Application Scoring Guide: California Trauma Recovery Center Grant, Fiscal Year July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020
1: Cover Letter
Total Points: 3
The applicant’s cover letter clearly indicates the legal name of the organization, the primary and secondary contact including contact information for both, indicate the person with signature authority, and include the amount of funds requested.
2: Multi-Disciplinary Staff of Clinicians
Total Points: 6
The program narrative includes a description of the experience of each clinician and how each clinician type will be utilized within the TRC program.
2.1: Providing Mental Health Services
Total Points: 15
The program narrative provides a detailed description of the knowledge, experience and ability of the organization to provide trauma-focused, evidence-based mental health treatment. Additionally, the narrative details what type of clinician would be responsible for providing mental health treatment.
2.1.1: Integrated Trauma Recovery Services (ITRS) Model
Total Points: 6
The program narrative demonstrates an understanding of the core elements of the ITRS model, describe a plan to utilize clinicians to provide most services to clients, including clinical case management, and demonstrates how all services are coordinated by a single-point-of-contact for each client.
2.1.2: Evidence-Based Practices
Total Points: 3
The program narrative describes each evidence-based practice utilized by the applicant and how they benefit client outcomes.
2.2: Clinical Case Management and Coordination of Care
Total Points: 5
The program narrative provides a detailed description of how a single-point-of-contact coordinates/facilitates case management. The narrative includes a description of the process of assessing client needs and implementing care plans. The narrative also demonstrates an applicant’s knowledge and ability to coordinate care among medical and mental health providers, law enforcement, social services and other victim services providers.
2.3: Services to Family Members and Loved Ones of Homicide Victims
Total Points: 3
The program narrative provides a description of the applicant’s knowledge and ability to provide services to family members and loved ones of homicide victims, including the method and types of services provided.
2.4: Services to Underserved Populations
Total Points: 4
The program narrative should describe the applicant’s target population(s), including specific outreach plans and how services are tailored to specific underserved groups.
2.5: Services to Victims of a Wide Range of Crime
Total Points: 4
The program narrative describes how services will be provided to most, if not all, victims of the types of crimes listed in the notice of funds available, and includes specific outreach plans.
2.6: Geographic Area, Crime Rate and Number of Victims
Total Points: 4
The program narrative demonstrates the need for TRC services based on the applicant’s location and crime rate. The narrative also describes a gap in victim services that is or will be filled by the TRC.
2.7: Assist Victims with Applying for Crime Victim Compensation
Total Points: 4
The program narrative demonstrates an understanding of most, if not all of the benefits offered by CalVCB. The narrative describes a working relationship with the county’s local victim witness assistance center, a plan for assisting victims in applying for CalVCB benefits, and the ability to make referrals to other service providers as needed.
2.8: Community Outreach Events and Collaborative Activities
Total Points: 5
The program narrative demonstrates the knowledge and ability to reach underserved victims through community outreach events and collaborative activities with other victims services providers. The narrative also describes how these activities will be accomplished and who is responsible for conducting the outreach.
2.9: Facilitate Cooperation of Victims with Law Enforcement
Total Points: 3
The program narrative describes the ability to facilitate increased crime reporting and demonstrate a significant working relationship with local law enforcement.
2.10: Provide Training
Total Points: 4
The program narrative demonstrates a depth of understanding of the identification and effects of crime and trauma and how to deliver the information through training to law enforcement, community-based agencies and other health care providers.
3: Client Flowchart
Total Points: 2
The client flowchart is detailed and clear, depicting how a client flows through TRC services from referral source/intake to discharge.
3.1: Performance Measures Estimates Chart
Total Points: 2
The Performance Measures Estimates Chart is complete, clear and provides all of the information requested.
4: Time Task Plan
Total Points: 2
The Time Task Plan provides a schedule of TRC activities with goals and objectives that are clear, specific and well defined.
5: Budget
Total Points: 10
The budget worksheet shows costs that are allocated for each fiscal year of the grant period, depicted by each fiscal quarter. It clearly shows what is being requested and does not include costs deemed as ineligible in the notice of funds available.
5.1: Budget Narrative
Total Points: 10
The budget narrative describes each portion of the budget, including, but not limited to, each position to be funded and the types of operating expenses requested. The budget narrative illustrates how the activities of each staff member will be TRC related. The budget narrative also includes a complete list of the applicant’s other funding streams including the dollar amount and duration those funds will be received.
6: Letters of Support
Total Points: 5
The applicant provides no more than seven letters of support. The letters specifically pertain to the TRC project, are substantive in nature and explain the collaborative/cooperative agreement between the organizations. Letters are current, from agencies within the applicant’s service area, and are from a mix of medical and mental health providers, law enforcement agencies, county victim witness assistance centers, sexual assault crisis centers, domestic violence programs, other crime victim service providers or social services agencies.