Grants

The Dibble Institute is pleased to offer our full support as you pursue grant funding that includes youth relationship skills education!  Our experienced and nationally renowned teachers, authors and staff are ready to help you plan strong programs and prepare successful applications with our best practices youth curricula.  We offer:

        • Best practices youth healthy relationship skill and marriage education curricula
        • Analysis and guidance about what information to include in your applications
        • Research studies documenting the efficacies of our programs
        • Evaluation instruments for our programs
        • Letters of Support
        • Consultations with authors for program implementation assistance
        • Training for staff, teachers and parents
        • Training to assist in implementing programs
        • Technical support and brainstorming of grant ideas

For questions about our materials and how best to use them in your grant plans, please email Joyce Huff, Director of Outreach, at Joyce@dibbleinstitute.org.

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OFFICE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance Program(CFDA 16.589)
Deadline: February 18, 2010
http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/open-solicitations.htm

OVW welcomes applications that propose innovative solutions to achieving this goal.

Prevention and Education
Prevention and education activities proposed for children, youth and teens should focus specifically on efforts related to child sexual abuse and/or dating violence. Broad-scoped education and prevention curricula for elementary, middle or high school students such as “bullying” or “character building” educational programs are not allowed under the FY2010 Rural Program.

(Kay: This opportunity looks to me like a way to partner with a dating violence group to deliver healthy relationship skills and sexual abuse/dating violence avoidance to children and teens.)

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OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS, DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Funds for Family Planning Services Grants.
Deadline: March 1, 2010
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/grants/index.html

Eligible states: New York, Puerto Rico, Central Pennsylvania, Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho

Acceptable activities:

• Expanding access to a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and related preventive health services that include natural family planning methods, infertility services, and services for adolescents, including adolescent abstinence counseling.
  
• Counseling techniques that encourage family participation in healthcare and reproductive decision-making of adolescents, and teach resistance skills for adolescents to avoid exploitation and/or sexual coercion.

(Kay: Perhaps an opportunity to partner with a family planning agency to deliver healthy relationship and sexual coercion resistance skills to teens.)

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OFFICE OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH, DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Federal Funding for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Grant RFP has not yet been released.
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/federalfunding/default.aspx

Significant funding for evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs has now passed Congress and been signed into law. One hundred million will soon be available for competitive grants to a wide range of public and private organizations for evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.

The teen pregnancy prevention initiative provides $75 million for replicating programs that have been shown through rigorous evaluation to have positive effects on teens’ behavior, and $25 million for research and demonstration on promising programs. The provision also includes $10 million for technical assistance, training, and other supportive activities to assist the newly-established U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health in effectively running the program, and an additional $4.5 million for program evaluation.

(Kay: An important opportunity to utilize existing, rigorously evaluated relationship skills programs and to test promising new programs. Sign up for more info on the Campaign’s website above. As more info is released, I will let you know how relationship skills programs fit into the mix.)