DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET  
STATE CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT PREVENTION BOARD  
CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND GRANT PROGRAM  
(By authority conferred on the state child abuse and neglect prevention board by  
section 11 of Act No. 250 of the Public Acts of 1982, being S722.611 of the  
Michigan Compiled Laws)  
R 722.751 Definitions.  
Rule 1. (1) As used in these rules:  
(a) "Act" means Act No. 250 of the Public Acts of 1982, being S722.601 et seq. of  
the Michigan Compiled Laws.  
(b) "Children's trust fund board" means the state child abuse and neglect  
prevention board as defined in section 2(e) of the act.  
(c) "Council" means a local council which has applied to the children's trust fund  
board for, and has received, designation status based on the children's trust fund  
board's review of the council's compliance with section 10 of the act.  
(d) "Demonstration project" is a direct service administered or controlled by  
a council for a limited period of time to demonstrate some aspect of prevention or to  
initiate and provide a needed direct service.  
(e) "Direct service" means help or benefit provided to children or their families on  
a person-to-person basis.  
(f) "Facilitation of interagency projects" means  
the  
coordination  
and  
encouragement of a project in which the direct service component is not done under  
the control or direction of the council or its employees.  
(g) "Prevention services" refers to a continuum of primary, secondary, and  
tertiary efforts aimed at the prevention of child abuse. In this continuum, primary  
prevention refers to programs which are believed to be universally beneficial in  
curbing child abuse aimed at the general population; secondary prevention refers to  
programs or services aimed at high risk populations which may be more prone to  
abuse or neglect of children; tertiary prevention refers to programs or services  
aimed at limiting the amount of damage, morbidity, or further abuse once child  
abuse or neglect has occurred in a given family or population.  
(2) A term defined in the act has the same meaning when used in these rules.  
History: 1986 AACS.  
R 722.752 Council responsibilities.  
Rule 2. A council shall do all of the following:  
(a) Facilitate collaborative community prevention programs and services in a  
specific geographical area. The prevention program shall utilize trained volunteers  
and existing community resources where practicable.  
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(b) Provide the children's trust fund board with review and comments on grant  
applicants from its geographic area.  
(c) Participate, when invited by the children's trust fund board, in monitoring  
funded projects in relationship to the process component of the evaluation.  
(d) Run or facilitate a collaborative community effort in the provision of local  
public education and professional training programs.  
(e) Foster fund-raising to the children's trust fund and councils.  
(f) Provide input to the children's trust fund board on the establishment of  
priorities for prevention services development.  
(g) Provide assistance to prevention projects in its area in developing match and  
ongoing funding.  
History: 1986 AACS.  
R 722.753 Children's trust fund board responsibilities.  
Rule 3. The children's trust fund board shall do all of the following:  
(a) Inform the councils of the children's trust fund board's involvement in their local  
communities, including an invitation to participate in any site visits.  
(b) Forward copies of grants awarded in their areas to the councils.  
(c) Inform the councils of significant changes in grants which the councils  
have approved.  
(d) Provide technical assistance to councils or their designees.  
(e) Fund councils to help underwrite costs associated with being a local council.  
History: 1986 AACS.  
R 722.754 Council funding.  
Rule 4. (1) The children's trust fund board shall annually establish the proportion  
and amount of the children's trust fund which shall be available for allocation to  
councils and shall establish the formula by which these funds will be distributed.  
(2) All councils shall receive a yearly allotment of funds, contingent on the  
submittal of acceptable annual prevention plans. The allotment may vary in amount  
from council to council.  
(3) The match for formula funding to local councils may be matched 100% with  
in-kind services as listed in R 722.752.  
History: 1986 AACS.  
R 722.755 Grants for prevention services.  
Rule 5. (1) The children's trust fund board shall biennially develop a state plan  
which establishes a rationale and priorities for the allocation of grants for prevention  
services.  
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(2) The children's trust fund board shall establish a procedure for accepting and  
reviewing applications which includes the review and comment of local projects by the  
councils.  
(3) In making funding determinations, the children's trust fund board shall take  
into consideration the recommendations of the councils, together with such factors  
as geographic distribution, prevention service priorities, and other factors the  
children's trust fund board deems appropriate. These conditions shall be published in  
an annual request for proposals.  
(4) Councils may submit applications for demonstration projects  
or  
the  
facilitation of interagency projects within the stated priorities. Such applications shall  
be reviewed on a competitive basis through the project grant award process. It is not  
mandatory that such grants be awarded. If a grant is awarded, the plans for transfer to  
another agency shall be a condition of any demonstration grant award.  
(5) In determining the length of funding from the children's trust fund beyond 1  
year, the children's trust fund board shall take into consideration such factors as  
performance, length of time required to complete an evaluation, efforts of the  
project sponsor and council to obtain other funding, and other factors the children's  
trust fund board deems appropriate and publishes prior to issuing grants.  
(6) The children's trust fund board may designate grants for any of the following  
purposes:  
(a) As seed money to pay for the establishment, but not ongoing operation,  
of a prevention service.  
(b) As a subsidy for the basic underwriting of service costs.  
(c) For declining funding, moving from 100% the first year to 0% over a period of  
time specified in advance by the children's trust fund board.  
(7) Any applicant rejected for funding may contact the executive director of  
the children's trust fund, who shall give the children's trust fund board's reasoning for  
not awarding a grant. In addition, the applicant may submit to the director specific  
reasons, in writing, why it should be funded. The director shall then present this  
statement to the chairperson of the children's trust fund board. The chairperson  
shall present the written statement to a specially appointed review committee.The  
review committee shall consist of the chairperson of the children's trust fund board, 1  
children's trust fund board member who did not serve on the committee that reviewed  
the original application, the chairperson of the committee that did review the  
initial application, and the executive director. The chairperson shall present the  
findings to the children's trust fund board as a whole for its final decision on action to  
be taken. The applicant shall then be notified, in writing, of the children's trust  
fund board's final decision.  
History: 1986 AACS.  
R 722.756 Board meetings; purpose; open meetings.  
Rule 6. (1) The purpose of a children's trust fund board meeting is to conduct the  
business of the children's trust fund, allowing and encouraging public input.  
(2) The business which the children's trust fund board performs shall be conducted  
at a public meeting of the children's trust fund board held in compliance with Act No.  
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267 of the Public Acts of 1976, as amended, being S15.261 et seq. of the Michigan  
Compiled Laws. Public notice of the time, date, and place of the meeting shall be given  
in the manner required by Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, as amended.  
History: 1986 AACS.  
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