Applicants are invited to apply for the TIER 1 of 2024 Community Based Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Grants.
Donor Name: Alaska Children’s Trust
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/22/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
When children, youth, families, and communities have the knowledge, skills, support, and resources to thrive, the risk of children and youth experiencing child abuse and neglect is greatly reduced.
Alaska has struggled for decades with some of the highest rates (per capita) of child abuse and neglect in the nation. To effectively address this complex issue, ACT is utilizing the Center for Disease Control’s framework to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences and focus theTier 1 Community Based Prevention grants on upstream/primary prevention.
Upstream/primary prevention of child abuse and neglect involves addressing root causes and risk factors before instances of maltreatment occur. Key strategies that can prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place include:
- Strengthening economic supports for families.
- Promoting social norms that protect against adverse childhood experiences.
- Ensuring a strong start for children and paving the way for them to reach their full potential.
- Teaching skills to help parents and youth handle stress, manage emotions, and tackle everyday challenges.
- Connecting youth to caring adults and activities.
Funding Information
Up to $10,000, depending on which funding category the proposal chooses.
Projects can only address one funding category. Please select which funding category your project corresponds with the best. Depending on which one is selected, the available amounts awarded will vary:
- Strengthening Economic Supports for Families (Up to $5,000): projects that provide concrete supports to children, youth, and families.
- Skill Development (Up to $10,000): projects that provide parents, caregivers, and/or providers with training specifically in identifying and preventing child sexual abuse.
- Promoting Social Norms (Up to $5,000): projects that incorporate lived experience approaches into the workof preventing child abuse and neglect.
- Out of School Time & Mentoring (Up to $10,000): projects that support outside of school time programing connecting youth with supportive adults to build skills for life, either in group or one-onone tutoring/mentorship settings.
Grant Period
July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are accepted from qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, tribes, local or state governments, schools, or Regional Educational Attendance Areas in the state of Alaska. Organizations that have received past awards and are in good standing are eligible to apply. Applicants with open Alaska Children Trust grants must be current on all grant reporting. Applications from organizations with outstanding grant reports will not be accepted.
- Non-Eligible: Individuals, for-profit, 501(c)(4) or (c)(6) organizations, non-Alaska based organizations, and federal government agencies are not eligible for competitive grants.
- Applications for religious indoctrination or other religious activities, endowment building, deficit financing, fundraising, lobbying, electioneering and activities of political nature will not be considered. Nor will any proposals that promote discrimination based on race, gender, marital status, sexual preference, age, disability, creed or ethnicity. Funds cannot be used for expenses incurred prior to the grant award.
- Alaska Children’s Trust is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or military status, in the programs or activities.
For more information, visit ACT.
