Grant Proposal

 

Abstract

Dallas children’s advocacy center in non-profitable organization located in 5351 Samuel Blvd, Dallas, TX 75228, United States of America. We have over 70 centers of varying size and population in which children from all background, ethnicity and gender are absorbed. In total, Dallas children’s advocacy center has over 15000 children in the 70+ centers. (Rancher et al, 2019: 73).This is a children advocacy center where children comes together, and we offer them quality services such as protection against all forms of child abuse and mistreatment in the outside world, law enforcement, we offer them lawyers, prosecutors and medical health professionals who take care of them whenever they are sick. It recruits all children in need who are below the age of eighteen years. We do provide faster response and cognitive measures to all victims. Our main objective is restoring hope for these children and make sure we take the perpetrators to face the law. We make a child friendly environment so as to accomplish our needs of investigating, help children heal wounds of mistreatment and hold offenders accountable of their cruel actions.

The project has over the years teaching her children and as we speak, some of our children are now our lawyers and doctors. We want to make sure that at the end of next year, we have built five more centers   because the already available centers are congested which is threat during this period of covid-19. Since the government is trying all means to defeat this pandemic and at the same time trying to reduce the number of child mistreat cases, we appeal for this grant since us Dallas Children advocacy center are trying to do exactly what the government is trying to achieve (Herbert, Walsh, & Bromfield, 2018: 85). For us to accomplish our mission of building five new advocacy centers, we need a minimum of $150000 which will be distributed to the five centers. We are grateful for any assistance that will be accorded to us.

Problem Statement

Since the start of covid-19, Dallas Children Advocacy Center has had a lot of challenges. Usually the organization build two centers each year but since the end of 2019, it has been difficult to manage the same. The budget that was set aside to be used in 2019 was utilized to fight the pandemic. We came up with the in centers renovations and improvement such as making new desks for social distance and coming up with new boarding sections to enforce the same (Herbert, Walsh, & Bromfield, 2018: 54). Since the mission is to give these children  hope and making sure all their needs are met, it is good to first meet their core need; health. According to US government spokesperson, the number of covid-19 cases are increasing daily and they are likely to go on a long term. We must therefore make sure the children are protected against this deadly pandemic (Patil, 2019: 45). For now, we are still using the budget meant for building new centers to renovate the already existing ones in terms of boarding sections, coming up with sanitization areas and many other things.

Experts have warned us that the congesting environment is one of the major agent of covid-19. They further advised us to make sure no more than five children sleep in one cube (Patil, 2019: 45). Our cubes are accommodating ten children as per now. This is another reason why we have decided to build more cubes. This problem, of congestion in hostel rooms can be well solved by building new centers. We cannot add further cubes to the existing centers because even the space left is very minimal. In one of the centers, we used the playing ground to build 100 more cubes due to inadequate space left. Not dealing with this challenge we put these children in very high risks of contacting this deadly disease and as we all know that this disease is very dangerous considering these are children, their immune system is not very strong than those over sixteen years (Rancher et al, 2019: 39). Since we have already came up with places that are suiting our centers, once we receive the grant, we will proceed direct to building these centers. We have our sustainability plans, there are very many organizations that we have contract with that do provide us with our basic needs.

Goals and objectives.

The mission of Dallas Children Advocacy is improving lives of those children who were once abused in Dallas and any other neighboring areas. It also provide a national leadership skill on child abuse issues. It also coordinates with department of criminal investigation to, make sure all the culprits are held accountable. Having said that we do improve lives of abused children, it is good to come up with the new centers to reduce chances of contacting covid-19. This is one of the core values of improving lives. We improve lives by improving the health standards of the children. Another way is by buying hospital equipment that will enable our doctors to manage these children without any fear that they can get covid-19. We should buy them protective gears, masks and those reagents for testing covid-19. This is goal number one of improving lives. If we improve lives of our doctors, we improve lives of our children. According to the research done by our experts.

