National Subgrants Program

National Children's Alliance (NCA) is a not-for-profit membership organization that serves as the accrediting body for the nation's children's advocacy centers. Through this project, NCA will serve victims of all forms of child maltreatment and their families by offering targeted subgrants in various categories, including Program Development, Provision of Core Direct Children's Advocacy Center Services, Program Improvement/Meeting National Standards, Expanding Reach and Access to Children's Advocacy Center Services, Equipment and Technology, and Chapter Core Services. These subgrants will help extend children's advocacy center services to underserved areas, such as rural, Tribal, and remote locations. Additionally, funds will support existing children's advocacy centers in expanding services related to physical abuse, addressing children with problematic sexual behaviors, and implementing evidence-based treatments thus ensuring comprehensive care for children regardless of their location. Funding will maximize the reach of children's advocacy centers as well as enhance the quality of direct services provided by children's advocacy centers support implementation of a national funding strategy for Chapter Core Services, and continue to advance consistent, inclusive, evidence-supported practice across the field by strengthening the national standards of accreditation and addressing service inequities and gaps, ensuring consistent high-quality service delivery across the children's advocacy center network.