16.758: Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse and the Regional and Local Children's Advocacy Centers
Alternate Name: VOA
Overview
Program Number
16.758
Status
Active
Last Modified
Aug. 9, 2022
Date Posted
Aug. 9, 2022
Objective
Improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases and support the development of CACs and/or multi-disciplinary child abuse teams in local communities.
(1) To train criminal justice system professionals on innovative techniques for investigating, and prosecuting child abuse cases, including victims of child pornography; (2) to promote a multidisciplinary approach to coordinating the investigations and prosecution of child abuse cases and, thereby limiting the number of necessary pre-trial interviews for child victims, as well as to better assure the accuracy of each interview; (3) to increase the number of communities utilizing a Children’s Advocacy Center approach to the investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse cases; (4) to assist communities in developing child-focused programs designed to improve the resources available to children and families; (5) to provide support to non-offending family members; (6) to enhance coordination among community agencies, professionals, and provide medical support to health care and mental health care professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases; and (7) to improve the quality of child abuse prosecution by providing specialized training and technical assistance to prosecutors.
Child Advocacy Training: A competitive grant program to support child advocacy training in undergraduate programming and continuing education on multiple evidence-based methods for identifying and screening children for exposure to violence. The grants should support the training of future mandated reporters and child protection professionals and support efforts across the country to train child protection professionals in the field, including law enforcement officers, social workers, mental and medical health professionals, and prosecutors.
Type of Assistance
B - Cooperative Agreements
Applicant Eligibility
Please see program announcement for specific eligibility. May be limited to national organizations with broad membership among attorneys who prosecute criminal cases in state courts and have demonstrated experience in providing training and technical assistance to prosecutors. Or may be limited to nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations) and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.
Beneficiary Eligibility
contact program office for additional information
Additional Information
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