Description
The Department of Human Services is seeking applications for the Children's Trust Fund (CTF) grants to promote primary and secondary child abuse and neglect prevention programs in community-based settings. The CTF Board is committed to funding organizations that are part of a collaborative community-driven approach directly engaging youth, parents, and families. Applicants must provide proposals for a program or service that meets the intent of the CTF Act, which is to create community-based children's programs or services and encourage the development of new and innovative programs that will prevent child abuse and neglect. Some key areas of focus include:
• educational services in parenting;
• prenatal care;
• perinatal bonding;
• child development;
• basic childcare;
• care of children with special needs;
• coping with family stress;
• personal safety and sexual abuse prevention training for children;
• crisis care;
• aid to parents;
• child abuse counseling;
• peer support groups;
• lay health visitors;
• respite or crisis childcare; and
• early identification of families where the potential for child abuse and neglect exists.
The CTF Board has defined their funding priorities, which include fostering innovation, well-rooted evidence-based services, and emerging evidence-based services.