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Vol.5, June
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MANY (The Mid-Atlantic Network of Youth & Family Services) designs its bi-weekly electronic newsletters to bring together those organizations and individuals who are interested in the development of innovative alternatives for youth and families, and in exploring new ways to provide high quality services. MANY (MANY) is a regional network designed to strengthen and coordinate resources and services for youth and families in high-risk situations. Feel free to forward this newsletter to your colleagues. Let us know if this newsletter is useful to you and how it might be improved to better serve your needs. If you do not wish to receive this eNewsletter in the future, please reply with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the header. In This Issue: Funding SERVICES FOR DOMESTIC MINOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING The overall purpose of this demonstration project is to identify promising practices in the delivery of a wide array of services to domestic minors who have been subjected to sex or labor trafficking. specifically, the goals of this demonstration project are to (1.) provide a comprehensive array of timely and high-quality services to victims of sex and labor trafficking who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents under the age of 18; (2.) develop, enhance, or expand the community response to domestic minor victims of all forms of human trafficking; and (3.) produce a final report about the implementation of the project, including a discussion of successes, challenges, and lessons learned, that may be disseminated through OVC to the victims’ field. Application Deadline: July 13, 2009 For more information, go to: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/pdftxt/FY09_Services_Domestic_Minor_Victims.pdf BASIC CENTER PROGRAM The goal of BCP is to provide a positive alternative for youth, ensure their safety, and maximize their potential to take advantage of available shelter and non-shelter opportunities. The central purpose of BCPs is to provide youth with emergency shelter and support services that assist youth in crisis (food, clothing, counseling and referrals for health care), reunite youth with their families (as appropriate), strengthen family relationships, and help youth transition to safe and appropriate alternative living arrangements where they can become independent, self-sufficient, contributing members of society. Application Deadline: July 13, 2009 For more information, go to:http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-ACYF-CY-0023.html FAMILY CONNECTIONS DISCRETIONARY GRANTS The purpose of this funding is to help children who are in or are at-risk of entering into foster care reconnect with family members by developing and implementing grant programs in the areas of kinship navigator programs; programs utilizing intensive family-finding efforts to locate biological family and reestablish relationships; programs utilizing family group decision-making meetings; or residential family treatment programs. Application Deadline: July 6, 2009 For more information, go to:http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-ACYF-CF-0078.html VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM OVC will support fellowships in four categories:
Application Deadline: July 9, 2009. For more information, go to: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/pdftxt/FY09_Professional_Fellowship.pdf US AIRWAYS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM The US Airways Education Foundation will award grants of $4,000 each to nonprofit organizations located in the airline's hub and focus cities of Boston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. Eligible programs include educational programs that respond to the needs of disadvantaged or disabled children, teach or enhance social responsibility, and/or enhance academic achievement for children age 18 or younger. Application Deadline: July 1, 2009. For more information, go to: http://www.usairways.com/awa/content/aboutus/corporategiving/default.aspx AMERICAN LEGION CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION GRANTS The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation accepts proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects which meet one of the Foundation’s two basic purposes: To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth; and to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already possessed by well-established organizations, to the end that such information can be more adequately used by society. For more information, go to: http://www.legion.org/cwf/grantseekers/overview WAL-MART STATE GIVING PROGRAM Through the State Giving Program, the Wal-Mart Foundation seeks to support organizations with programs that align with their mission to create opportunities so people can live better. The State Giving Program strives to award grants that have a long-lasting, positive impact. Application Deadline: September 18, 2009. For more information, go to: http://walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8168.aspx?p=8979 SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING Organizations must demonstrate the capacity to provide a comprehensive array of services to pre-certified foreign national victims of human trafficking in coordination with the BJA-funded Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces in its region. Each organization selected for funding under this program will be expected to conduct training and public awareness activities (for project partners and other community members, as well as their own staff), and to undertake evaluation of activities funded under this program. Application Deadline: July 16, 2009 For more information, go to: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/pdftxt/FY09_Services_Victims_Human_Trafficking.pdf AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY GIVING PROGRAM Ameriprise provides grants to nonprofit organizations in communities across the United States where its employees, advisors, and retirees live and work. The company prefers to direct funding to specific projects that can demonstrate innovative approaches with measurable results or capacity building rather than general operating support. In the Meeting Basic Needs grant category, the company supports programs and services that help at-risk populations stabilize their lives and become more self-sufficient. Consideration will be given to programs that help provide food, shelter, and self sufficiency. Application Deadline: September 1, 2009 For more information, go to: http://www.ameriprise.com/about-ameriprise-financial/company-information/ameriprise-community-relations.asp June 2009: June 8-30 MANY invites you and your staff to attend a member meeting to hear the results of our member webcast and survey. With your input we learned of new or refined services MANY could offer our members to make life a little easer. June 8, 2009: 1pm - 3pm, Morgantown, WV; hosted by Children's Home Society of West Virginia August 2009: August 19 At the heart of any program are the staff. The time and cost invested in recruiting, interviewing, supervising, and evaluating staff is substantial, even though we seldom sit down and figure it out. Once we find good staff, it is essential that we keep them in order to reduce both the budgetary and human costs (the effects on youth and families) of high turnover and the loss of our best performers. This workshop focuses on the practical steps supervisors and managers can take to find and hire the right folks, those who fit with both your mission and your organizational culture and produce results, and the work it takes to keep them. For more information, go to: http://www.manynet.org/events/eventcalendar.aspx. August 26 At the heart of any program are the staff. The time and cost invested in recruiting, interviewing, supervising, and evaluating staff is substantial, even though we seldom sit down and figure it out. Once we find good staff, it is essential that we keep them in order to reduce both the budgetary and human costs (the effects on youth and families) of high turnover and the loss of our best performers. This workshop focuses on the practical steps supervisors and managers can take to find and hire the right folks, those who fit with both your mission and your organizational culture and produce results, and the work it takes to keep them. For more information, go to: http://www.manynet.org/events/eventcalendar.aspx. October 2009: October 19-20 This year the annual conference will take place at the gorgeous Bedford Springs Resort, in the mountains of central Pennsylvania during the height of fall foliage. Bedford Springs is a historic site with wide, sweeping porches with rocking chairs, luxurious dining rooms, cozy nooks to do puzzles or read, enormous spa, and onsite hiking trails, fire pit, and indoor-heated swimming pool. For more information, go to: http://www.manynet.org/knowledgecenter/news.aspx?newsitemid=29. Mid-Atlantic Network of Youth & Family Services
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