Deadline: 27 June 2016
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications to support one national capacity building center focused on delivering comprehensive training and technical assistance to enhance safe, supportive and sustainable housing for survivors of domestic violence.
Purpose
- To strengthen coordination between domestic violence, housing, and homeless service providers.
- It will develop resources for integrating responses to the complex and diverse needs of domestic violence survivors throughout the crisis-response system, including assessment, safety planning, voluntary and flexible supportive services, and access to emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and permanent housing.
- The Center will also provide training at the local state, and national level regarding victim privacy and confidentiality especially as it relates to data collection.
- It will offer strategies for including domestic violence service providers as full partners in local Continuum of Care (CoC) planning and implementation efforts aimed at delivering client-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally relevant services tailored to the individual needs of survivors of domestic violence and their children.
- The Center will document best practices and lessons learned from the domestic violence, homelessness, and housing fields related to rapid rehousing and housing first projects for domestic violence survivors; coordinated assessment; transitional housing; and progressive engagement/supportive services.
- The Center will identify promising practices that promote the physical and emotional well-being, resilience, and long term safety, security and housing stability of families impacted by domestic violence.
Funding Information: The estimated total program funding is $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their applications electronically via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
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