Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
Posted by Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute — is cataloged under number HHS-2013-ACF-ACYF-CT-0596 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 93.648, posted by Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on May 6, 2013. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $2,000,000 -- $4,100,000. The agency has projected $4.1 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $4.1 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $4.1 million. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on July 5, 2013. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully — federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed — it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities.
Award Range
$2,000,000 -- $4,100,000
Close Date
July 5, 2013
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
Posted
May 6, 2013
Est. Total Funding
$4,100,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) is committed to facilitating healing and recovery and promoting the social and emotional well being of children who have experienced maltreatment, exposure to violence and/ or trauma. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund a National Child Welfare Institute that will build the capacity of the child welfare workforce to effectively respond to the complex needs of the children and families in order to foster social and emotional well-being and promote healthy and positive functioning. This project will advance Federal priorities while supporting systems and workforce development initiatives at the State and National Levels to build the competencies and skills of the child welfare workforce. This targeted 5-year cooperative agreement will create a national center of excellence to address workforce development and leadership capacity building in service of systems change in child welfare agencies. The child welfare field faces an ongoing workforce crisis requiring creative and comprehensive organizational interventions as well as professional development opportunities for professionals serving at all levels in child welfare agencies. This initiative will build on research and evaluation findings from the last ten years of federal child welfare training funding to address the current pressing needs in workforce development of an integrated approach to improve safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children. This program will focus on building the leadership and change management skills in professionals and improving the systems that recruit, train, supervise, manage and retain them. The following key components will be included: BSW and MSW Traineeships Child Welfare Scholars Programs Organizational Intervention Component demonstrating a clear linkage between School of Social Work and public child welfare Leadership, trauma-informed and evidence based practice curriculum provided to pre-service and inservice child welfare staff Leadership Academies Leadership Academy for Deans and Directors Leadership Academy for State Child Welfare Agency Directors Leadership Academy for Middle Managers Leadership Academy for Supervisors Technical Assistance on Best Practices in Child Welfare Workforce Recruitment, Selection, Retention, and Organizational Effectiveness to States, Voluntary Agencies and Tribes Development of Workforce Development Framework and Identification of Core Competencies of Child Welfare Staff Knowledge Assessment, Knowledge Building and Knowledge Management of Best Practices in Child Welfare Workforce Development National Expertise in Dissemination Strategies of these Best Practices Rigorous Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance Effort
Eligibility
06;20
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