WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:02.500 Here we go 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:15.280 We're live good afternoon everyone let's just wait a minute or two let anyone else join in 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:22.800 those latecomers and thank you for coming today as we're going to talk the FY 2021 notice a funding 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:26.800 opportunity that's available with the targeted violence and terrorism prevention grant program 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:33.680 my name is Hector I'm a program analyst with the office of targeted violence and terrorism 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:39.920 prevention and I hope we're able to answer your questions at the end or through the presentation 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:46.880 and that this information helps break down the notice of funding opportunity it seems like 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:51.440 a long document but this hopefully in this presentation we can break break it down and 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:57.840 and ensure that all those a lot of answers can be found in that notice of funding opportunity 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:14.560 can you put it on presentation mode thank you all right 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:22.480 just wait a second or two and we'll get started all right 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:30.480 second two was about a minute I think we can get started now like I said anyone who just joined now 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:35.200 I'm program analyst with the office office of targeted violence and terrorism prevention and i 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:41.040 will be presenting today on the notice of funding opportunity and the grant program under the FY 21 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.880 Targeted Violence and Terrorism prevention grant program all right so let's get started let's go 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:58.720 to the next slide asthma so this year the the TVTP grant program investments in sustainable 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:03.360 and innovative prevention has doubled the 20 million and we continue to include 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:08.320 performance measurements and evaluations to identify best practices in prevention 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:14.480 the objectives of the grant program continue to align also with go three of the strategic 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.680 framework let's go to the next slide 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.840 please 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:28.640 so we're getting a little lag there I see but 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:36.800 so the grand priorities are like I said they all line both three of the strategic framework 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:41.840 and let's talk about them a bit more some of them align with last year's application 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:49.120 one of them is we're highlighting a bit more so we want to prevent domestic violent extremism 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.680 establish an enhanced local prevention framework with an emphasis on threat assessment and 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.960 management capabilities basically to strengthen societal resistance against the drivers of 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:04.880 violent extremism and ensure a broad awareness of the threat of targeted violence and terrorism 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:13.120 we also want to special especially emphasize a whole community approach in prevention to 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:17.360 give a few examples of what that means a grantee could develop and implement recidivism reduction 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:22.000 reduction programming to address individuals correct convicted of crimes related to terrorism 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.840 or targeted violence there could be community trainings and behavioral signs of violent 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:32.720 extremism like a system of referrals can be established or a community just to be 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:40.560 better equipped hospital or a county can better equip to to handle the threats that it may face 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:46.080 the grant also encourages innovative solutions for preventing targeted violence and terrorism 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:54.160 these are new strategies that organizations governments are coming up with to handle this 00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:59.040 issue and the last goes to challenge online violent mobilization narratives 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:07.440 such as violent violent white extremism ideology extremist propaganda online fake news and so on 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:15.040 and social and and the impact of social media on on vulnerable populations to to committing 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:25.920 targeted violence next slide please we have three project types that you can apply for and these can 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:32.400 all be found in appendix a and it breaks this down a little bit more so under promising practices 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:38.480 grantees can propose a project that can be proven to be effective in prevention and only on the 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:46.480 promising practices multiple projects may grant to have more than one project under one grant so 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:51.360 when you're applying make sure you can do you can have multiple applications as well but if you're 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:58.800 applying and you want one grant under the multiple projects make sure you highlight that as well 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.120 the innovation project is one of the most competitive competitive tracks but it allows 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.880 grantees to propose a new strategy in the prevention of targeted violence and terrorism 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:18.320 one of the cool things about innovation is that it allows you to you know have a little bit more 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:25.120 wiggle room in terms of the creativity and in coming up with new strategies and and theories to 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.480 promoting prevention and and and going against targeted violence and terrorism next slide please 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:39.840 the total amount of funds available this year except the devil so this we have 20 million funds 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:46.000 in funds to possibly give out to grantees grantees will have 24 months 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.720 two