15PJDP22GK03062JJVO

The Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital – San Diego (Chadwick Center) will work in cooperative agreement with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to manage the Western Regional Children's Advocacy Center (WRCAC). In that capacity, Chadwick Center will collaborate with partners funded through the Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCAA), including the agencies operating the other Regional Children's Advocacy Centers (RCACs), National Native Children's Trauma Center, National Children's Advocacy Center, Zero Abuse Project, National Children's Alliance (NCA), and the NCA state chapters to deliver training and technical assistance (TTA) and implement collaborative projects to serve multidisciplinary team (MDT) professionals, Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs), and chapter leaders and staff in the Western states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming).

The mission of WRCAC is to reduce the prevalence and adverse impact of child maltreatment by ensuring all children have access to a high-quality, multidisciplinary response to abuse that is coordinated, evidence-based, and trauma-informed.

Through this award, Chadwick Center will support a staff team of training specialists, state chapter liaisons, and training and communications coordinators to implement a range of TTA strategies to advance the following program goals for FY22:

Multi-disciplinary professionals will receive relevant, high-quality TTA to meet or exceed NCA accreditation standards for professional development (with a focus on TTA directed to victim advocates and MDT facilitators and resiliency of MDT professionals).

Child abuse victims in the Western region will have access to an accredited CAC with a skilled, coordinated MDT and comprehensive, evidence-informed services to support justice and healing (with a TTA focus on strengthening MDTS and professional development of MDT leaders).

Multi-disciplinary professionals, CACs, and state chapter organizations serving rural and frontier communities will ensure delivery of accessible, quality, evidence-informed, mental health responses to trauma through increased use of telemental health (TMH) (with a focus on assessing readiness for, building, and supporting statewide TMH networks).

Chapter organizations will provide essential state-level leadership, TTA, and coordination among its members to improve outcomes for child abuse victims and families (with a focus on TTA directed toward building chapter organizational and TTA capacity, executive leadership, and peer networking).

Agencies funded through VOCAA will share information and coordinate strategies to advance the national response to child abuse (with a focus on implementing a five-year national plan and a coordinated cross-regional plan for TTA delivery).

Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS FOUR REGIONAL CENTERS - ONE SITUATED WITHIN EACH OF FOUR DESIGNATED U.S. CENSUS REGIONS- TO PROVIDE STRATEGIC COORDINATED TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WITHIN AND ACROSS THE REGIONS TO MEMBERS OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS, PROGRAMS, AND LOCAL AND STATE ORGANIZATIONS TO IMPROVE THE INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND THE PROVISION OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER SERVICES TO CHILD VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

16.758 - Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse and the Regional and Local Children's Advocacy Centers

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) [DOJ - OJP]

San Diego, California 92123 United States

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OJJDP FY 2022 Victims of Child Abuse Regional Children's Advocacy Centers Program (O-OJJDP-2022-171201)

Termination This cooperative agreement was reported on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) partial or complete termation list as of its last report October 2025. See All
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/30/23 to 09/30/26 and the total obligations have increased 276% from $1,250,000 to $4,700,000.