Alaska Children's Trust Tier 1 – Community Based Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Grants
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The Tier 1 Community Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants program supports upstream/primary prevention strategies and activities in order to reduce the occurrence of and strengthen responses to child abuse and neglect in Alaska families and communities.
Proposed projects must address only 1 of the following funding categories:
- Strengthening economic supports for families - to provide concrete supports to children, youth, and families
- Skill development - to provide parents, caregivers, and/or providers with training specifically in identifying and preventing child sexual abuse
- Promoting social norms - to incorporate lived experience approaches into the work of preventing child abuse and neglect
- Out of school time and mentoring - to support outside of school time programing connecting youth with supportive adults to build skills for life
Upstream/Primary prevention strategies include:
- Promoting equity and inclusion
- Promoting healthy parenting skills and strengthening families
- Addressing social determinants of health that create an environment that leads to child abuse and neglect
- Providing universally accessible supports and services
- Focusing on existing strengths and promoting continued growth and development
- Fostering parent leadership and empowering parents to identify resources, support and strategies to help them parent more effectively
- Incorporating an understanding of the impacts of both adverse childhood experiences and positive childhood experiences/protective factors into prevention strategies
- Promoting culturally relevant strategies that are responsive to communities' unique needs
- Supporting evidence-based or promising practices
- Utilizing data to guide the work
Applications will be accepted from entities in Alaska that are:
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations
- Local and state government agencies
- Tribes
- Schools
- Regional educational attendance areas
$5,000 - $10,000 for a one-year project period, depending on the funding category.
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