Child Welfare Grant Funding Opportunity
Title IV-E Reimbursement Program for Legal Services Notice of Funding Opportunity
Victim Services Grant Funding Opportunity
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA)
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)
American Recovery Act Family Violence Prevention and Services Act
Fillable versions of the application are available by request. Email your request to: dcfsgrants@dcfs.nv.gov
GMU CW Trainings
GMU VS Training
Victim Services Training Presentation Materials
Grants Management Unit
Child Welfare Unit
Notice of Funding Opportunity Schedule
Child Death Review (CDR)
Purpose: The purpose of this funding announcement is to support innovative programming that supports the activities of the Executive Committee to Review the Death of Children (Executive Committee). Activities funded by the Executive Committee funding include public awareness, education campaigns and training to prevent the death of children pursuant to NRS Chapter 432B.403 to 432B.4095.
There are five primary responsibilities of the Executive Committee, as outlined in NRS 432B.409:
- Create statewide protocols on the functioning of the Regional CDR teams; ensure these teams are functioning appropriately and oversee training and development of these teams as needed
- Create regulations and carry out the regulations outlined in NRS 432B.403-432B.4095
- Create Bylaws for this committee and operate within those Bylaws
- Create an annual Statewide report of child deaths in our state, including up to date statistics and policy change recommendations
- Oversee the Review of Death of Children Account
Child Death Review (CDR)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Beginning of March 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of April 2023 |
Notification Date: |
June 2023 |
Children's Justice Act (CJA)
Purpose: The Children's Justice Act (CJA) provides grants to States to improve the investigation, prosecution, and judicial handling of cases of child abuse and neglect, particularly child sexual abuse and exploitation, in a manner that limits additional trauma to the child victim. CJA grantees are responsible for implementing the requirements of the CJA grant program to reform state processes for responding to child abuse and neglect.
Children's Justice Act (CJA)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-January 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of February 2023 |
Notification Date: |
April 2023 |
Children's Trust Fund (CTF)
Purpose: The Children's Trust Fund (CTF) is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. It was established in 1985 by the State Legislature (NRS 432.131) and is administered by the Division of Child and Family Services Grant Management Unit (GMU).
The CTF is a special account that receives fees from Nevada birth and death certificates. To supplement the Fund, the GMU submits an annual application for federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) grant funds, established by Title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amendments of 1996 and most recently reauthorized by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010.
Children's Trust Fund (CTF)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-April 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of May 2023 |
Notification Date: |
Mid-June 2023 |
Community Based Child-Abuse (CBCAP)
Purpose: Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) programs, which are authorized as part of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), has a rich history of promoting efforts to support families and prevent child maltreatment. The law emphasizes support for community-based efforts to develop, operate, expand, enhance, and coordinate initiatives, programs, and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Community Based Child-Abuse (CBCAP)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-April 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of May 2023 |
Notification Date: |
Mid-June 2023 |
Educational and Training Vouchers (ETV) Program
Purpose: The ETV program provides monetary assistance to eligible youth who are enrolled in an accredited postsecondary institution of higher education. Title IV-E federal funding is designed to provide postsecondary educational and training vouchers to eligible youth who are in or age out of foster care or who have been adopted from foster care after turning 16 years old.
Educational and Training Vouchers (ETV) Program
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-April 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of May 2023 |
Notification Date: |
Mid-June 2023 |
Financial Assistance to Former Foster Youth (FAFFY)
Purpose: The Nevada Independent Living Program is designed to assist and prepare foster and former foster youth in making the transition from foster care to adulthood by providing opportunities to obtain life skills for self-sufficiency and independence. Nevada provides financial assistance to former foster youth through the passage of Assembly Bill 94, also known as the Financial Assistance to Former Foster Youth Program (FAFFY). Each of these programs provides a variety of services and may have special requirements.
