domesThe Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is please to announce available funding for eligible applicants to submit applications for the Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center grant.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/01/2022
Grant Size: $5,882,350
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The grant recipient will be responsible for establishing a national technical assistance, training, and research center to increase safe access to child support, paternity, and parenting time services for victims of domestic violence. The SAVES Center will conduct research to establish baseline data on victims’ needs and barriers to accessing child support services, gather information on promising practices for safe access to child support and parenting time, and build the capacity of state and tribal child support agencies to integrate comprehensive domestic violence safety procedures into child support program services. Additionally, it will develop and refine training materials and practice guides for child support case managers and legal staff, test and evaluate impacts of domestic violence safety procedures on victim access to child support and parenting time services, and develop and disseminate model domestic violence policies for child support agencies. It will accomplish this by leading cross-system collaborations with assistance agencies, the courts, legal services providers, and domestic violence service providers and coalitions.
The grant project should identify national, regional, state, and tribal domestic violence experts who will partner with the applicant in developing and disseminating technical assistance and training resources to child support agency staff, court staff, and community based domestic violence program staff. Grantees are expected to engage a research partner or partners to: conduct primary data collection on incidence of domestic violence with child support program participants, identify barriers to safe access to child support and parenting time services for victims, and assess model domestic violence procedures implemented by state and tribal child support agencies.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $5,882,350
- Award Ceiling: $5,882,350 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $5,000,000 Per Budget Period
- 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State Title IV-D agencies, or the umbrella agency and Tribal Title IV-D agencies operating comprehensive programs. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this funding opportunity announcement.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
