Deadline: 3/01/2020
Amount: $30,000 avg
Description:
The purpose of the Children’s Initiative component is to support direct service projects that promote resilience, stability, and psycho-social health for youth ages 12 and above who have been traumatized by adverse childhood experiences. Projects must:
- Directly serve youth who have been significantly traumatized by adverse childhood experiences, including physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; domestic violence, substance abuse or mental illness in the household; parental separation or divorce; incarceration of a household member; or physical or emotional neglect
- Offer age-appropriate therapeutic interventions, activities, or services that promote resilience, stability, and psycho-social health in traumatized youth
- Provide services that go beyond crisis intervention and the establishment of initial safety
- Include a plan for evaluating program effectiveness, with metrics that demonstrate the impact of the program on the participating youth
- Enhance the relationship between the youth and at least one significant adult, such as a parent, primary caregiver, or other adult with whom the youth has a meaningful and ideally long-term relationship
- Be a new program for the organization, or a new therapeutic component to an existing program, currently in development or within its first year of implementation
- Use trauma-informed practices and policies and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing trauma training for involved staff