Deadline: 3-May-22
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is inviting applications for Elder Justice Innovation Grants (EJIG) – Enhancing APS Approaches to Cases Involving Opioids and Substance Use Disorders 2022 to support the development and advancement of new and emerging issues related to elder justice.
The Elder Justice Innovation Grants program is intended to support foundational work to create credible innovations, with benchmarks for adult maltreatment prevention, and for program development and evaluation. The Elder Justice Innovation Grants program supports the development and advancement of knowledge and approaches in new and emerging issues related to elder justice.
For this opportunity, ACL invites applications that seek to achieve:
- Improvements in the capacity of APS to serve and assist clients impacted by the opioid crisis and other forms of substance abuse, and;
- Improvements in the state's ability to document and report to the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS) case, client, and perpetrator data for opioid and substance abuse-related APS cases.
At the end of these grants, ACL anticipates the identification of effective strategies and solutions that maximize the impact of direct home-and community-based social, health, and mental/behavioral health services for APS clients impacted by the opioid epidemic and other substance abuse, and that can be further replicated and tested in other communities and states. Applicants should detail how they plan to address/explain the following:
- Challenges faced by the current APS system in handling/managing opioid and other substance abuse-related cases;
- Gaps in home-and community-based social, health, and mental/behavioral health services which hinder APS from securing adequate services for clients affected by opioid and other substance abuse;
- Identification and targeting of the project to the most affected communities in their state;
- Solutions that fill identified needs and gaps;
- The documentation and data collection tools to capture the characteristics of the individuals served and cases worked under this project and reporting to NAMRS; and
- The method/s that will be employed to successfully measure whether the project has achieved the overall goal and proposed outcome(s) and for this funding opportunity, and who will be responsible for carrying out the evaluation activities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $6,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $300,000 Per Budget Period
- Length of Project Period: 24-month project period with two 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- Domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher education.
- Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
- Individuals are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337805