Financial Assistance to Former Foster Youth (FAFFY)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-April 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of May 2023 |
Notification Date: |
Mid-June 2023 |
Chafee Foster Care Independent Living (CHAFEE)
Purpose: The John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood offers assistance to help current and former foster care youths to achieve self-sufficiency. Grants are offered to States and Tribes who submit a plan to assist youth in a wide variety of areas designed to support a successful transition to adulthood.
Activities and programs include, but are not limited to, help with education, employment, financial management, housing, emotional support and assured connections to caring adults for older youth in foster care. The program is intended to serve youth who are likely to remain in foster care until age 18, youth who, after attaining 16 years of age, have left foster care for kinship guardianship or adoption, and young adults ages 18-21 who have "aged out" of the foster care system.
Chafee Foster Care Independent Living (CHAFEE)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-April 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of May 2023 |
Notification Date: |
Mid-June 2023 |
Promoting Safe and Stable Families- Title IVB, subpart 2 (IVB-2)
Purpose: The purpose of the PSSF program is to promote flexibility in the development and expansion of a coordinated child and family services program that utilizes community-based agencies and ensures all children are raised in safe, loving families, by:
- Protecting and promoting the welfare of all children.
- Preventing the neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children.
- Supporting at-risk families through services which allow children, where appropriate, to remain safely with their families or return to their families in a timely manner.
- Promoting the safety, permanence, and well-being of children in foster care and adoptive families; and
- Providing training, professional development and support to ensure a well-qualified child welfare workforce.
The primary goals of PSSF are to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve the quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanency for children by reuniting them with their parents, by adoption or by another permanent living arrangement.
Promoting Safe and Stable Families- Title IVB, subpart 2 (IVB-2)
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-January 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of February 2023 |
Notification Date: |
April 2023 |
Title IV-E Reimbursement Program for Legal Services
Purpose: The Title IV-E Reimbursement Program for Legal Services ensures that parents, children and youth and child welfare agencies receive high quality legal representation at all stages of child welfare proceedings, and to maximize allowable Title IV-E administrative reimbursement for children in Title IV-E foster care and their parent(s) in foster care legal proceedings. Numerous studies and reports point to the importance of competent legal representation for parents and children in ensuring that salient information is conveyed to the court, parties' legal rights are protected and that the wishes of parties are effectively voiced.
Title IV-E Reimbursement Program for Legal Services
Performance Period: |
July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024 |
Posting Date: |
Mid-April 2023 |
Due Date: |
End of May 2023 |
Notification Date: |
Mid-June 2023 |
Child Welfare Service Programs
Adoption Incentive (AI)
The John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CHAFEE)
Child Abuse and Neglect (CANS)
Child Death Review (CDR)
Children's Justice Act (CJA)
Children's Trust Fund (CTF)
Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP)
Differential Response (DR)
Educational Training Voucher (ETV)
Financial Assistance to Former Foster Youth Program (FAFFY)
Promoting Safe and Stable Families- Title IVB, subpart 2 (IVB-2)
Title IV-E Legal Services
Victim Services Collaborative
It is the mission of the Nevada Victim Services Collaborative (VSC) to continuously improve access and delivery of services throughout Nevada for all victims and survivors of crime through strategic planning, communication, and resource sharing among the State agencies that fund victim services.
Nevada's VSC is a collaboration between the four state agencies that oversee victim service funding in Nevada: State of Nevada, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child and Family Services; State of Nevada Department of Public Safety; State of Nevada, Department of Administration, Grants Office; and State of Nevada Attorney General's Office.
To reduce the administrative burden of applying for multiple victim services grants across multiple state agencies, the Nevada Victim Services Collaborative has established a single timeline for grant opportunities for agencies providing victim services. The timeline is designed to assist community providers to plan for the grant application and notification process and provide information to victims, advocates and service providers about the available resources and current funding opportunities.
"Victim services providers work incredibly hard every day to help victims in crisis. We hope that establishing this grant timeline in advance is the first of many steps we take as a state to reduce the administrative burden on providers, so their efforts can remain focused on serving vulnerable Nevadans." Ross Armstrong, Administrator