The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund offers grants to support efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect within the state.
Donor Name: Idaho Children’s Trust Fund
State: Idaho
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
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 the mission.
Purpose
ICTF is more than a funder. They believe 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 the 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).
Core Considerations
- Idaho’s children are the state’s greatest asset. Keeping them safe from abuse and neglect is the 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 the 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 $1000-$10,000 range, to programs that seek to prevent child abuse and neglect by increasing protective factors in order to strengthen families and promote well-being.
Grant Period
April 3, 2025 to March 31, 2026.
Eligible Organizations
- 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.
For more information, visit ICTF.