years under the period of performance to draw down funds and complete the goals of their project 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:57.120 and and they should be starting the the pop star date should be October 1st 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:05.840 2021 and the last day will be September 30th of 2023. next slide please 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:15.280 so this is a chart that kind of breaks down target funding please these are just ranges of 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:19.840 based on projects that we've seen on the past so please don't look at this as maximums or minimums 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:24.480 and we also understand that other factors such as the size of a project 00:06:25.280 --> 00:06:32.720 or you know history organization may influence this funding for example granting a small town 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:38.720 may need less funds than granted working on state level or you know a granting organization 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.640 or government that has a lot of the pieces already established may need less funds than 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:47.360 one that's you know starting from the ground up it depends all on the situation and 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:53.520 you have a chance in your application to just provide the justification if much more is needed 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:58.640 um out of these ranges as well and you can see an innovation track which is very competitive also 00:06:59.280 --> 00:07:09.440 has a high range right there but please feel free to you know specify your funds if they you know 00:07:09.440 --> 00:07:16.560 they leave the ranges if you need to specify why more or much less is requested and we have also 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.840 you know seen funds in the past go through evaluation and we have sent back you know 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:29.920 suggestions based on those funds to ensure that you know we can accommodate grantees that 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:35.360 we really want to have projects that we really really think will be successful next slide please 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:42.320 here are the eligible applicants applicants can be from you know I'm going to read them 00:07:42.320 --> 00:07:47.120 off we have local governments Indian tribal governments state governments nonprofits with 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:53.840 IRS status institutions higher education you know and and please you know we can any level 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:59.680 of government doesn't can be as high as federal as low as a county sheriff's sheriff's department 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:07.680 because we want diversity we want diversity in and not just the type of applicant or where they are 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.840 in the country and where they are in the united states but also you know this place takes place 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:20.240 in a rural area suburban area or city area so we encourage everyone to apply and also a lot of 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:26.720 entities or applicants fit under the nonprofit as well you know even if you know community 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.680 organizations religious institutions that fit under this nonprofits for 501 00:08:33.680 --> 00:08:38.800 are eligible to apply so because since we really want a whole community approach 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:46.240 we we may you know you can email us to see if you're eligible but a lot of times a lot 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.320 of people who don't think they're eligible actually are because of this whole community 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.520 approach that we are trying to highlight in this grant program next slide please 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:07.120 application period so you know we opened on march 24th 2020 of 20 this year and the application will 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:16.000 close up on the at 5 00 pm on august 31st first of 2021 and we anticipate uh to let everyone know 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:23.200 they're uh awarded by September 30th of 2021 of this year no later than that day next slide please 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:34.160 so under this grant program grantees will be there will be joint program 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:39.280 management which basically means there will be you'll be monitored by two 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:46.560 separate entities which is my office offices of targeted violence terrorism prevention and also 00:09:46.560 --> 00:09:51.840 being monitored on the financial side by the FEMA office or the federal emergency management agency 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:58.240 every project must have an implementation plan with goals that follow the smart 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:02.480 principle if you don't know the smart principle search it up on google and this just means you 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:09.760 know smart measurable achievable realistic and time based and this is where my office 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:14.800 the OVTP program analyst will evaluate project success using you know those implementation 00:10:14.800 --> 00:10:19.360 plans that you guys that the grantees created measuring those against quarterly reports 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.520 non-profit applicants are subject to a security review prior to being awarded 00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:32.400 each grantee is required to produce a needs assessment basically to ensure that all grant 00:10:32.400 --> 00:10:37.360 grants fill gaps and sustainability plan to ensure that all grant programs continue beyond the end 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:43.040 of performance so what is a needs assessment basically why and why we ask for it it's we 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:46.960 we would like to know what resources and connections applicants already have 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.960 to help achieve their goals and carry out activities and objectives under the project 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:57.280 it's also important you know to ensure that an opportunity is not duplicating work that another 00:10:57.280 --> 00:11:02.640 organization or government is doing in their community or area that's why we access this so 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:06.960 it's very important that you highlight this and and state this information in your application 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:12.960 another thing that's very important to you know for the the grantees that we're looking for 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:18.480 is sustainability is your sustainability plan we want to be able we want to know that you're able 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:24.560 