Deadline: 05-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), and Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPSA) is seeking applications for Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grant Program – National Capacity Building Center to Expand Services for Children, Youth, and Abused Parents Impacted by Domestic Violence (ESCYAP).
The emphasis of the grantee must be on gathering existing national, state, and local technical assistance, resources, promising practices, guidelines, national standards, and other useful information. Along with supporting funded SSAPC grantees, the ESCYAP grantee must also provide peer support to other state domestic violence coalitions, tribes, domestic violence, community-based, and tribal programs working as sub-grantees of SSAPC-funded grantees or wishing to seek direct technical assistance for improving available services for, and responses to, children and youth exposed to domestic violence.
Through this program, the grantee shall, as follows:
- Facilitate access to resources for SSAPC grantees and interested domestic violence programs and serve as a national clearinghouse/information hub. The grantee shall facilitate peer-to-peer technical support among the SSAPC grantees and with other state domestic violence coalitions and domestic violence service providers who have developed similar projects or have relevant expertise.
- Focus on distilling existing knowledge into accessible, digestible resources that can be easily used by service providers and incorporated into their practices. The grantee should not duplicate the work of other national resource centers or other organizations doing related work. The grantee may create additional technical assistance and resources, but only after determining that such resources are not already in existence.
- Partner with issue-area experts to provide technical assistance; develop products; or assist in gathering, collating and disseminating information about available resources regarding services for and responses to children and youth exposed to domestic violence.
- Facilitate access for SSAPC grantees and domestic violence service providers to nationwide systems such as child support enforcement, child welfare, federal housing programs, and other systems that impact children exposed to domestic violence and work toward improving the response of those systems to children exposed to domestic violence.
- Work toward developing standards or guidelines for domestic violence programs to promote developmentally appropriate and responsive services for children and youth exposed to domestic violence. By working closely with SSAPC grantees to understand lessons learned during implementation and evaluating outcomes of these projects, the grantee will begin the process of creating this guidance. To inform this guidance, the grantee must gather a diverse working group from across the domestic violence field and related fields including child and youth-serving organizations.
- Plan conferences, topical meetings, or major project meetings in conjunction with FYSB, to allow participation of FYSB staff. The grantee shall provide a detailed plan for project implementation, a work plan, trainings/events schedule, evaluation schedule, and a plan for reporting on the outcomes of the project. The grantee must plan travel expenses for at least one representative from the grantee organization to participate in two Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN, which is a FYSB network of resource and capacity building centers and grantees) meetings each project period and at least one FYSB-sponsored meeting each project period. The grantee must plan to facilitate at least two FYSB-sponsored webinars during each budget period.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $1,700,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,700,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $500,000 Per Budget Period
- Average Projected Award Amount: $1,700,000 Per Budget Period
- Expected Number of Awards: 1
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/30/2021
- Length of Project Period: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
- To be eligible to receive this discretionary grant, an entity shall be a private, non-profit organization (including a faith-based, charitable, community-based, culturally specific, or voluntary association); a tribal organization; a state, tribal, or local government; a public, private, state-controlled institution of higher education; a for-profit organization other than small businesses; or a small business.
- Entities shall focus primarily on domestic violence and have a documented history of successful work addressing domestic violence or children exposed to domestic violence. Entities must have the capacity to serve as a national resource provider. All applicants must have documented experience providing or demonstrated capacity to provide national-scope training and technical assistance to state and tribal domestic violence coalitions and local domestic violence service providers.
- Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, the Department will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=329057