Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development
Posted by Administration for Children and Families
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development — is cataloged under number HHS-2016-ACF-ACYF-CT-1178 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 93.648, posted by Administration for Children and Families. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on April 14, 2016 and last updated on May 10, 2016. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $750,000 -- $1,000,000. The agency has projected $1.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $1.0 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $1.0 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 June 13, 2016. 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
$750,000 -- $1,000,000
Close Date
June 13, 2016
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
Posted
April 14, 2016
Est. Total Funding
$1,000,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The published funding opportunity announcement has been modified to clarify the expected funding for all budget periods. Expected funding information for the 60-month project has been added to Section II, Federal Award Information, and Section IV.2, Project Budget and Budget Justification. This funding opportunity announcement has further been modified in Section IV.2, Table of Contents to require inclusion of a table of contents and in Section IV. 2, Third-Party Agreements to define third-party agreements and describe requirements. Staff turnover has high fiscal costs to child welfare agencies and even higher human costs to the children and families served by those agencies. Continuous staff turnover negatively affects safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children and families by impacting the timeliness, continuity and quality of services. This emphasizes the importance of a systematic, continuous process for attention to workforce issues as an important mechanism for improved outcomes not only for worker recruitment and retention but also safety, permanency, and well-being for children and families. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to establish, by awarding a cooperative agreement, one Quality Improvement Center (QIC). The purpose of the QIC is to conduct a multi-site demonstration project that will address pervasive workforce challenges in child welfare. This QIC will select or create and then test innovative and promising workforce improvement strategies to examine their effectiveness and utility in child welfare systems. The QIC’s goal is to demonstrate whether specific strategies improve recruitment and retention outcomes of state and tribal systems and to assess how outcomes for children and families are affected. The QIC will choose or develop replicable workforce interventions and then engage in partnerships with public child welfare agencies to implement and rigorously evaluate the strategies using standardized measures and common outcomes to allow for comparisons across sites. Findings will be publicly disseminated. Outcomes will include: - Evidence-based strategies and interventions that when applied to identified workforce issues results in: - Improved worker recruitment and retention rates and worker satisfaction and intention-to-stay outcomes for agencies; - Improved agency culture and climate that supports worker recruitment and retention; - Improved child welfare practices related to safety, permanency, and well-being for children and families. - Workforce interventions that can be replicated in other child welfare systems. This is a 60-month project with five 12-month budget periods. Year 1 will be funded at $1 million. It is expected that years 2-5 will be funded at $3.5 million for each year.
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