to continue your project well after your your period of performance ends with us 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:28.080 and in our funds you know we stop funding you you're still able to carry out your 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:32.720 project and the goals under your project and still continue to promote the mission that 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:41.840 that this grant is is promoting such as preventing targeted violence and terrorism next slide please 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:50.400 this is the so evaluation I spoke some about it a little bit already but 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.320 we will bring begin by reviewing the needs assessment like I just mentioned before 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:00.480 the the program design implementation measure measurement plan making sure it's realistic smart 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:05.600 follow the smart principles we're going to look at the organization and key personnel understand the 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:12.800 history and the capabilities of running a gran a grant program and and carrying out the goals 00:12:12.800 --> 00:12:22.560 under their project but please don't don't feel scared that you know you've never managed a grant 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:26.800 you've never been a grantee or never had a grant you know before we actually promote that diversity 00:12:26.800 --> 00:12:33.520 so don't be turned down by that we're gonna look at the budget detail on this you know 00:12:33.520 --> 00:12:38.240 understand the funds and one send the narrative the importance of the of the project and why 00:12:39.280 --> 00:12:40.960 why are you running it and why are you doing it 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:48.800 FEMA will use databases such as sams.gov and FAPIS to review financial integrity of an applicant 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:54.400 and also then you know the key personnel and the organizations that the applicant will be working 00:12:54.400 --> 00:13:00.080 closely with to carry out their projects they will also do a basic security review this is 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.920 just to ensure that when I you know we're giving funds to people who are trustworthy and you know 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:12.560 don't have a his and we will look at the history before granting making a award to a grantee 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:24.960 next slide please so review and selection process this slide just kind of shows 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:32.160 where where the review begins and where it ends so all applicants are eligible and that all 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:36.800 applicants that are eligible and fully complete will be reviewed by subject matter experts in 00:13:36.800 --> 00:13:45.280 terrorism targeted violence prevention or a related subject after my office the TVTP office 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:51.440 will come convey a panel of the subject matter experts to review the top scoring applications 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:58.560 and then the director of OTVTP will coordinate with the FEMA assistant administrator of the 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:04.880 grant program directorate to conduct security reviews and provide recommendations to the DHS 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:11.440 under secretary for strategy policy and plans who ultimately decides the final award and makes that 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:22.800 determination next slide please monitoring again something where we're trying to highlight in these 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:28.560 and because we all do we the reason we do a lot of this monitoring and joint program management is to 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:35.920 better is to ensure that the success of a grantee more so rather than simply monitor them ufor the 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:44.400 purpose of ensuring compliance so gratitude will be monitored by you know like I said in in a OTVTP 00:14:44.400 --> 00:14:50.240 program analyst and FEMA financial information will be reviewed by FEMA and submitted submitted 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:56.640 in a system called nd grants however you know any any changes in key personnel budgets narratives 00:14:56.640 --> 00:15:02.320 must be approved beforehand and that information will go through the program analyst to be approved 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:09.280 training materials must be pre-reviewed so your program analyst will ask for the information 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:17.280 just to make sure it it aligns with you know the program you're saying you're promoting and and and 00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:23.280 also to ensure that you know the material whatever you're promoting is in compliance 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:31.120 grantees must also submit a completely timely quarterly reports this is you know going to be 00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:35.520 your implementation management plan will be looked at and your quarter reports ensure 00:15:35.520 --> 00:15:39.840 that you're on on track to meeting your goals and completing your activities 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:46.000 if there's you know any any need for this and corrective measures will be taken for 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:51.360 non-compliance so non-compliance you know you know lack of communication lack of completing 00:15:53.040 --> 00:15:58.560 quarterly reports or anything that your your program your grant program analysis is asking 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:04.480 for so communication is key as we encourage you the rest of diversity of applicants 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.680 we provide technical assistance that will help grantees complete quarterly 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:14.960 quarterly reports will help you provide community briefings we will will provide the training on how 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:20.640 to make an implementation and measurement plan and ensure that your plan follows the smart principle 00:16:20.640 --> 00:16:24.640 you know office of science technology also assists in this and they're already 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:29.440 we have a lot of experts in that in that field so this is why I said don't be worried some if 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:34.640 you've never had a grant or you've never you know made an implementation measurement plan 00:16:34.640 --> 00:16:39.280 we have the tools and we're going to provide the techno assistance to ensure a guarantee success 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.600 the TVTP field office we also have the the field office with our regional coordinators 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:52.800 who usually attend you know if there's a monthly sync or meeting or the regional coordinator can 00:16:52.800 --> 00:16:58.000 