Deadline: 30-Jul-2025
The Administration for Community Living has launched the call for proposals for the Tribal Adult Protective Services Demonstration Grants to enhance and improve the provision of adult protective services by Tribal governments and/or tribal organizations.
The Tribal Adult Protective Services Demonstration will assist tribes to:
- Identify the prevalence of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elders in their communities
- Identify the gaps in prevention of and response to, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
- Implement activities to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, and exploitation; and
- Facilitate the development of multidisciplinary elder justice activities to prevent, respond to, or address abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Goals and Objectives
- Anticipated goals and objectives consistent with the purpose of the statute include but are not limited to:
- Expanding and improving services to tribal elders who experience all cultural facets of abuse, neglect, and exploitation and facilitate the development of multidisciplinary elder justice activities to prevent, respond to or address abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Address the occurrence of elder abuse in tribal communities to determine the lack of culturally appropriate information and community educational materials on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Gather and distribute information on strengthening existing or new tribal APS codes which will address and detect elder maltreatment within Indian Country.
- Collaboration with other entities (state and/or tribal organizations) for the purpose of specifying trends, challenges and barriers and enhancing responses to elder abuse victims or cases.
- Develop training modules to detect or prevent the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elders within Indian Country.
- Engage and collaborate with at least one (1) ACL national resource center and/or aging network organization to gather information and resources focusing on the field of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation within Indian Country.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 750,000
- Award Ceiling: $200,000
- Award Floor: $150,000
Duration
- 24-month project period with two 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Current AoA Title VI grantees are eligible. Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
- No entities are eligible for this award, only individuals are eligible to apply.
- If you are a non-USA citizen, you must provide documentation that you are eligible to receive research funding directly from an agency of the United States government.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.