Strengthening Your RHY Proposals with Safe Place

To Strategies for Integrating Safe Place Into your RHY Proposal

RHY is VERY

Competitive

How You Use

Safe Place is

Critical to Your

Program

Explain the

Advantages that

best suit YOU

NEVER ASSUME

Write a Thorough Description ONCE: ◦ What SP is

◦ How your agency integrates SP into the BCP/SOP

◦ How Does Safe Place Enhance Your Overall Program (outreach, access, community, etc.)

Refer Back to the Description throughout the Proposal as Needed (providing the page #)

A national outreach, education and referral program, providing easily accessible public locations where children and teens are connected to immediate help and safety.

1. It is youth initiated

2. Trained responses.

3. Standard policies and procedures

4. Appropriate service options and referral

You can and

should refer to

the Safe Place

program in

several areas of

the proposal.

HOWEVER:

Remember this is

only ONE of many

components you

will be

addressing!

You are applying

for a Basic Center,

Transitional

Living or Street

Outreach Grant

You are NOT

selling Safe

Place!!

Safe Place is Primarily an Outreach Program

Safe Place is NOT your only Outreach

Use the Information You Gather to Construct Your

Thoughts About Strategies for Placement of the

Content Information (application of SP) within the

different Criteria.

Criteria 3 (see page 32 of the FOA) requires that the applicant “clearly describe the methods…to determine where Runaway, Homeless and Street Youth congregate in the proposed service area.”

Criteria 5 (pg. 33) requires that the applicant provides outcome that increases the youth’s sense of safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency AND increases the number of Permanent Connections.

3. Describe HOW the project model meets the needs of the community.

4. Provide a Staffing Plan (include SP Coord.)

7. Describe Coordination or Service Linkages

THINK: ALL MY COMMUNITY!

11. For Start-Ups one aspect is initiating outreach!

12. CLEARLY DESCRIBE HOW OUTREACH TO RHY OR STREET YOUTH WILL BE CONDUCTED!!

20. Describe guarantee access 24/7/365 ◦ THINK: HOW DOES SP ENHANCE THIS?

21. Street Based services (optional) requires ongoing training and on-street supervision.

It’s Unique

It’s Easy

It’s Fast It’s National

YOU ARE ON THE LIST

AS A SAFE PLACE

ORGANIZATION!!!!

4. HOW HAVE YOU USED SAFE PLACE TO ENHANCE THE EXPERTISE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF YOUR OVERALL ORGANIZATION IN WORKING WITH RHY?

(NOT JUST YOUR BCP!!)

5. HOW ARE MULTIPLE FUNDING STREAMS

FROM OTHER ACF GRANTS (i.e. TLP, SOP) UTILIZED TO IMPROVE THE CONTINUUM OF CARE?

6. …LIST FUNDING

SOURCES THAT

WILL SUPPORT THE

BCP.

Internal

MATCHING FUNDS

External

IN-KIND

(Printing,

Background

Checks, Volunteer

hours & expenses,

etc.)

9. CONFIDENTIALITY (always include SP volunteers: requirements, training, etc.)

THE BIG 4 REQUIRES DATA, DATA AND DATA!

PLUS METHODOLOGY AND FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION.

PLUS OUTCOMES! =

10. SAFETY, WELL-BEING, SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND

PERMANENT CONNECTIONS

1. VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

4. POSITION DESCRIPTION AND RESUME’

5. BACKGROUND CHECKS!!!! CRIMINAL HISTORY

CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY

COMPLIANCE WITH STATE, LOCAL AND OTHER LAWS

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

1. Line Item

2. Reasonable, Necessary and Essential Scope of Services (SP/Outreach/Vol Coord.) 3. Narrative Justification for costs How did you get that amount? 4. Any amount going to a partner?

Good Luck !!!! Sue Barton, MHR

barton.phillips and associates, inc.

[email protected]

www.nationalsafeplace.org