The Family Preservation Project will provide critical legal advocacy and social work services to low-income families at risk of entering the child welfare system and potentially having a child removed from the home.
Donor Name: District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency
State: District of Columbia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/14/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) investigates reports of child abuse and neglect and provides child protection. Services include foster care, adoption, and supportive community-based services to enhance the safety, permanence, and well-being of abused, neglected, and at-risk children and their families in the District of Columbia. We seek to achieve the highest quality of community-based services, to increase the number of families who receive community-based preventive and support services, and to expand the network of resources providing services to at-risk children and their families.
The successful Applicant shall be responsible for coordinating legal support for parents and caregivers in an effort to prevent unnecessary removals and foster care placement, minimize the emotional trauma caused by removal and to provide an opportunity for children to remain with their parents, or with family members capable of caring for them when parents are not.
Funding Information
Eligible organizations can be awarded up to $200,000.
Grant Period
12-month base year and for up to four option years to continue implementation of family preservation project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted only from legal clinics or law firms which meet established criteria
- Demonstrate ability to meet the needs identified in this RFA, and who are able to commit to implementing the grant requirements over the specified timeframes.
- Organizations may partner together to offer separate but coordinated components of the program but must identify a Lead Applicant.
- All entities that seek to do business with the District of Columbia must be:
- registered with the Office of Tax and Revenue,
- registered on the District’s procurement network (Ariba),
- entered into the District’s payment system (SOAR), and
- in compliance with tax filing requirements of the District.
- For procurements of $100,000 or more, the successful contractor must also complete other regulatory requirements, such as submitting an Equal Employment Opportunity Information Report.
- For contracts for services in the amount of $300,000 or more, the successful contractor must submit a First Source Employment Agreement Act in compliance with D.C. Official Code § 2- 219.01 et seq.
For more information, visit District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency.
