Quality Improvement Center on Helplines and Hotlines
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- HHS-2024-ACF-ACYF-CA-0022
- Agency
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Administration for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- $2,000,000 to $2,500,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Eligible applicants
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- County Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Small Businesses
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Independent School Districts
- Special District Governments
- For Profit Organizations
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- State Governments
- City/Township Governments
- Public or Indian Housing Auth.
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks to establish a national Quality Improvement Center on Helplines and Hotlines (QIC-H2). The goal is to build the capacity of child abuse hotlines to distinguish between poverty and willful neglect, address systemic inequities, and provide warm handoffs to community-based support services as an alternative to child welfare intervention. Key deliverables include developing training materials for mandated reporters, identifying and supporting pilot sites, and widely disseminating best practices. The evaluation criteria will focus on the recipients' plans for continuous quality improvement, effectiveness evaluation, and broad dissemination of findings.
The anticipated award is a single cooperative agreement of up to $2,500,000 per budget period over a 5-year project period. The funding falls under the Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities program (CFDA 93.670). Eligible applicants include a wide range of organizations such as state/local governments, nonprofits, universities, and small businesses. The application deadline is May 31, 2024.
Synopsis
This Notice of Funding Opportunity will establish, by cooperative agreement, a Quality Improvement Center on Helplines and Hotlines (QIC-H2). The goal of the QIC-H2 is to build national capacity for community-based helplines to serve as an alternative to child welfare intervention and develop clear, evidence-based understanding of the distinction between poverty and willful parental neglect in child maltreatment assessment. To achieve these goals, the QIC-H2 has the following primary objectives: (A) Build a repository of national models and best practices for the operation of community-based helplines that can link families with needed concrete supports as a primary prevention strategy and an alternative to child protective services (CPS) hotlines. (B) Develop an evidenced-informed curriculum or supplemental training materials for mandated reporters and hotline staff to overcome bias in decision making and clearly distinguish between poverty and willful parental neglect in child abuse reporting. (C) Identify and support a limited number of diverse pilot sites with a demonstrated capacity to test selected strategies in their community. (D) Evaluate funded efforts to measure the QIC-H2's effectiveness in meeting the goals and objectives of this funding and widely disseminate findings, recommendations, and best practices.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| HHS-2024-ACF-ACYF-CA-0022_Published.pdf |
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