2013 Individual cac and collaborative grants

1. 2013 Individual cac and collaborative grants Irina Hein, Director of Member Relations and Grants

2. 2013 Grants Application Process • Release of RFP: February 13, 2013 • Application Due Date: March 15, 2013 • Review Process: March 15- April 12, 2013 • Award Notification: • April 12, 2013 for Program Improvement, Program Development, CAC Response to US DC and US Territories, and CAC Response to CSEC • Budget Review and Approval

3. Program Improvement • Eligibility- NCA Accredited Children’s Advocacy Centers, Associate/Developing Children’s Advocacy Centers, Affiliate Children’s Advocacy Centers, Non-Member Multidisciplinary Teams (multidisciplinary teams in areas in which there are no existing CACs), Tribal Multidisciplinary Teams. • Maximum Award Amount- $20,000 (You may request less than the maximum award.) • Goals: Applicant must choose only one of the goals listed below in their application. • To increase the ability to provide trauma-focused, evidence-supported mental health treatment coordinated through and/or in the CAC/MDT. • To increase the ability to provide quality medical evaluations coordinated through and/or in the CAC/MDT. • To develop, implement, and evaluate the CAC’s Cultural Competency Plan to better serve underrepresented or underserved populations. • Preference will be given to collaborative projects that involve more than one CAC. Projects that impact multiple CACs are strongly encouraged to apply. Any collaborative projects must include a letter of support from their Chapter organization as well as from all organizations participating in the collaborative application. All the participating organizations in such applications need to be listed on the application itself; however, only one organization shall be appointed as a fiscal agent for the award.

4. Program Development- Satellite Centers • Eligibility- NCA Accredited Children’s Advocacy Center that is applying to act as a Host agency to a Satellite center • Maximum Award- $23,000 (You may request less than the maximum award.) • Goal: • To increase Children’s Advocacy Center services for underserved areas • To establish a Satellite center in a previously un-served community, in compliance with NCA-approved Chapter growth plans

5. Children’s Advocacy Center Response for the US District of Columbia and US Territories • Eligibility- NCA Accredited Children’s Advocacy Centers , Associate/Developing Children’s Advocacy Centers, Affiliate Children’s Advocacy Centers and MDTs where there are no CACs in the District of Columbia and the US territories. • Maximum Award- $15,000 (You may request less than the maximum award.) • Goal: • To improve the quality of the CAC or MDT response. • To increase access to the services of an accredited children’s advocacy center.

6. Children’s Advocacy Center Response to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) • Eligibility- NCA Accredited Children’s Advocacy Centers • Those awardees that received a CAC Response to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) grant in FY11 are not eligible to apply for FY12 funds for this same grant type i.e. CSEC. • Maximum Award Amount- $20,000 (You may request less than the maximum award.) • Goal: • To support the development and expansion of services to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children provided by the CAC. • To support the development of a coordinated response to child sexual abuse for commercial purposes through trainings and community awareness campaigns.

7. How To Apply To apply: • Open the FY12 RFP • Click the link beside the grant type you wish to apply for. • Sign into the grant system and the application will come up. • You can either submit the application or you can hit “Save and Finish Later” • If you save the application, you will receive an email with information on accessing it again later. DO NOT use the links in the RFP to access your “In Progress” applications. ONLY use the link in the email or use the link below to access your in progress applications: https://www.GrantRequest.com/SID_1093

8. Things to Remember • Before you start your application, check again whether the title on the top left of the application page corresponds to the grant you are applying for; if not please go back to the RFP and click on the correct link. • Please be sure to enter the accurate and up to date contact information for your organization. Be cautious when typing in this information as it will affect NCA’s future correspondence with you. • Please don’t WAIT until the last day to submit your application. While technical support is available for the system, it has limited staffing. It is the applicant's responsibility to begin early enough to complete the process. • While filling out the online application, do not leave it open for long periods of time. This will increase the likelihood of loosing your information and overloading the server. We ask that you complete the documents you plan to submit in advance. Also, you may click “Save and Finish Later.” You can login again to continue your work at any time before the submission date. • Please DO NOT submit duplicate applications. Although as an organization, you may be eligible to apply to multiple grant categories, please do not submit duplicate applications in a singe grant category. Unfortunately, this will effect the success of uploading your application. • NCA cannot view your application until you click the final “submit” button. NCA cannot accept any other method of submission (such as fax, mail, e-mail) besides this online application system. • All submissions are final and after you click the “submit” button, NCA can not change anything in your application. Please check your work carefully prior to submitting. • If you do not receive a confirmation email after clicking on the “submit” button, please contact NCA IMMEDIATELY. This email is the only way to confirm that your application was submitted successfully and is the only document NCA will consider as proof of your timely submission.