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National Center for Child Welfare Competent Mental Health Services Funding Opportunity

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, has issued a grant notice for the National Center for Child Welfare Competent Mental Health Services. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide grants to recipients to create a national center that will work with state child welfare systems to build bridges with the mental health community for the development and training of mental health practitioners in issues related to separation, loss, grief, and trauma. This center aims to address the struggles states face in providing comprehensive mental health services for children in foster care and adoptive/guardianship homes.

Key Takeaways:

  • The grant notice, HHS-2023-ACF-ACYF-CO-0039, was issued on September 30, with an award ceiling of $4,000,000 and an expected number of awards of 1.
  • The National Center for Child Welfare Competent Mental Health Services will work with state child welfare systems to build bridges with the mental health community for the development and training of mental health practitioners.
  • The center will focus on issues related to separation, loss, grief, and trauma, with a primary goal of increasing access and availability of professionals with trauma-informed competence.
  • The center will provide individual technical assistance to child welfare systems, states, tribes, and territories in building alliances with the mental health community.
  • This funding opportunity aims to address the limitation of available mental health practitioners trained about trauma-based experiences faced by children in foster care and adoptive/guardianship homes.
  • The center will utilize a race equity lens in all its work to ensure equitable access to mental health services.
  • The development of the National Center for Child Welfare Competent Mental Health Services is expected to raise the level of utilization of existing evidence-informed, state-of-the-art child welfare competent training for mental health practitioners.

Statistics:

  • Award Ceiling: $4,000,000
  • Expected Number of Awards: 1
  • Category of Funding Activity: Income Security and Social Services
  • Eligible Applicants: State governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and non-profit organizations

Sources:

  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, CB (2023)
  • Grants.gov (2023)
  • HT Media Ltd. (2023)

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