Administration for Children Youth and Families: Initiative for Enhanced Mental Health Services in Child Welfare

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This department is offering the grant to improve access to evidence-based mental and behavioral health services for children in the welfare system. The grant aims to enhance social and emotional well-being by providing early and effective services tailored to the needs of children and families. Grant recipients will collaborate with public agencies to implement evidence-based practices, evaluate system changes, and ensure sustainable service delivery. Funds can be used for various activities to transform services and improve access to mental health care. Projects are expected to run for 60 months with a budget ceiling of $640,000 per period. Closing date: Jul 20, 2012.

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Opportunity ID: 172055

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General Information

Document Type:: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:: HHS-2012-ACF-ACYF-CO-0279
Funding Opportunity Title:: Initiative to Improve Access to Needs-Driven, Evidence-Based/Evidence-informed Mental and Behavioral Health Services in Child Welfare
Opportunity Category:: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity:: Income Security and Social Services
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards:: 8
Assistance Listings Number(s):: 93.652 — Adoption Opportunities
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: No
Version:: Synopsis 1
Posted Date:: May 22, 2012
Last Updated Date::
Original Closing Date for Applications:: Jul 20, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications:: Jul 20, 2012
Archive Date:: Jul 23, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding:: $ 5,120,000
Award Ceiling:: $640,000
Award Floor:: $320,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants:: Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility:: Eligible applicants include State, tribal or county public child welfare agencies and private child welfare agencies under contract with the public child welfare agency.
If the primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement is not a public child welfare agency, the applicant must document a strong partnership with the public child welfare agency(ies) with responsibility for administering the child welfare program(s) in the targeted geographical area(s) and court(s) having jurisdiction over the targeted child welfare population.
Applicants are required to partner with key agencies, e.g., a university, medical center, mental health agency, and/or community-based provider with nationally demonstrated expertise in child traumatic stress interventions and experience with the population(s) that the applicant proposes to serve with their proposed project.
Collaborative efforts are strongly encouraged, but applicants must identify a primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement. Faith-based and community organizations that meet eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

Additional Information

Agency Name:: Administration for Children and Families
Description:: This forecast updates the previously forecasted Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery. The previously forecasted FOA on Integrating Trauma is now Initiative to Improve Access to Needs-Driven, Evidence-Based/Evidence-informed Mental and Behavioral Health Services in Child Welfare.
The Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Children’s Bureau (CB), announces the availability of competitive grant funds authorized by the Adoption Opportunities Program. The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit proposals for projects that will improve the social and emotional well-being of targeted children and youth in child welfare systems that have mental and behavioral health needs. These grants, in the form of cooperative agreements, are designed to:

Assist public child welfare agencies, through interagency collaboration, in improving adoption outcomes by creating a flexible service array that provides early access to effective mental and behavioral health services that match the needs of children, youth, and families in the service population;
Support the implementation of evidence-based or evidence-informed screening, assessment, case planning, and service array reconfiguration practices in child welfare systems while simultaneously targeting and de-scaling practices and services that: 1) are not effective; and/or 2) do not meet the assessed needs of the target population;
Identify factors and strategies associated with successful installation, implementation, and sustainability of service system changes, and;
Evaluate the effect of implemented system changes on safety, permanency, well-being and adoption outcomes.

Applicants should carefully review this full FOA and consider the level of effort necessary to meet the purpose of the FOA and the evaluation-related requirements. To fully meet the intent of the FOA, grantees must adopt and implement a combination of specific, clearly-defined screening, assessment, case planning and service array reconfiguration activities. To do so, grantees must ensure that their proposed interventions and integrated programs are an appropriate fit for the characteristics and needs of the groups targeted for services. Further, the grantee’s approach and plan must be feasible based on the capacity, resources, collaborative infrastructure, and conditions of the systems in which the program strategies are to be delivered.
Grant funds may be used for the process of service transformation efforts to improve access to appropriate, evidence-based or evidence-informed mental and behavioral health services. Activities may include, but are not limited to building collaborative partnerships, assessment, planning, capacity-building, training, installation, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Successful applicants will design a plan to sustain service transformations within their child welfare service delivery systems.
It is anticipated that these awards will be for a 60-month project with five 12-month budget periods.
The estimated award ceiling is $640,000 per budget period.

Link to Additional Information::
Grantor Contact Information:: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Version History

Version Modification Description Updated Date
Synopsis 1

Package Status

Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:

Package No: 1

Assistance Listings: 93.652
Competition ID: HHS-2012-ACF-ACYF-CO-0279
Competition Title: Initiative to Improve Access to Needs-Driven, Evidence-Based/Evidence-informed Mental and Behavioral Health Services in Child Welfare
Opportunity Package ID: PKG00123072
Opening Date: May 22, 2012
Closing Date: Jul 20, 2012
Agency Contact Information:: Daphne Weeden
Who Can Apply:: Organization Applicants
mendatory_forms Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) [V2.1]
Budget Information for Non-Construction Programs (SF-424A) [V1.0]
Assurances for Non-Construction Programs (SF-424B) [V1.1]
Project/Performance Site Location(s) [V1.4]
Project Narrative Attachment Form [V1.1]
Budget Narrative Attachment Form [V1.1]
Grants.gov Lobbying Form [V1.1]
optional_forms Other Attachments Form [V1.1]
Faith Based EEO Survey [V1.2]
Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) [V1.1]

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Packages

Assistance Listings Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions Who Can Apply:
93.652 HHS-2012-ACF-ACYF-CO-0279 Initiative to Improve Access to Needs-Driven, Evidence-Based/Evidence-informed Mental and Behavioral Health Services in Child Welfare PKG00123072 May 22, 2012 Jul 20, 2012 View Daphne Weeden Organization Applicants

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