The cost of protective gears is estimated to be $3000 and the cubs that we are planning to add in the remaining 40 centers is $20000 (Shuman, 2019: 36). These two and all those minor expenses we are going to use the budget of 2020-2021 which was meant for additional centers and use it in that purpose which we plan to accomplish within the first seven months after successfully receiving the grant. All children aged 3years to 7years will be taken to certain centers and the others taken to different centers. Our centers will be based on age brackets (Shuman, 2019: 66). This makes easier because some children needs special attention therefore we are going to know which needs this and that and which ones do not need. A survey that was conducted by our digital and marketing team showed that 80 percent of children in our centers are proposing the initiative of separating them in terms of age groups. 87 percent of their parents are advocating for the same. We therefore plan to initiate this in the beginning of next year. Another objective is reaching out to people and get all those children whose rights are violated so as to help them.

Program Design

The objective of separating the children in terms of age brackets will be accomplished by building more centers. Though we can accomplish this without building more centers, it will not have solved the other problem of congestion (Shuman, 2019: 74). Since currently the number of children is fixed and know, the issue of transferring means will not increase the number of children nor reduce the number of centers therefore, they will actually fit well. This is possible but through creating new centers we could solve two problems at once. Reducing congestion and grouping the children centers in term of age groups. Before we combat on building these new centers, Surveys will be done to establish which land is good and non-risk to children centers (Shuman, 2019: 66).

Research will be carried out to establish the extent to which grouping students will have effect to them both positive and negative. Secondary data will be read to know everything concerning covid-19 and how we are going to protect our children from this disease. The management will also do a number of experiments to establish if the grouping will be effective (Patil, 2019: 45). Dallas children advocacy center will hire researchers to investigate whether the cases that are in the court are taking the right course. We are going to reach out to all people in the city and villages, we engage them, we try to know those children whose rights were violated, take them and give them hope in our centers. We are going to work hand in hand with the department of criminal investigation department to make sure all these culprits are brought in to account. Since we do need quality of results we are planning to engage government officials and researchers to help us find the extent and exact results.

Evaluation Plan

The Dallas children advocacy center will be evaluated quarterly to evaluate the progress and success of the previous meetings and plans (Patil, 2019: 33). This will enable us understand the challenges, big gains and areas that we need to work more on. It will assess the impact of the previous plans in the children in our centers, the children’s parents and the local community at large in response to the government initiative of improving the living standards of all children who are facing social injustice and living in a violence free society. One method we are going to use in evaluation is the use of modern technology, online evaluation.

We are going to supervise these events using the CCTV cameras that are going to be built in all of our centers (Smith, 2017:45). The building sites will also have some to monitor the ongoing projects. We are also going to input people in these sites that wills supervise the construction of the five centers. Weekly reports will be sent to the main servers for weekly evaluation. All progress will be with the corresponding goals, targets and aligned protocols.  Evaluation will consists of both summative and formative measure of performance of the day to day activities.

Sustainability and Supplementary materials

Because this is a non-profitable organization, we have come up with the means in which in the case that the grant has come to an end, we can afford to take care of ourselves. One of the means is that we have started poultry farming whereby we do rear chickens mainly for sale (Rancher et al, 2019: 91). We have large farm where we intend to cultivate some of the common basic crops in the area. We are going to use the produce for consumption and at the same time for sale.  This will create money for our needs. Since we are not planning to hire new workers nor planning to increase any expense, the cost expenditure for next year will remain the same (Smith, 2017:18). This will reduce the chances of requesting another grant in future. We have never approached any other organization for a grant (Rancher et al, 2019: 73).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Herbert, J. L., Walsh, W., & Bromfield, L. (2018). A national survey of characteristics of child advocacy centers in the United States: Do the flagship models match those in broader practice?. Child abuse & neglect, 76, 583-595. Retrieved: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213417303666

Patil, S. G. (2019). How to plan and write a budget for research grant proposal?. Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine, 10(2), 139-142. Retrieved: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975947617301328

Rancher, C., Jouriles, E. N., Johnson, E., Cook, K., & McDonald, R. (2019). Self-blame for interparental conflict among female adolescents who have been sexually abused. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(8), 982. Retrieved: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-22217-001

Shuman, K. M. (2019). Grant Proposal Preparation Readiness: A Glimpse at the Education Level of Higher Education Faculty. Journal of Research Administration, 50(1), 89-107. Retrieved:  https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1213259

Smith, D. W. (2017). Grant Proposal. Unpublished manuscript. Retrieved: http://www.science.earthjay.com/instruction/HSU/2015_fall/GEOL_553/research_proposal/students/GEOL_553_grant_proposal_smith.pdf