The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is accepting applications for federal fiscal year (FY) 2022 Technical Assistance to the Survivors of Torture (TA SOT) Cooperative Agreement.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families – ORR
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $815,900
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
The purpose of the Initiative is to improve the quality of interventions and services for survivors of torture and their families impacted by trauma, and to increase access to effective trauma informed and culturally responsive interventions and services. The National Center shall be designed to enhance and support the Network’s capacity to develop and provide effective interventions and services for survivors of torture and their families. ORR recognizes that survivors’ families include secondary survivors who are defined in this NOFO as relatives or other individuals closely associated with a primary survivor, who are impacted by the torture and subsequent trauma in a way that threatens their health and ability to function. Therefore, ORR advocates using a whole-family approach when designing and delivering services
Objectives
The objectives of the Initiative are, as follows:
- Develop, adapt, and disseminate evidence-based practices and interventions designed to promote healing for survivors of torture and their families so that they can attend to their health, build effective support networks, and contribute to their communities.
- Create and maintain structures and systems to facilitate shared learning and collaborative research within the Network including DS SOT recipients and partner organizations.
- Provide training and technical assistance to the Network in effectively implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices and individual and family interventions for healing torture and trauma.
- Support the evaluation efforts of DS SOT recipients to develop and refine tools to accurately assess, measure, and report on the needs and outcomes of survivors.
Key Program Personnel
Key personnel is salaried or non-salaried individuals who are essential to the implementation of the program. Key personnel for this Initiative include the following:
- A Project Director whose minimum level of effort is 0.75 full-time equivalent (FTE).
- A Research Director/Coordinator whose minimum level of effort is 0.5 FTE; and
- A Program Director/Coordinator for training and technical assistance who is 1 FTE.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $815,900
- Award Floor: $815,900
- Length of Project Periods: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility is open to the following types of entities: State governments; county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized); public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments); nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS other than institutions of higher education; nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS other than institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses.
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and funding under this funding opportunity.
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