also meet with granted separately and you know these people are the region coordinators are 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:02.320 the general expertise and the experience in targeted violence terrorism serve to connect 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:08.160 grantees with other stakeholders or community leaders of prevention so you know make just 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:14.560 providing a network to ensure that grantees have the tools the information they need to to build 00:17:14.560 --> 00:17:19.680 something and make sure or model their project offer something else and and speak to people 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:26.720 who have success in this in in with the type of project that they're running next slide please 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.560 as I mentioned sustainability already I talked about this but this is just 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:37.680 it's very important to us that you're you're able to continue your project before the end 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:45.840 of a period of performance your your your project's sustainable next slide please 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:54.000 and again I mentioned I mentioned this again the measurement your implementation measurement plan 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:59.840 to follow the smart principle but we want to ensure that you know it's realistic we 00:17:59.840 --> 00:18:05.840 can look at it and say you know by quarter two or by two months you've you mentioned you were going 00:18:05.840 --> 00:18:15.920 to carry out a training for 30 law enforcement personnel and with a pre and post survey 90 said 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:24.160 that you know from the training they feel more confident presenting on topics such as targeted 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:31.440 violence terrorism or providing community briefing or even just you know such as these matters 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:36.080 results this is why measurement is important and being very specific next slide please 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:46.960 So this is where we get to the end of our presentation and we're able to take 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:52.880 any questions that you all may have um at the moment if you're still thinking of questions 00:18:52.880 --> 00:19:01.200 um you know you can also send them to our email at terrorism prevention at hq.dhs.gov we'll 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:09.840 put that in the chat so you all have it again that's terrorism prevention at hq.dhs.gov and 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:17.040 thank you for all for attending this presentation um another thing i want to highlight is that um 00:19:17.040 --> 00:19:22.640 we hopefully will be sending a recording of these presentations as well and we'll we'll try to 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:28.160 answer those emails as soon as possible um as well so have any questions we could take them right now 00:19:33.040 --> 00:19:38.240 good afternoon this is David O'Leary with the associate director of grants and innovation in the 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:43.280 office of target violence and terrorism prevention thank you hector for the presentation today 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:49.120 um there is one question um in here i was going to type the response but 00:19:49.120 --> 00:19:53.040 i'll answer it because it's a little bit more nuanced so the question is is 00:19:53.040 --> 00:19:59.440 will non-profits that have annual revenues less than 750 k be subject to an audit um 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:08.640 there there is a requirement for an audit if there are revenues federal revenues over seven hundred 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:14.960 fifty thousand dollars and that you can find that information in the notice of funding opportunity 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:21.600 um it does not prohibit an audit for less than that um but there's a requirement for one so 00:20:22.320 --> 00:20:28.320 um the government will only be looking for there to be an audit if if those federal revenues were 00:20:28.320 --> 00:20:34.560 over 750k but please refer to the notice of funding opportunity section on audits for that 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:42.400 all right the next question is considering this grant has been offered before how do we see 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:47.280 program sorry sorry let's just move over to the published category 00:20:47.280 --> 00:20:52.480 this grant has been offered before how do we see programs that were funded in previous years 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:58.960 as an example or model great question there's a couple places where you can see that you can see 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:06.160 our funded offer our funded projects that were funded last fiscal year fy20 projects 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:12.880 we have we have a brief description of each of those projects on on our website dhs.gov 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:20.400 tvtp grants um on that main website so just kind of expand the section that says fy2020 grants 00:21:21.120 --> 00:21:28.240 so you'll see what those awards are obviously um they just started performing last september or 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:34.320 last october so we don't have any write-ups of those projects yet we also funded a 00:21:34.320 --> 00:21:40.400 program in fy16 called the cve grant program countering violent extremism grant program 00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:49.840 and so in that program um we did publish a report that is in our grants resources site 00:21:49.840 --> 00:21:56.640 um and um you can download it there and in there we do talk about um six promising practices that 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:04.400 we identified from that program and we write up um at least two examples under each of the practices 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:11.760 from different past grantees so we do summarize those um in that report and i will see if i can um 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:25.840 get the link for that and post it in the chat here in a second directly to that report standby 00:22:31.280 --> 00:22:33.280 all right we've got a couple other questions so while I 00:22:33.280 --> 00:22:37.520 look for that link I'm going to start um answering some of these questions 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:44.160 is a question I think from the same folks same person um does this include 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:49.920 response capabilities or only prevention this program only covers uh prevention capabilities 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:57.280 there are programs like the homeland security grant program also administered by DHS FEMA 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:03.360 that do with response capabilities so this is a specific program for 00:23:03.360 --> 00:23:07.840 prevention 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:18.320 