This is a Modification to the Services for Survivors of Torture Program:  Assistance to Torture Survivors Through Direct Services Program Announcement, HHS-2009-ACF-ORR-ZT-0050, published to the ACF Grant Opportunities webpage on March 11, 2009.  The application procedures are hereby modified.

Summary:

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is interested in awarding up to 25 grants for direct services to persons who have been tortured. Allowable activities include physical, psychological, social and legal services which are described under Section I. Funding Opportunity Description/Services for Torture Survivors of this announcement. Applicants may propose all or a combination of these services. If the applicant does not propose to provide all of the allowable services directly, the application should describe how they will ensure that clients can access the other services if needed. Partnerships may be formed with other community service providers in order to provide torture survivors with access to the full complement of allowable services. Training activities may also be conducted for community service providers who have access to or work with torture survivors.

Applicants are encouraged to design projects that incorporate collaboration with health care, mental health, social service and legal aid organizations as well as refugee and immigrant service providers in the community to increase their capacity for service provision to torture survivors.  

The purpose of the modification is to notify applicants of the increased estimated total program funding available due to the increased appropriation for the program in FY 09. It is also to ensure that applicants are aware that the increased appropriation may not continue into subsequent budget years and that future continuation grants may be sharply reduced.

Modification to the published announcement:

Please delete the following under Section II. Award Information of this Funding Opportunity.

Estimated Total Program Funding:   $8,700,000

Please replace the deleted language under Section II. Award Information of this funding opportunity with the following:

Estimated Total Program Funding:  $9,755,000

Please add to the current language under Section II. Award Information (following “Awards under this announcement are subject to the availability of funds”) the following:

Funding levels for subsequent budget periods may be reduced from the
initial funding level.

All information in this modification is accurate and replaces information specified in the 3/11/09  Program Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT AVAILABILITY:

To access this Program Announcement please go to the ACF Grant Opportunities webpage at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/index.html or to http://www.Grants.gov.

For further information, please contact (Holly Herrera) at (202-401-5541) or (holly.herrera@acf.hhs.gov).

Posted on April 9, 2009