OpportunityTitle: Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: 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.
Description: 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&apos;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; and3. 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.MODIFICATIONIn the Eligibility section, the following was added: &#183; State governments &#183; County governments &#183; City or township governments &#183; Public and State controlled institutions ofhigher education &#183; Native American tribal governments (Federallyrecognized) &#183; Native American tribal organizations (other thanFederally recognized tribal governments) &#183; Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with theIRS, other than institutions of higher education &#183; Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with theIRS, other than institutions of higher education &#183; Private institutions of higher education
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.