all right now the next question if a program has been used successfully to counter terrorism and 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:25.200 violent extremism in other countries but not in the us would this be considered that's a great 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:31.840 question um so we have our eight project types that you could apply for in the first two tracks 00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:38.800 the promising practice multiple project track and the promising practice single project track um and 00:23:38.800 --> 00:23:44.800 so we'd expect the proposals in those tracks to adhere closely to the requirements of those 00:23:44.800 --> 00:23:51.440 project types and you can find those in appendix b we also have the innovation project track 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:59.760 and that is a place where if a project doesn't quite fit into one of the project types that 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:06.480 we've identified as a promising practice in this program um you can apply for in the um in the 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:11.840 innovation track um and what we're looking for there is is some things that maybe haven't been 00:24:11.840 --> 00:24:17.680 implemented in the us before that would be a great example of of an innovation of an innovative idea 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:24.960 there's lots of things that are working in other countries and to apply them in the us uh maybe um 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:29.920 you know have its own challenges or opportunities um based on the differences in the legal system or 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:36.400 the cultural elements so that would be something that could be presented in the innovation track 00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:44.320 and citing citing the evidence and the examples the successes of other programs 00:24:44.320 --> 00:24:50.400 would be helpful as part of your logic model and as part of you know your your program 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:59.840 and describing your program design and citing it so yes that'd be a great way to do that 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:12.080 oops i just published two questions let me take them in the order i published them 00:25:12.800 --> 00:25:20.320 can you provide your definition of youth in this context can we engage younger children so we don't 00:25:20.320 --> 00:25:29.760 have a strict so i i think we use the the term youth um in a non-specific way certainly we use it 00:25:29.760 --> 00:25:38.080 to mean um it can mean youth and young adult can sometimes be the same category so that can mean 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:44.480 uh oftentimes we think of high school aged and college aged because we have seen 00:25:47.040 --> 00:25:50.160 a preponderance of individuals in that age group 00:25:51.040 --> 00:25:57.520 involved in targeted violence and terrorism in the US so that is a that is a group that that 00:25:57.520 --> 00:26:05.120 is that by the nature of their demographics has a a risk factor for violent extremism so we've heard 00:26:05.120 --> 00:26:13.440 a youth um uh we make a distinction with miners a lot and that has to do with data collection and 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:20.160 um parental consent for programming so um we do talk about um youth programming a lot and 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:24.320 there's a little bit more scrutiny so that we can protect the youth as a vulnerable population 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:35.280 um and so um so sometimes youth is is 12 to 17 sometimes it's different so um we have seen 00:26:35.280 --> 00:26:40.720 projects that have worked with children as young as i think seven in one of our funded projects 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:47.200 before um we've also seen a number of projects with high school and college age students so 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:56.240 a lot of them are relevant in the um in the pro in the um in the in the early prevention 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:02.640 activities when you're developing resilience when you're developing protective factors life skills 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.760 like conflict resolution and alternative dispute or alternative dispute resolution 00:27:09.520 --> 00:27:13.680 skills and tools we see those with with different youth categories so what we'd be looking for in 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:19.040 your proposal is to describe the youth as kind of your your target audience your target population 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:25.680 and then describe citing evidence what the risk factors are and how the programming will work 00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:32.560 with that with that population so um yeah if you have a follow-up question do please let us know 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:38.080 on that next question that was published is can an agency slash higher education 00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:45.120 have a sub that is a for-profit company assist i think the question is asking if 00:27:47.040 --> 00:27:58.160 if an applicant is a agency or an institution of higher I guess state local municipal tribal 00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:03.920 government agency or institute of higher education can they have a sub award that is to a for-profit 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:10.400 company and i believe they can have a sub-award chances are with most for-profit companies 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:20.320 the most for-profit companies are going to most likely fit the definition of a vendor 00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:29.200 uh versus a sub-awardee um and um and so in that by that token you'll need to follow the 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:36.000 rules under the federal regulations for um for procurement and in the notice of 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:40.640 funding opportunity there is a reference to the procurement standards required in the 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:46.160 in the notice of funding opportunity so you can find the um the link to the regulation there um 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:52.080 and so you just wanna you wanna read those and follow them closely if your plan is to have 00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:56.720 a for profit be a vendor or potentially a sub award on your project you wanna make sure you 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:05.040 comply with the requirements of competition um for procurement or documentation and compliance for 00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:12.080 sub-awards so but yes for-profits can be either sub-awards or or vendors just not a prime awardee 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.520 all right I'm going to publish the next question here 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.760 all right uh if part of the grant activities include activities that are 00:29:33.760 --> 00:29:40.320 designed to help a community heal from violence experience through damaging