Deadline: 06-Oct-2025
The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, has announced a new funding opportunity to establish and support four Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers that will enhance the nation’s response to child abuse and neglect.
Funded under the Victims of Child Abuse Act, this initiative seeks to deliver coordinated training, technical assistance, and resource development to multidisciplinary teams, local children’s advocacy centers, and state chapter organizations across the country.
Each of the four Regional CACs will serve one of the U.S. Census regions—Northeast, South, Midwest, and West—ensuring that communities nationwide gain access to high-quality, specialized support. These centers will guide communities in building and strengthening facility-based, child-focused programs that improve investigative and prosecutorial responses while ensuring victims and their families receive the care and services they need.
The program’s core goals are to improve communities’ ability to develop and sustain multidisciplinary responses to child abuse and neglect, and to enhance the capacity of CACs to better serve child victims. This will include creating curricula, publications, and resources for practitioners; training physicians and behavioral health professionals in the multidisciplinary approach; and strengthening state chapter organizations so they can independently provide technical assistance to local CACs.
With a total of $4.5 million in funding available, four awards of up to $1.125 million each will be granted for a 12-month period starting October 1, 2025. Eligible applicants are local public and private nonprofit children’s advocacy center agencies and organizations that have at least five years of experience delivering regional or national training and technical assistance on the judicial handling and investigative response to child abuse and neglect cases.
This initiative is designed to build a stronger, more coordinated national network of child advocacy centers, ensuring that vulnerable children receive the protection, support, and justice they deserve.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.