Funding-ACF - Quality
Improvement Center on Child Welfare Involved Children and Families Experiencing
Domestic Violence; July 22, 2016
Agency
Administration
for Children and Families
Description
The
purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to award a 5-year
cooperative agreement to establish one Quality Improvement Center (QIC) to develop,
implement and support innovative collaborative models, policies, procedures and
interventions targeted toward improving the safety, permanency and well-being
for families that are: (1) pregnant and/or have young children, (2) involved in
the child welfare system, and (3) experiencing domestic violence. The QIC
on Child Welfare Involved Children and Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
will generate and nationally disseminate knowledge regarding best practices and
effective policy and practice models for collaborative practices and
interventions for these children and families.
The
following are the expected objectives of the QIC:
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Collect,
develop and disseminate information that helps child welfare agencies, domestic
violence programs, court professionals and early childhood programs to better
serve the needs of families that are (1) pregnant and/or have young children, (2) involved in the child welfare system,
and (3) experiencing domestic violence;
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Identify
evidence-based and/or evidence-informed, promising and innovative strategies
that focus on building collaborative response models, practices and system
interventions - including the infrastructure necessary to support these
services;
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Develop,
support and implement four to six projects in state, county, and/or tribal
child welfare systems to pilot identified collaborative response models and/or
systems interventions to better serve the needs of these families;
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Assist
selected project sites in assessing, developing and strengthening partnerships,
policies and procedures with domestic violence programs to implement services
that are responsive to victims of domestic violence and their children,
including, being trauma-informed and programmatically responsive to the safety
needs of these families throughout their engagement with child welfare;
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Rigorously
evaluate, through site-specific and, if applicable a cross-site evaluation, the
work of the four to six projects that will further build the knowledge in this
field and allow for the transfer of knowledge and implementation of these
piloted strategies in other child welfare systems; and
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Improve
the safety, permanency and well-being for pregnant and/or parenting families
experiencing domestic violence involved in the child welfare system.
Announcement
Number:
HHS-2016-ACF-ACYF-CA-1184
Closing
Date:
Jul
22, 2016
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=284098
Contact
Information
Jean Blankenship
(888) 203-6161