National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Community Treatment and Services Center Grants (Category III)

The summary for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Community Treatment and Services Center Grants (Category III) 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 Center for Mental Health Services, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Community Treatment and Services Center Grants (Category III): THIS REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN MODIFIED A NUMBER OF TIMES. 1) THE DUE DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO MAY 17, 2005 2) THE AMOUNT OF THE GRANT PROGRAM IS NOW $7,600,000. 3) THERE MAY BE AS MANY AS 19 GRANT RECIPIENTS. 4) THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT FROM APRIL 29, 2005, IS A CORRECTION: "Please note that the page limitation for the Project Narrative should be 30 pages and the word limitation for electronic submission of applications should be 15,450 words. The RFA has been corrected accordingly as of April 29, 2005." ************** SAMHSAs National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) is designed to improve treatment and services for all children and adolescents in the United States who have experienced traumatic events. The initiative addresses child trauma issues by creating a national network of grantees that work collaboratively to develop and promote effective community practices for children and adolescents exposed to a wide array of traumatic events. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network is composed of three types of centers: 1. The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) works with SAMHSA to develop and maintain the Network structure, provide technical assistance to grantees within the Network, oversee resource development and dissemination, and coordinate national education and training efforts; 2. The Treatment and Services Adaptation (TSA) Centers provide national expertise on specific types of traumatic events, population groups, and service systems and support the specialized adaptation of effective treatment and service approaches for communities across the country; and 3. The Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Centers implement and evaluate effective treatment and services in community settings and youth serving service systems and collaborate with other Network Centers on clinical issues, service approaches, policy, financing, and training issues. Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Centers are funded under this announcement. These community-focused grants promote the local use of best practices for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. New grants will be provided to community organizations or programs that primarily provide or support treatment and services in their community, or specialty child service settings, for children, adolescents, and their families who have experienced trauma. The overall goals of CTS Centers are to identify best practices to address child trauma needs in their communities, work with TSA Centers to adapt empirically-based treatment and service approaches to meet needs within their communities, and work with other community agencies to transform service delivery approaches so that best practices take root within local community service systems. Grantees are expected to collaborate intensively within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network for these purposes and for developing child traumatic stress-related products and services for nationwide consumption and benefit.