Deadline: 13-Mar-23
The Administration for Children and Families is accepting applications for Best Practices to Strengthen Family Support in Child Maltreatment Reporting and Prevention.
This NOFO will support the development and national dissemination of best practices to strengthen the capacity of child abuse hotlines to distinguish between poverty and willful neglect. More than 60 percent of maltreatment determinations are for neglect without abuse (Children’s Bureau, 2021).
The goal of this NOFO is to support the development and national dissemination of best practices to strengthen the capacity of child abuse hotline staff to distinguish between poverty and willful neglect.
Objectives
To achieve this goal, the project funded under this opportunity will focus on achieving the following project objectives:
- Develop and disseminate best practices for distinguishing between poverty and willful neglect in a child abuse hotline environment.
- Reduce unnecessary reporting to child welfare systems by establishing innovative solutions to link individuals who reach out with a poverty-related concern with relevant local resources and financial supports, with a particular focus on underserved populations as defined by Executive Order 13985.
- Develop and widely disseminate best practices, protocols, and procedures for training and supporting hotline staff to navigate complex and wide-reaching issues such as understanding the distinction between poverty and willful neglect and how and when to report child abuse from a trauma-informed and equitable lens.
- Develop a national messaging campaign that encourages mandated reporters to become a source of support to families in their communities by identifying and acknowledging the impact of racial inequities.
- Evaluate funded efforts to determine the extent to which the strategies and activities have contributed to meeting the goal of this NOFO.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $2,000,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 1
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $1,000,000 Per Budget Period
- Average Projected Award Amount: $2,000,000 Per Budget Period
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Independent school districts
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Special district governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.