historic events 00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:47.120 from mainstream and government entities historic trauma would that be received so 00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:57.200 i um so i think the question here or the way i see it in terms of um it's going to depend on how the 00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:05.840 project is proposed and what the objectives are so um this program is to um is to do 00:30:05.840 --> 00:30:14.480 prevention and there are certainly ways in which communities affected by trauma or violence the 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:21.040 individuals in those communities may be more susceptible to additional violence either as the 00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:28.480 victims or the perpetrators um because violence we know perpetuates in a lot of in a lot of cases um 00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:35.120 so um you know i'd have to so keep in mind that it would have to meet the objectives of prevention 00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:41.280 so please do look at that we reference them in the very first few pages in the overview what the 00:30:41.280 --> 00:30:47.040 objectives of a local prevention framework are and then we describe them in more detail in appendix a 00:30:48.800 --> 00:30:54.240 and then our project types are aligned to those in appendix b are aligned to those six 00:30:54.240 --> 00:31:02.320 objectives so um make sure that what the project you're proposing meets one of those objectives 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:06.720 but i can see that the the the idea that immediately comes to mind 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:13.440 for me is the is the role of trauma being a risk factor for additional future violence i 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:16.400 i don't want to say that the mission of healing a community from violence 00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:22.800 where um there doesn't seem to be evidence that that's a risk factor is is a very important 00:31:22.800 --> 00:31:27.760 mission and great work in our community so i don't wanna i wanna downplay that work it's 00:31:27.760 --> 00:31:45.840 just not the main thrust of this but there could be a nexus to it so thank you for that question 00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:55.520 publish the next question if a proposal is close-ended for example ends after 24 00:31:55.520 --> 00:32:00.560 months will it be considered it would not be quote-unquote sustainable if close ended 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:06.880 so um i think that would depend on um 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:17.200 so certainly one area where we um uh so sustainability is one of the scored um categories 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:24.960 um and um i can i can imagine a category um so it's not the entirety it's not it's not an 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:32.720 eligibility requirement it's um it's a it's a goal of this program to support sustainable programs 00:32:33.760 --> 00:32:40.560 but when the way we apply that is when we look at the is when we score that category 00:32:41.360 --> 00:32:44.720 now when we go to score that category if if it's a project that 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:51.680 would have a just a a positive in the community but there aren't plans to sustain it 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:58.560 or there aren't plans to you know at least like you know warehouse it so it can be you know 00:32:58.560 --> 00:33:04.720 renewed at some other times there's different ways to score well in sustainability um and one 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:12.880 of those ways could be after um the project is completed um you know there doesn't require much 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:19.520 sustainment or you would only need to sustain it as much as that the tool is needed um so um 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:25.840 i can't give a a firm answer to that but um just know that like there are definitely some 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:31.120 some projects that might be that definitely would be considered and could score well on 00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:38.080 on the sustainability if it's if it's presented to us well um even if you know the project won't 00:33:38.080 --> 00:33:44.960 carry on um under the auspices of your program for example if it was if it was to test an idea 00:33:45.600 --> 00:33:54.800 that um you know created an off-the-shelf guide um you know towards is part of it 00:33:54.800 --> 00:34:00.320 towards setting up a threat assessment team those would be like kind of an innovation project and 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:08.080 it's something that now DHS owns and then we can we can use it um after the fact and you've created 00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:12.400 it through your through your grant award that's just one idea I've had since reading your question 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:17.200 so there are different ways you might consider doing that but it's not a it's not an eligibility 00:34:17.200 --> 00:34:24.800 requirement but um it is just something that has I think maybe 15 of the um of the score so 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:30.720 just keep that in mind and think about innovative ways that that we might want a project that 00:34:30.720 --> 00:34:35.760 isn't going to continue on afterwards and it won't won't deliver a sustained capability 00:34:38.240 --> 00:34:42.560 I guess sell us on it with all your proposals you're selling us on the ideas so 00:34:43.120 --> 00:34:47.840 um and your capabilities so sell us on it and it definitely uh could be considered 00:34:52.160 --> 00:34:56.800 Is there a limit to how much applicants can exceed the target funding amount for each category 00:34:57.680 --> 00:35:04.880 uh is the next question let me publish that question um so the there is 00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:11.520 the there is a maximum on the grant um if you look on um grants.gov it's two million 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:21.920 um per award um we we're we're not we haven't emphasized the maximum um because we um we are not 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:27.840 going to be taking a close look at projects that approach that without a significant justification 00:35:28.640 --> 00:35:37.760 so um and that's because we have a requirement to develop capabilities um uh we have a we have a 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:44.160 necessity a mission under this program to develop um as much capability as we can for the funds 00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:52.720 and even in a um even in a major metropolitan area you could it is possible to set up capabilities 00:35:53.600 --> 00:35:59.440 at or near the target funding amounts um so um the rule of thumb that we've included in 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:05.600 there is if your project exceeds the target funding amount by you know more than 50 percent 00:36:06.240 --> 00:36:13.520 um we need to have a really detailed um description of why that is and the costs involved 