CBCAP Community Based Family Team Meeting

RFP Overview, FFY 2012

CBCAP

CBCAP is a federal grant, part of The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). Federal guidelines are fairly specific about use of funds. CBCAP funds must target families who have never been engaged in child welfare (primary or secondary prevention).

Primary prevention consists of activities that are targeted toward the community at large. These activities are meant to impact families prior to any allegations of abuse and neglect. Primary prevention services include public education activities, parent education classes that are open to anyone in the community, and family support programs. This type of activity is a focus of CBCAP programs.

Secondary prevention consists of activities targeted to families that have one or more risk factors including families with substance abuse, teen parents, parents of special need children, single parents, and low income families. Secondary prevention services include parent education classes targeted for high risk parents, respite care for parents of a child with a disability, or home visiting programs for new parents.CBCAP funds may be used for secondary prevention.

Tertiary prevention consists of activities targeted to families that have confirmed or unconfirmed child abuse and neglect reports. These families have already demonstrated the need for intervention, either with or without court supervision. These are families that qualify for services under child welfare programs and are not a focus of CBCAP programs.

Funds are directed to the Iowa Department of Human Services, who then subcontracts to Prevent Child Abuse Iowa to manage the funds and provide technical assistance and support to grantees.

Last year DHS also allocated funds to support and/or establish community based family team meetings (CBFTM’s). Family team meetings were recognized as a practice that helps families build a concrete support system and achieve desired goals. Community Based Family Team Meetings follow the existing family team meeting model, but are designed specifically to prevent abuse and neglect and therefore keep families from entering the child welfare system. Four sites were awarded $15,000 for CBTFM’s for the period of 10/1/10 to 9/30/12.

Funding Available

Two grants of $10,000 each will be awarded this year for the period of 10-1-2011 to 9-30-2012.

Use of Funds

Community based family team meetings have been identified to address the factors that threaten children’s safety, promote well being, and prevent child abuse. This funding may be used to establish community based family team meetings or enhance current services in local communities.

  • Grants are made to existing Community Partnerships for Protecting Children sites.
  • Community based family team meetings must occur before abuse occurs and before family involvement with the Department of Human Services.
  • Community based family team meetings must be conducted using the model outlined in the “Minimum Standards for Family Team Decision Making” guidebook (Attachment A in application instructions.)
  • CBFTM facilitators must be certified through the Department of Human Services and possess a valid facilitator number. Training information may be found on the CPPC website:
  • Grantees must use the PCA Iowa and DHS approved survey with each family participating in a team meeting. An initial survey is completed immediately following the initial team meeting and a follow up survey with the family is completed 6 months after the initial team meeting (Attachment B and C in the application instructions).

Programs and activities should be designed to achieve some or all of the following outcomes in parents and families, in alignment with the five Protective Factors:

  • improved family functioning, problem solving and communication
  • increased social support
  • connected to concrete supports
  • increased knowledge about child development and parenting
  • improved nurturing and attachment between parent and child

Acceptable uses of CBCAP funds may include staff salaries and benefits, staff training, contracted services, curriculum, and program materials

Community Based Family Team Meeting Application Review

This year the application is formatted as a fill-in form. Spaces should expand to accommodate your text. If you have any problems, please contact Helen Benker at PCA Iowa.

TIPS:

  • Read each question carefully, and answer the question that is asked. Be specific.
  • Be careful using abbreviations or acronyms. Spell it out the first time and use the shortened version after that. Example: “We will be partnering with Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC). DMACC will be assisting with . . . “
  • We appreciate clear and concise applications. Read the question carefully, and answer it concisely.
  • We included the Grant Review Worksheet with the application instructions. You can use it to do a self-assessment of your proposal.

Cover Page

If more than on Shared Decision-Making Team is involved, please include contact information and signatures from all chairpersons. If you have not identified a chairperson, please designate one contact person from each Shared Decision-Making Team (someone other than the site coordinator).

TIP: Print additional cover pages if needed to include multiple chairpersons.

Part I – Program Overview

In this section we want to get a concise picture of your proposed program.

  • Tell us how you determined that CBFTMs are needed in your community. Do they fit into the overall goals of your CPPC?
  • How will families come into the CBFTM process? Will you be recruiting from a specific population or referral source?
  • Tell us about your community partners in this project. What and how will they contribute?

Part II – Program Implementation

This funding is for one year, so your implementation plan is critical. Your plan should be detailed and your timeline reasonable. It is important to describe staff involved in the program and demonstrate that they are the appropriate personnel to implement the program.

Part III – Facilitator Information

If facilitators have not yet been identified, you should clearly describe your plan to do so.

Part IV – Outcome Measurement

Make sure your goals are appropriate to your program design, that outcomes appear reasonable, and your logic model is logical.

Part V – Budget

Clearly describe the intended use of funds and make sure the budget is reasonable for the proposed project. Be sure to check your calculations!

PCA Iowa Website

Navigating the website . . .

  • On the home page, look for the tan box at the top right corner, “Grantee Information.” Click on that box.
  • You will see the “Prevent Child Abuse Iowa Grantee Dashboard.” CBCAP information will be listed in the CBCAP box. To the right of the “Dashboard” under “Research and Data” you will find a variety of child abuse data including by county, type of abuse, and age of victim.
  • Needs assessment data from Iowa’s Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Federal Home Visiting Program (link listed in TA call summary posted on website).
  • FRIENDSNationalResourceCenter for CBCAP provides a wealth of information about CBCAP, evidence-based practice, and other resources for CBCAP programs (link listed in TA call summary on website).

I will be updating the CBCAP section on our website to include:

  • Summary of the technical assistance calls, including questions asked and responses.
  • Frequently Asked Questions – I’m going to give this a try as a way to share common questions from grantees (and our responses) in order to get the information out quickly and efficiently.
  • Best Practice examples – One of my goals for the coming year is to spread the word about the great things that grantees are doing. To start I’ll be sharing examples of proposal responses I found when I reviewed FFY 11 proposals.

If you have any other ideas for ways we could utilize the website, please let me know.

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