OJJDP FY 2015 VOCA Children’s Advocacy Centers Membership and Accreditation Program
This program will fund a national membership and accreditation organization for children’s advocacy center programs.
Children’s advocacy centers provide a coordinated response to victims of child abuse through multidisciplinary teams composed of representatives from community agencies and professionals involved with intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases.
The funding will enable the successful applicant to provide services to membership organizations and to implement standards for program accreditation.
This program is authorized under the Victims of Child Abuse Act, 42 U.S.C.
§ 1300 2.
Children’s advocacy centers provide a coordinated response to victims of child abuse through multidisciplinary teams composed of representatives from community agencies and professionals involved with intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases.
The funding will enable the successful applicant to provide services to membership organizations and to implement standards for program accreditation.
This program is authorized under the Victims of Child Abuse Act, 42 U.S.C.
§ 1300 2.
Related Programs
Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse and the Regional and Local Children"s Adv
Department of Justice
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Full Announcement
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations) and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.
OJJDP welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients.
The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program.
OJJDP will consider only one application per lead applicant; however, subrecipients may be part of multiple proposals.OJJDP may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2015/CAC.pdf
Contact:
For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, or via e-mail to support@grants.gov. Hotline hours of operation are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except federal holidays. For assistance with any ot
Agency Email Description:
Agency Email:
responsecenter@ncjrs.gov
Date Posted:
2015-04-10
Application Due Date:
2015-05-26
Archive Date:
2015-06-24
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