The Alaska Children’s Trust (ACT) is accepting applications for Community Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants to ensure all Alaska children live in safe, secure, and nurturing environments.
Donor Name: Alaska Children’s Trust (ACT)
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/18/2022
Grant Size: Up to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Alaska Children’s Trust (ACT) recognizes, to effectively impact current trends, ACT must utilize their resources in a strategic and sustainable fashion. Alaska has struggled for decades with some of the highest rates (per capita) of child abuse and neglect in the nation. Their future is influenced greatly by the types and level of trauma their children are exposed to and the amount of resilience they are equipped with to handle these traumas. This acknowledgement drives much of ACT’s work to ensure all Alaska children live in safe, secure, and nurturing environments.
ACT has identified three core areas of focus on the prevention of child abuse and neglect: (1) early childhood development, (2) empowering youth, and (3) building community resilience. These core areas promote thriving children, healthy families, and community development. Tier 1 Community Based Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention grants fund within all 3 portfolio areas.
- Early Childhood Development
- ACT will provide grants that support early childhood development work based on research that highlights the importance of social-emotional development in the first three years of a child’s life. Organizations funded under this portfolio area will have a specific focus on ages 0 to 3 years. ACT chose this age because of its importance in ensuring children have safe, healthy, secure, and engaging environments that allow them to develop social attachments, acquire physical and intellectual abilities, and build positive self-identities and trust of others. It is also the age range where the largest service gaps exist in Alaska, with childcare and early education programs for infants being the least available and affordable. The rapid brain growth that occurs during this time influences all future functioning and long-term school success.
- ACT will therefore prioritize funding for organizations that emphasize social-emotional learning and development and infant mental health including, but not limited to: high quality, evidence-based home visitation programs and parent skills training programs.
- Empowering Youth
- These grants will invest in organizations that are developing, modifying, implementing, and/or evaluating effective and proven curriculum to help students ages 12 to 16 learn the major tenets of developing healthy, intimate relationships. Curricula will have a clear focus on sexual education, be medically accurate, culturally-responsive, and LGBTQ-inclusive. Topics addressed will include, but not be limited to: issues of consent; domestic and sexual violence, delaying parenthood; and; effective reproductive health interventions. Grantees in this area must be able to show how their approach is researched-based and can be effectively evaluated.
- Building Community Resilience
- ACT will invest in community-based efforts/initiatives focused on preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and building resilience. ACT recognizes communities know their children and families best, and know how to help them prevent child abuse and neglect and heal those who have experienced trauma
Funding Information
- Total Award Available: Up to $10,000
- Grant Cycle: One year (July 1 through June 30)
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are accepted from qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, or equivalent organizations located in the state of Alaska. Equivalent organizations may include tribes, local or state governments, schools, or Regional Educational Attendance Areas. Organizations that have received past awards and are in good standing are eligible to apply. Applicants with open ACT grants must be current on all grant reporting. Applications from organizations with outstanding grant reports will not be accepted.
For more information, visit Alaska Children’s Trust (ACT).
