Early Education Partnerships to Expand Protective Factors for ...

Early Education Partnerships to Expand Protective Factors for Children with Child Welfare Involvement ? The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit proposals for projects to improve the socio-emotional and behavioral well-being of infants and young children, ages birth to?5 years old, and their families, through collaborative service delivery. Specifically, these 24-month grant projects will build infrastructure capacity between State, local, or tribal child welfare agencies and early childhood systems to ensure that infants and young children who are in or at-risk of entering into foster care have access to comprehensive, high-quality early care and education services. Projects also will promote and utilize multi-disciplinary interventions that build on protective factors and mediate the effects of adverse experiences. The target population includes the range of children across the child welfare spectrum (from prevention to permanency), including children that are at-risk of being reported to child welfare, have been reported to child welfare, are in child welfare custody, reside in in-home care, reside in out-of-home care, are receiving post-adoption services, or any combination thereof. Applicants will be required to demonstrate commitment of the appropriate State, local, or tribal child welfare agency and an appropriate early care and education agency(ies) to undertake the proposed work under this funding opportunity. These projects may develop new models or replicate existing models of collaborative policies, procedures, and/or practices for identifying and addressing the early care and educational needs of this population. The lessons from these initiatives will inform the field of strategies to support the optimal development of infants and young children in or at risk of entering foster care by providing continuous comprehensive, high-quality early care and education services. This funding opportunity provides States, tribes, and localities the opportunity to address these challenges. Current Closing Date for Applications: June 11, 2012. Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.

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