Tribal Adult Protective Services Demonstration

Project officer:
Kari Benson
202.401.4634
contactelderjustice@acl.hhs.gov

Grants management specialist:
Rasheed Williams
202.401.4634

This opportunity offers funding to improve the provision of tribal adult protective services (APS) by current Title VI Grant recipients.

The demonstration will assist tribes in:

• Identifying the prevalence of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elders in their communities
• Identifying the gaps in prevention of and response to abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Implementing activities to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Facilitating the development of multidisciplinary elder justice activities to prevent, respond to, and/or address abuse, neglect, and exploitation

Anticipated goals and objectives include but are not limited to:

• Expand and improve services to tribal elders who experience all cultural facets of abuse, neglect, and exploitation and facilitate the development of multidisciplinary elder justice activities to prevent, respond to or address abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Address the occurrence of elder abuse in tribal communities to determine the lack of culturally appropriate information and community educational materials on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Gather and distribute information on strengthening existing or new tribal APS codes which will address and detect elder maltreatment
• Collaborate with other entities for the purpose of specifying trends, challenges, and barriers and enhancing responses to elder abuse victims or cases
• Develop training modules to detect or prevent the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elders
• Engage and collaborate with at least one national resource center and/or aging network organization to gather information and resources focusing on the field of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation

Eligible applicants are limited to Native American Tribal organizations that are current Older Americans Act Title VI grantees.

Award ceiling: $200,000 per year
Award floor: $150,000 per year
Project period: 24 months
Estimated number of awards: 5
Estimated total program funding: $750,000

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.