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Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers Program (United States)

Deadline: 12-Mar-2025

The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention is accepting applications for the Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers program.

This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting and strengthening four regional children’s advocacy centers (CACs) that will deliver coordinated training and technical assistance within and across the regions to CACs, members of multidisciplinary teams, programs, and organizations to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect and the provision of children’s advocacy center services to child victims and their families.

Goals and Objectives 
  • The purpose of this NOFO is to fund four regional children’s advocacy centers—one in each of the four U.S. Census regions—that will provide coordinated delivery of a full complement of training, technical assistance, resource development, and information to develop and strengthen multidisciplinary team investigations and responses to child abuse and neglect.
    • Goal 1: Build and improve the capacity of communities to develop, maintain, and enhance their comprehensive, multidisciplinary response to the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect.
      • Objective 1: Assist communities in developing child-focused, community-oriented, facility-based programs to improve the resources available to child victims and families.
      • Objective 2: Ensure CACs, child abuse multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), and state chapters have access to high-quality specialized training and technical assistance, practice tools, resources, publications, communities of practice, and evidence-based treatment and practices for child abuse and neglect victims.
      • Objective 3: Deliver systematic, coordinated, customized TTA in partnership with the other regions.
    • Goal 2: Assist CACs and/or multidisciplinary teams to more effectively meet the needs of child victims.
      • Objective 1: Enhance coordination among community agencies and professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases.
      • Objective 2: Develop and/or expand TTA curricula, publications, and resources to support optimal practice implementation and to address new, emerging, and innovative areas identified as needed in the field.
      • Objective 3: Train physicians and other healthcare and mental healthcare professionals in the multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect.
      • Objective 4: Develop and strengthen capacity of state chapter organizations to deliver TTA to local CACs to meet the needs within the state on their own.

Funding Information

  • Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $5,000,000
  • Anticipated Number of Awards: 4
  • Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $1,250,000
  • Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
  • Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 12 months
Deliverables
  • The following lists the required deliverables for each RCAC, such as expected products, services, or activities that should be developed/delivered as a result of this program:
    • Develop a joint plan to implement a systematic, coordinated TTA approach for CACs,
    • MDTs, and state chapter organizations. The joint plan shall involve all four RCACs and the Tribal CAC TTA provider. The plan will be submitted to OJJDP for review and
    • approval within 6 months of award.
    • Conduct annual statewide TTA assessments in partnership with each state chapter within the region to develop a statewide TTA plan to address the needs of each state’s local CACs and MDTs. These assessments will include state chapter capacity assessment and identification of any state chapter TTA needs.
    • Develop and implement a coordinated TTA delivery plan annually for the region that is informed by the needs/priorities identified through the statewide TTA assessments and coordinated with other RCACs.
    • Provide high-quality, customized technical assistance based upon needs identified in the above assessments and delivered in a systematic, coordinated process adopted across the RCACs.
    • Deliver high-quality training opportunities for CACs, MDTs, and state chapters, including delivery of train-the-trainer approaches to increase impact, capacity, and reach based upon the above assessments.
    • Develop and deliver resources, publications, and curricula to support the specific emerging needs of CACs and state chapters, including train-the-trainer materials based upon collaborative strategic alignment with VOCAA national partners.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Eligible applicants are limited to local public and private nonprofit children’s advocacy center agencies and organizations that can demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience providing regional or national training and technical assistance to a wide range of multidisciplinary professionals and others (including children’s advocacy center staff) with respect to the judicial handling and investigative response to child abuse and neglect cases.

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