 |
Archive Date: | Aug 05, 2013 |
Total Program Funding: | $4,100,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $4,100,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $2,000,000 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- Under the funding legislation, eligible applicants are public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Consortia of the eligible institutions of higher education described above are encouraged to apply, and Collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts are encouraged, but applications must identify a primary applicant responsible for administering the grant. The primary applicant must be one of the entities listed under "Eligible Applicants," above. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
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