Child abuse
- Provide a 1-2 sentence overview of your proposed project.
The National Child Abuse Coalition was formed by professional organizations and a national voluntary group, which represents a commitment to coordinate supporting efforts towards abused and neglected children. The National Child Abuse Coalition has turned into a resource for advocacy, a focus point for better leadership, and a plan on legislative problems based on child maltreatment.
- Describe the mission of the funding agency from which you will seek funding.
The National Child Abuse Coalition aims to; stop child abuse, neglect, and maltreatment in time before families focus on the child welfare system and the child protective services (CPS) system and also protect and support children from families that concentrate on CPS.
To offer education to the Congress and Administration members on the science of treatment and prevention programs that can help in; strengthening families, preventing child abuse and neglect, and also supporting children and families that get the attention of the Child Welfare System.
- Briefly describe the types of programs they typically fund.
- The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ( CAPTA)
The fund activities that are funded by CAPTA program support activities such as; research projects and demonstrations on the causes, assessment, prevention, identification, and treatment of the child’s abuse and neglect. Also, the development and the implementation of training programs which are evidence-based, grantees, and community technical assistance trough the national resource center and also the Child Welfare Information Gateway. In CAPTA, grants are provided to both state and local agencies, organizations, and hospital programs.
- Title IV-B of the social security Act.
Title IV-B is an act that addresses the provision of Child Welfare Services, which are used for preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect. This program fulfills this by funding programs and services that; prevent the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children. Promote and protect all children’s welfare.
- Title IV-E of the social security act
Title IV-E just like IV-B addresses a significant part of child welfare. Its main focus is to provide stable and safe out-of-home care to children in out-of-home facilities following child maltreatment till they an achieve permanency by being returned home safely, placed in safe adoptive families, or other safe arrangements.
- Family First Prevention Service Act
This act was passed by the congress in February 2018, and it altered the Title IV-E program history by giving the Title IV-E dollars the mandate to support certain evidence-based services to take part in strengthening families and preventing children from being separated from their parents.
- Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program(MIECHV)
This program was authorized in 2008 and reauthorized by the Affordable Care Act, and it supported the expansion of evidence-based programs for home visiting young families that are vulnerable.
- Provide an overview of the criteria of the funding announcement.
HHS-2019-AFC-ACYF-CZ-1558
The purpose of this FOA is to establish a National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, by cooperative agreement, to make it the primary provider of technical assistance and training to create the capacity of Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention tribal and migrant grantees, state lead agencies, and partners to practice successful plans meant to strengthen families and to prevent child maltreatment. The first-year award amount goes up to $1,400,000, together with a project period of up to 60 months with a five 12 months budget period. Applicants applying electronically use www.Grants.gov link and are only required to upload two electronic files which exclude Standard Forms and OMB-approved forms. The due date for application submission is 06/18/2019. The deadline time for submitting an electronic application is 11:59 p.m., ET, on the due date, as indicated by a time-stamped and dated email from www.Grants.gov. Applications submitted after 12:00 a.m on a day after the due date is disqualified from funding under the announcement and also from the competitive review. The deadline for paper application submission is at 4:30 p.m ., ET, on the due date provided. Paper applications received past 4:30 of the due date provided are disqualified from funding under the announcement. For paper applications, the accepted language is English; the font required is 12 of Times New Roman. The page limitation is 75 pages. Double-sided pages are counted as two.
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References
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