Grant Funding Available (Closing March 13, 2023) — Support provided through this opportunity offers strategic multi-system and multi-level collaboration between child welfare, ECE, and other relevant partners to prevent child abuse and neglect and provide comprehensive support to children and families. Grant recipients will implement strategies to ensure that coordination and communication between relevant partners become institutionalized. Learn more.
Grant Funding Available (Closing March 13, 2023) — This Notice of Funding Opportunity will support the development and dissemination of best practices to strengthen the capacity of child abuse hotline staff to distinguish between poverty and willful neglect. This funding will support building a national messaging campaign on how individuals can become a source of support to families in their community by acknowledging the impact of racial inequities and seeking solutions that can help mitigate child safety concerns before they rise to the level of crisis. Learn more.
Grant Funding Available (Closing April 27, 2023) — The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education (HTYPE) Demonstration Program. The goal of the HTYPE Demonstration Program is to fund local educational agencies (LEA) to develop and implement programs to prevent human trafficking victimization through the provision of skills-based human trafficking training and education for school staff and students as specified in the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018.
SAMHSA is soliciting grant applications to expand substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support services in existing drug courts. Up to $400,000 per year of funding is available for 5 years. Applications are due March 6, 2023. Learn more.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimates that 19 percent of children and youth who ran away from foster care likely experienced sex trafficking. This new information memorandum elevates resources to help states in meet legal requirements to protect children and youth in the child welfare system from negative outcomes associated with human trafficking. The IM provides an overview of federal statutes related to human trafficking among children and youth in the child welfare system, highlights resources to meet those requirements and provides guidance, best practices, recommendations, training, and technical assistance.
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