The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund provides grants to prevent child abuse and neglect by increasing protective factors in order to strengthen families and promote well-being.
Donor Name: Idaho Children’s Trust Fund
State: Idaho
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $1000-$7500
Details:
The Idaho Legislature established the Idaho Children’s Trust Fund to support efforts designed to prevent child abuse and neglect within the state. The Children’s Trust (ICTF) holds the vision that all Idaho children are valued, and that they grow up in a world where all children have the opportunity to thrive. The ICTF is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect through funding, educating, supporting and building awareness among community based organizations who share mission.
Idaho Children’s Trust Fund is more than a funder. It believes that by providing resources, training, and technical assistance to organizations that work directly with families, they lend continuity to the work you do. The hands-on approach to funding is based on building relationships with and between grantees. These relationships act as the connective tissue to elevate the work they do into a coordinated movement. They rely heavily on collaboration and are tied to the national movement in a way that gives us knowledge of best practices in the prevention arena. ICTF’s funding mechanisms are strategically utilized to support initiatives which are:
- Stewards of Children- child sexual abuse prevention training
- the Crying Plan -abusive head trauma prevention planning
- Strengthening Families -a comprehensive strengths-based approach to prevention
- HOPE Conquers ACES- Training on healing-engaged/trauma-informed care implementation and the power of positive experiences to prevent and mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
Successful applicants will be those who further ICTF’s mission directly or have the potential and desire to and thus will benefit from ICTF funding, resources, and knowledge in order to strengthen their work.
Core Considerations
- Idaho’s children are the state’s greatest asset
- Keeping them safe from abuse and neglect is mission. Too often children suffer abuse and neglect with wide and far-reaching consequences that afflict for a lifetime.
- Preventing abuse and neglect is critical to protecting Idaho’s children
- Prevention efforts begin with shifting the focus from targeting family risks and deficits to building family strengths and resiliency.
- Research shows that the best way to prevent child abuse is to educate, inform, support and partner with parents to help them build strong, healthy families
- Therefore the majority of the funding dollars distributed by the ICTF are allocated to providers who embed effective prevention strategies into their parenting and early care and education programs to strengthen and support parents and families.
- Child Neglect is a failure to meet children’s basic needs
- whether the failure is the responsibility of parents, communities or society – and this void places children in harm’s way. Neglect represented 75% of all reported child abuse and neglect cases in 2014 (childtrends). Yet understanding it and its complexities pales compared to understanding of other maltreatment. The ICTF is interested in projects that intentionally address neglect or look at one of the factors most frequently identified with it: history of trauma, poverty, maternal depression, substance abuse, devaluing challenges of child rearing.
- Underserved populations are at even greater risk
- Populations can be underserved for a variety of reasons. Rural communities, homeless families and communities of color are particularly vulnerable to scarce resources and a lack of community support. ICTF is dedicated to targeting these populations to increase community support and to ameliorate the negative effects of social isolation.
Funding Information
The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund offers grant funding within the $1000-$7500 range.
Eligibility Criteria
- Programs must be located in Idaho or provide services to residents of Idaho.
- Grants are available to public or private non-profit and faith-based organizations, government agencies, (e.g. schools or health departments) or qualified individuals who provide community based educational or service programs designed to reduce or prevent child abuse and neglect.
- Programs must have an Employer Identification Number (EIN) and an identified fiscal agent.
- Programs must provide certificates of commercial general liability insurance and worker’s compensation insurance with their grant application.
- Applicants must register for a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) prior to applying for the grant and include it on the application. No grantee will receive an award without a UEI number.
Project Criteria
- Proposed projects should be carefully designed with strategies for preventing or reducing the occurrence of child abuse or neglect based within the strength-based protective factors framework and using, whenever possible, evidence-based curriculum and evaluation tools.
- Proposed projects must be designed using research based or best practice methods. Research must be cited in the grant application.
- Proposed projects should be designed in a way that will help to solve challenges that are specific to the targeted population; e.g., services for Hispanic families should take into consideration the possibility of specific language barriers and cultural issues.
- Project staff must be willing to collect, maintain and report various demographic and programmatic data about their services.
- Project staff must be willing to partner with participant parents and clients to increase participant involvement, satisfaction and leadership within their organization.
- Project must include a logic model detailing how strategies activate protective factors and how change is measured.
- Project must have administrative capacity to turn in reimbursement requests within 60 days of reimbursable activity. Failure to do so could result in a denied reimbursement.
- A final report will be required.
For more information, visit Idaho Children’s Trust Fund.
