Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Protective Service (CPS) Delivery

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The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit proposals for projects that will:1. Support public child welfare systems in their efforts to provide effective mental and behavioral health services for children and families and to further develop trauma-informed systems that promote safety, permanency, and well-being; 2. Assist child welfare systems to target and divert existing resources to the implementation and/or expansion of effective clinical, trauma-focused treatments; 3. Support the implementation of trauma-focused treatment models with high fidelity in child welfare systems; 4. Identify factors and strategies associated with successful installation and implementation of trauma treatments in child welfare systems; 5. Improve the social and emotional well-being of targeted children in child welfare systems who experience trauma and are exhibiting trauma symptoms; 6. Evaluate the impact of trauma treatment on safety, permanency, well-being and adoption outcomesand 7. Complement ongoing Federal efforts to improve the standard of care for children who have experienced trauma, including the work of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. Projects funded under this FOA will:1. Replicate and scale up trauma-focused treatments to reduce traumatic stress reactions for one or more targeted groups of children in contact with the child welfare systems; 2. Take the steps necessary for the child welfare system to become more trauma-informed and receptive to the introduction or expansion of trauma-focused treatments; and3. Put into place those supports necessary to successfully implement and sustain the treatment models.Grant funds may be used for the process of service transformation efforts to improve mental and behavioral health services and further develop trauma-informed child welfare systems. Activities may include, but are not limited to training, installation, implementation, and evaluation. Successful applicants will design a plan to sustain service transformations within their child welfare service delivery systems.MODIFICATIONIn the Eligibility section, the following was added: · State governments · County governments · City or township governments · Public and State controlled institutions ofhigher education · Native American tribal governments (Federallyrecognized) · Native American tribal organizations (other thanFederally recognized tribal governments) · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with theIRS, other than institutions of higher education · Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with theIRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education

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