The California Department of Social Services’ Office of Child Abuse Prevention is pleased to announce the release of the Planting Prosperity Program Request for Applications (RFA).
Donor Name: California Department of Social Services
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of the Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/29/2022
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The purpose of this grant opportunity is to identify up to ten Applicants to accomplish the following goals:
- Goal 1: Grantees must provide an innovative primary or secondary child abuse prevention program in California directly or through competitively-awarded micro-grants or subcontracts with community-based/neighborhood-level organizations that will operate new innovative prevention programs or that currently operate innovative primary prevention programs. Grantees are encouraged to focus on providing primary or secondary prevention outreach and support especially for families and communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty, including Black, brown, indigenous, migrant, and LGBTQ+ children and families, and rural communities.
- Goal 2: Grantees must develop a project strategy, manage operational processes, and mobilize resources.
- Goal 3: Provide primary or secondary prevention services through a trauma-informed lens. All services will identify and address racial disproportionality and disparities in the community(ies) served.
Objectives
Strategic Objective One: Expand the capacity of prevention partners and family-strengthening organizations to support the safety and well-being of children.
- Strategy 1a: Disseminate culturally respectful and trauma-informed prevention and promotion resources and tools.
- Strategy 1b: Empower parents and youth to provide meaningful contributions as system partners and advocates.
- Strategy 1c: Strengthen the capacity of providers to build resiliency in families and effectively implement evidence-based and evidence-informed prevention programs and practices.
- Strategy 1d: Build the capacity of partners to work effectively with diverse populations, particularly children and families in poverty.
Strategic Objective Two: Unite advocates and partners around child safety and well-being agenda.
- Strategy 2a: Partner with communities to strengthen prevention networks and build the leadership needed to sustain community efforts.
- Strategy 2b: Advance the effective use of prevention data and performance measures.
- Strategy 2c: Conduct research and evaluation that will inform the field on prevention strategies.
Funding Information
A total of approximately $3,000,000 of federal funding will be available to fund up to ten grantees (at a level of approximately $100,000 per year, per grantee) to implement innovative primary or secondary prevention programs with a grant period beginning October 1, 2022, and ending September 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding for this grant opportunity may not be used for the expansion of current OCAP-funded programs.
- Applicants must have demonstrated the ability to successfully partner with key stakeholders, communities, and/or state, county, or tribal government agencies.
- Applicants must be trauma-informed. In the context of care, the applicant organization must realize the widespread impact of trauma and understand potential paths for recovery; recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families, staff, and others; and respond by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices, and seek to actively resist re-traumatization.
- Applicants must be willing and able to actively participate in shared twice-yearly learning conversations located in Sacramento or via webinar.
- Applicants must be willing and able to collaborate with the OCAP in identifying appropriate evaluation methods and data collection
- Applicants that are awarded a grant must be available for monthly progress calls with the assigned OCAP grant manager.
- Preference will be given to applicants who will distribute a portion of the funding as competitively awarded micro-grants and/or subcontracts with community-based/neighborhood-level nonprofit organizations in California which will operate new innovative primary or secondary prevention programs, or that currently operate innovative primary or secondary prevention programs.
- Preference will be given to Indian Tribes or Non-Profit Tribal Organizations in California.
- The OCAP intends to select grantees throughout the state of California to facilitate equitable geographic distribution of funding across a variety of regions within California.
For more information, visit Planting Prosperity Program Grant.
