OpportunityTitle: Improving Service Delivery to Youth in the Child Welfare System
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: 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.
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement(FOA) is to develop and evaluate programs that promote the safety and well-being of children and families and that allow youth, where safe and appropriate, to return to families from which they have been removed, by building relationship skills to mitigate risk and to promote protective and resiliency factors in youth who have experienced trauma or abuse. Projects will target youth in the child welfare system, or those at risk of entering the child welfare system, including LGBTQ, pregnant and parenting teens, and other youth with significant risk factors.1. Due to administrative difficulties, a number of pages that completed the language appearingunder Section I. Funding Opportunity Description, were inadvertantly omitted. This Modification incorporates the omitted pages completingthe description found under Section I. Funding Opportunity Description.2. The Application Due Date has been extended allowing applicants additional time for filing applications for this FOA from July 7 to July 19, 2011.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: ACF Applications Help Desk
GrantorContactText: ACF Applications Help Desk &lt;br/&gt;app_support@acf.hhs.gov &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: See link to full announcement for details. IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications submitted electronically via Grants.gov must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m., eastern time, on the due date referenced above.