OpportunityTitle: Services for Survivors of Torture Program: Assistance to Torture Survivors Through Direct Services
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility is open to all types of domestic applicants other than individuals.    Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply.  Foreign entities are not eligible under this announcement.
Description: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is interested in awarding up to 25 grants for direct services to persons who have been tortured. Allowable activities include physical, psychological, social and legal services which are described under Section I. Funding Opportunity Description/Services for Torture Survivors of this announcement. Applicants may propose all or a combination of these services. If the applicant does not propose to provide all of the allowable services directly, the application should describe how they will ensure that clients can access the other services if needed. Partnerships may be formed with other community service providers in order to provide torture survivors with access to the full complement of allowable services. Training activities may also be conducted for community service providers who have access to or work with torture survivors. Applicants are encouraged to design projects that incorporate collaboration with health care, mental health, social service and legal aid organizations as well as refugee and immigrant service providers in the community to increase their capacity for service provision to torture survivors. A modification to this announcement has been published. The modification affects Section II. Award Information in the original, published announcement.
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.