Services to Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat

SAM.gov System Alert | Entity Validation Delays: Due to high demand, SAM.gov is experiencing a considerable delay in processing entity legal business name and address validation tickets. As needed, please start the process early to avoid interruptions in application submissions. You can find SAM resources related to this process here - https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0058422&sys_kb_id=7bb8810ddba05990060d5425f3961912&spa=1. Grants.gov Downtime |Grants.gov Going Offline: The Grants.gov system is being migrated to the cloud and will be unavailable to users for an extended period to allow for a successful transition. The Grants.gov Production System will be offline during the following period: Production System will go Offline Friday September 23, 2022 at 12:01 AM ET. Production System will go Online Thursday September 29, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET. If you are interested in this funding opportunity, you are strongly encouraged to download it and all associated attachments from Grants.gov as soon as possible so that they will be available to you during this period. For more information on what to expect, please refer to the following URL at https://grantsgovprod.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/what-to-expect-during-the-grants-gov-cloud-migration-and-extended-downtime-for-september-2022/ for details. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) invites eligible entities to submit competitive grant applications for the Fiscal Year 2022 new, one-time Services for Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat (SASIC) Program. The SASIC Program’s goals are to help newly arrived Afghans eligible under the Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations Act overcome severe, pervasive, and long-lasting combat-related trauma and to facilitate their achievement of sustained physical, social, emotional, and economic well-being. ORR intends to achieve these goals through increasing Afghan combat survivors’ access to and engagement with effective, holistic, strengths-based, and trauma-informed services. In support of this effort, through this grant program, ORR will also fund the establishment of a national network of culturally responsive providers specialized in meeting the needs of Afghan arrivals for such services. Under the SASIC Program, recipients will provide holistic and integrated services, including medical, psychological, and social work services either directly and/or through referrals to partners or affiliates, to Afghans who experienced combat-related trauma and arrived in the United States under Operation Allies Refuge/Operation Allies Welcome.