Child Welfare Training: Curriculum Development and Evaluation for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education

Post Date

May 7th 2008

Application Due Date

July 7th 2008

See link to full announcement for details. IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications submitted electronically via Grants.gov must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m., eastern time, on the due date referenced above.

Funding Opportunity Number

HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CT-0057

CFDA Number(s)

93.648

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Income Security and Social Services

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Private Institutions of Higher Education

Additional eligibility types: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) Eligible applicants must offer accredited graduate level education programs in the social sciences, such as social work, human services, child development or other accredited graduate level programs leading to a degree relevant to work in child welfare. Applicants must also present documented evidence that they have secured commitments from public child welfare agencies to jointly develop and/or improve existing staff training and retention systems. Collaborative efforts are acceptable and encouraged; however, the institution of higher education will be the primary applicant responsible for administering the grant. In addition to its partnership with one or more child welfare agencies, the grantee is expected to partner closely in its cooperative agreement with CB and to collaborate with the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center, the Fatherhood Clearinghouse, the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers, and other relevant entities in the development of the curriculum. Applications must include documented, formal partnerships, third-party agreements, or Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with partnering organizations. Foreign entities are not eligible under this announcement.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $250000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $250000

Grant Description

The Children's Bureau announces the availability of funds and requests applications for one cooperative agreement to develop, field test, revise, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a competency and experientially-based training curriculum for training child welfare professionals. This curriculum will address healthy marriage and relationship skills for populations underserved in the general population and overrepresented in the child welfare system. The Children's Bureau is particularly interested in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the curriculum and the possible expansion, replication and dissemination of the curriculum on a national level.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Administration for Children and Families

• Agency Contact:

  Julie Lee
  Julie.Lee@acf.hhs.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Julie Lee

• Agency Email Address:

  Julie.Lee@acf.hhs.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CT-0057.html