DECAL announces Trauma Responsive Care Grants for Georgia communities

ATLANTA, GA – The Georgia Division of Early Care and Studying (DECAL) proclaims one other Trauma Responsive Care Grant funding cycle for community-based organizations throughout Georgia.

The grants of $10,000 every will allow native organizations to pilot or increase applications that enhance neighborhood understanding of how early childhood trauma can impression future studying and improvement of youngsters. The grants can even help communities in constructing efficient networks of leaders centered on figuring out and understanding the wants of youngsters of their communities who could have had antagonistic childhood experiences.

Chosen grantees can be anticipated to develop a cross-sector collaborative of native leaders, together with six to 10 neighborhood stakeholders from numerous organizations such because the Georgia Division of Public Well being (DPH), the Georgia Division of Household and Youngsters Companies (DFCS), native regulation enforcement, Georgia Household Connection Collaboratives, Georgia’s Pre-Okay applications, Head Begin applications, native youngster care applications, native college methods, native Neighborhood Service Boards (CSBs), and Resilient Georgia Regional Grantee Coalitions. Every collaborative will take part in coaching to assist a collective understanding of how early childhood trauma can impression kids’s future studying and improvement. Moreover, grantee organizations and their companions can be anticipated to develop a strategic plan to reply to the wants of youngsters experiencing trauma for the beginning to five inhabitants. Grantees additionally can be anticipated to disseminate native assets and supplies associated to trauma-focused methods and interventions to households, childcare suppliers, colleges, and different service suppliers.

That is the second yr that DECAL has made these alternatives accessible to communities throughout Georgia. Funding for the grants was made doable by the $11.2 million Preschool Growth Renewal Grant that Georgia acquired in January 2020 from the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies and the U.S. Division of Training.

“We stay up for using this federal funding to complement our ongoing efforts to extend entry for Georgia’s youngest learners and their caregivers to those necessary assets,” mentioned DECAL Commissioner Amy M. Jacobs. “By means of these grants, we are going to assist communities in growing holistic methods to enhance youngster well-being and psychological well being.”

The grant time period for the upcoming funding cycle runs from Aug. 15, 2022 till Aug. 14, 2023.

The 2022 Trauma Responsive Care Grant utility is posted on the DECAL web site at https://decal.smapply.us/prog/trauma-responsive_care_grants/. Questions associated to the applying must be directed to communityimpactgrants@decal.ga.gov. Functions should be submitted by June 15, 2022.

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