00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:20.960 to make sure that we can justify all those costs um and just know that like the larger the projects 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:29.120 you know get in cost the more capability we're looking for so um you know a very large state 00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:34.720 with a lot of diverse regions uh within the state different types of regions within the state you 00:36:34.720 --> 00:36:40.080 know could come in you know close to that close to the uh you know above the target funding 00:36:40.080 --> 00:36:44.640 uh but we'd like to make sure that that's you know capability that covers much of the state 00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:51.520 is you know has a good sustainability plan so um the closer they are to the target funding um the 00:36:51.520 --> 00:36:56.400 lower the bar for for evidence for the costs we're going to need because we have a sense of how much 00:36:58.240 --> 00:37:01.600 you know the cost or I'm sorry I shouldn't say the lower cost for evidence because you every 00:37:01.600 --> 00:37:05.200 project needs a detailed budget narrative to justify all the costs in their project 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:11.280 but the lower the justification for exceeding it um we'll need less detail on how much more 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:17.440 capability so uh please do keep that in mind when selecting um then that uh we are looking 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.080 for you know really good justification if you uh differ from those target funding amounts 00:37:29.600 --> 00:37:32.560 all right I'm going to publish the next question which is about 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:39.200 which is currently the last question um that we have received so um if you do have another 00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:43.840 question you'd like answered here um during the webinar please um get it into the queue 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:48.320 now we'll stay on for a couple extra minutes while people might be typing your questions 00:37:49.120 --> 00:37:56.480 um and then following that we'll close but we do have we did publish our email address in the 00:37:56.480 --> 00:38:01.920 q a if you'd like to send us additional questions uh where our goal is to respond 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:06.480 to those within two to three business days and we'll do our best to meet that time timeline 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:12.080 uh this question hiring contractors slash contract uh employees under this program 00:38:12.080 --> 00:38:18.320 is okay as long as succession uh is in place to find alternative funding whether 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:24.720 public or private sources uh yes that's correct um i would give an example um 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:33.040 much of the work we do um especially with threat assessment and management or developing frameworks 00:38:33.040 --> 00:38:37.600 or kind of determining roles and responsibility from a variety of people in the community 00:38:39.040 --> 00:38:43.440 could be volunteers at non-profits or paid employees and non-profits could be government 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:51.440 employees or um you know could even be you know health providers at for-profit clinics or for or 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:58.320 private into private providers that do that might charge against Medicare or insurance etc. you may 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:03.600 have all these individuals that have funding and sources of funding you know based on their 00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:09.920 organization you know essentially in perpetuity um and what might be needed to create a nice 00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:16.000 framework is to hire a contractor or a temporary employee or a reimbursable detailee or something 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:22.160 to come in and help stitch all those individuals work together and then um you might need somebody 00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:27.280 you might want to keep that person on on salary based on the demand of the position with the 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:32.720 different source of funding that would be a great way to score well in the sustainability category 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:39.200 or you might not need a full-time person there anymore so you know you can have a succession 00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:46.560 plan that isn't continuing to pay the employee but is you've got MOU's in place or memorandums of 00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:52.480 understanding or agreements in place that you'll have employees from three or four organizations 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:59.040 supporting it as a collateral duty so those are different ways to um to be sustainable 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:10.640 and if you've hired a contractor or a temporary employee all right so this is 00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:16.640 a question would any pilot projects be funded under the multi-project track um 00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:26.560 post that here um so I'm not entirely sure um this I'll take a stab at in a couple ways so 00:40:26.560 --> 00:40:32.160 pilot project could refer to something that might be good for the innovation project track where 00:40:32.160 --> 00:40:37.520 it's um there's evidence that suggests it would work but it hasn't been tested or hasn't been 00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:44.480 tested in the you know area where you're planning to implement it so in that case you would want 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:50.000 to submit it as a separate application in the innovation track we don't want to see 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:56.480 mixing between innovative ideas and the promising practices tracks because it's harder for us to 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:05.840 measure product projects against each other um in both in making the awards and then um 00:41:06.560 --> 00:41:12.000 and then tracking performance so we want to have really clear lines of performance 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:17.200 metrics for each of the projects and they're outlined in the notice of funding opportunity so 00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:22.640 um you know now sometimes the concept of a pilot project 00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:36.480 have more evaluation related to it so if that's the case and it's just something 00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:42.080 that fits under one of the eight project types in the multi-project track um then 00:41:42.080 --> 00:41:45.440 a pilot could fit under that but if you mean something that is a different type 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:51.280 of project that isn't one of the eight the recommendation is to submit those in two 00:41:51.280 --> 00:42:01.840 separate applications one in the innovation and one in the um promising practices tracks 