Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: National and Special Issue Resource Centers - Culturally Specific Special Issue Resource Center (CSSIRC)

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This announcement has been modified. Information on the address to submit applications by mail and to hand-deliver applications has been revised in Section IV.1. Address to Request Application Package and in Section IV.7. Other Submission Requirements. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), announces the solicitation of applications for awards under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants program to support three Culturally Specific Special Interest Resource Centers (CSSIRC) that will address domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts for victims of domestic violence who are members of underserved and historically marginalized racial and ethnic communities. The three CSSIRC grantees will provide national training and technical assistance focused on enhancing the cultural and linguistic relevancy of residential and non-residential service delivery, policy, research, systems change, community outreach, intervention programs, and primary prevention. More specifically, they will be expected to enhance family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence prevention and intervention efforts for victims of domestic violence and dating violence who are members of underserved and historically marginalized racial and ethnic communities, by building the capacity of domestic violence programs to provide survivor-centered, culturally relevant, trauma-informed and linguistically appropriate services and to coordinate outreach efforts to diverse communities. The CSSIRC grantees are part of a network of National and Special Issue Resource Centers providing leadership and support to the existing programs serving victims of domestic violence and their children. This is one of four National and Special Issue Resource Center funding opportunities that will be available for competition in FY 2016.

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