Deadline: 18 May 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is seeking applications for its “Refugee Technical Assistance Program” to award up to four cooperative agreements to provide innovative technical assistance (TA) to ORR-funded refugee service providers, State Refugee Coordinators, State Refugee Health Coordinators, and others working with refugees to fill a gap where no other such TA exists.
The overall goal of the Refugee TA Program is to equip refugee service providers and other professionals working with refugees the specialized TA and training needed to appropriately address, through a strengths-based approach, any barriers that refugees may encounter while trying to access community-based services, education, employment, and specialized care.
Focus Areas
- early economic self-sufficiency through employment, including a focus on skilled and highly skilled individuals;
- trauma-informed integrated refugee healthcare;
- refugee child and family wellbeing, including youth mentoring;
- Evaluation, focusing on the collection, management, analysis, and communication of data.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,200,000
- Award Ceiling: $350,000
- Award Floor: $250,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.