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:13.760 all right and then the next question is about the needs assessment um and if there is a time frame 00:42:14.640 --> 00:42:21.440 so again um if I'm not answering this question uh feel free to send in a follow-up but uh i 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:25.440 could answer this from a couple different ways so obviously the time frame so that the needs 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:33.920 assessment is um uh is is due with the um with the application um so you'll complete the needs 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:42.160 assessment uh which is described the elements of which are described um in appendix c uh as well as 00:42:42.160 --> 00:42:49.680 um a little bit in the scoring criteria section uh in the body of the NOFO um so that's due apart 00:42:49.680 --> 00:42:54.480 when the application is due with the with in the program narrative in terms of like the 00:42:54.480 --> 00:43:00.800 time-bounded nature of the needs assessment it's got to be you know either current or coming up so 00:43:01.600 --> 00:43:08.240 um we want to know what's what's current or what can be planned um you know during the 00:43:08.240 --> 00:43:14.480 period of performance so it might be that you had a um you know youth drop-in center or a 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:21.680 youth crisis drop-in center in town um but that's been closed because of covid but you know once um 00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:25.200 you know the governor's lift certain restrictions it'll be back open again 00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:28.160 so yes you could include something like that in the needs assessment 00:43:28.720 --> 00:43:35.280 um we'd want to sense or like if something doesn't only operates in the summer it's a summer program 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:42.320 um then um you know include but it will open at some point during the period of performance then 00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:46.960 you would include that in the needs assessment so the idea behind the needs assessment is to say 00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:55.440 there are certain uh activities and there are certain um uh uh 00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:04.480 there are certain activities or certain capabilities that are are present in our community 00:44:05.120 --> 00:44:10.240 like we have we have uh we have a therapist that the town's used before 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:18.240 um to work with youth that are involved with law enforcement or youth that are involved with uh 00:44:18.240 --> 00:44:24.160 you know that have been assigned you know have had an incident in school so could we bring 00:44:24.160 --> 00:44:31.760 that person in um as part of our framework for a threat assessment team so knowing what's out 00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:36.560 there what's already being paid for what's already operating in your area is really important so that 00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:42.720 you don't duplicate any processes one it's not a good use of public resources or even privately 00:44:42.720 --> 00:44:48.640 donated philanthropic resources and it's not helpful if you know vulnerable people are 00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:52.480 searching for where to go and there's multiple places that get confused and then they might not 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:59.760 reach out at all so it's one to avoid duplication but also you know just understanding that like we 00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:04.400 don't need to recreate the wheel when we do this we can integrate it into the activities that we 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:09.200 currently do as part of you know our governments and local governments and our communities 00:45:13.120 --> 00:45:16.960 all right there's a question about the recording yes we've recorded these and we believe we'll be 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:23.280 posting um uh one of the recordings probably this one since it's had the most questions um to our 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:31.840 website uh again we're making that update to our website um in the next couple of business days 00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:40.800 all right and again I've published the last question in our cue we have another 15 minutes 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:46.160 or so to answer questions so please feel free to type them in there while i read this next question 00:45:46.160 --> 00:45:49.680 if a practice has been used in schools but not community settings could we 00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:56.400 propose to expand threat assessment and medical and law enforcement encounters 00:45:56.400 --> 00:46:00.560 yes so i think this would be a great this is something that we envision 00:46:00.560 --> 00:46:07.040 as part of a sustainable practice as part of a promising practice which is there are a lot of 00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:14.400 um there are a lot are a lot of threat assessment capabilities and i think there's also a lot of uh 00:46:15.040 --> 00:46:21.680 resilience capabilities in schools so you have the you have youth that have had that get certain 00:46:21.680 --> 00:46:27.200 programming for anger outbursts and things like that for resilience building uh you have certain 00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:33.760 programs uh hotlines in colorado there's a program called safe to tell that's been around as a result 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:39.680 of columbine um there are different ways to um you know so there's plenty of different 00:46:39.680 --> 00:46:43.680 projects in schools because of other school violent um violence incidents 00:46:43.680 --> 00:46:49.920 sandy hook a lot were set up than after the marjory stoneman douglas so these are um 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:55.360 we think these are useful there's actually an instance in virginia where there was one in 00:46:55.360 --> 00:47:03.680 universities set up capabilities set up after virginia the virginia tech um shooting so uh 00:47:03.680 --> 00:47:09.840 and they they the state has worked to envision about whether or not they can expand that 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:14.480 to other parts of the state not just the university system so i would love 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:21.040 to see these because they're generally a good sustainable practice um and you know 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.960 please please do propose those to us we'd love to see them 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:35.120 all right um there are no more questions in the queue um so um 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:43.680 please do send them in via email um if you have additional questions um and if not we really 00:47:43.680 --> 00:47:48.400 appreciate you joining uh the webinar today i want to thank uh Hector again for the presentation 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.840 and osma for assisting with the slides 00:47:53.920 --> 00:48:05.840 and for the 50 plus of you that joined today thank you so much and good luck with your applications