The Elder Justice Innovation Grants program supports the development and advancement of knowledge and approaches in new and emerging issues related to elder justice.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support the proliferation of appropriate, acceptable, and effective emergency and transitional housing and supportive services for older adults, including those with disabilities, who are experiencing abuse, neglect and/or exploitation. In particular, ACL seeks applications that propose innovative and cost-effective approaches for providing emergency shelter and supportive services to older adults, including those with disabilities, and that propose practical strategies to implement those approaches. Proposed activities and efforts should reflect ACL’s commitment to a person-directed approach that is based on people’s strengths, assets, goals, culture, and expectations, along with their needs, and is based on the belief that all individuals have the right to exercise choice in, and control of, the services they receive.
As a result of these grants, ACL expects the following outcomes:
- Improved knowledge of elder shelter models that are successful in:
- Providing emergency shelter /transitional housing to older adults, including those with disabilities, who have experienced abuse, neglect, and/or exploitation,
- Providing appropriate, acceptable, person-directed, and trauma-informed supportive services, and
- Transitioning older adults from emergency housing back to stable, safe, and permanent housing of their choice.
- Identification of the mechanisms that contribute to effective, sustainable, and replicable elder shelter models.
- Improved understanding of optimal methods for determining and measuring which services or combinations of services produce better outcomes for older adults, including those with disabilities, who have experienced abuse, neglect and/or exploitation.
- Improved understanding of effective approaches to equity and accessibility to respond to the unique and diverse needs in underserved populations among older adults, including those with disabilities, who have experienced abuse, neglect and/or exploitation.
- Improved capacity of local communities to meet the emergency shelter and supportive service needs older adults, including those with disabilities, who have experienced abuse, neglect, and/or exploitation.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,825,000
- Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Award Floor: $350,000
Length of Project Period
24-month project period with two 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
Domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
