The Office of Policy and Management (OPM) announces the release of a Request For Applications (RFA) for the Connecticut Keep Kids Safe Grant Program (CKKSGP).  The purpose of the CKKSGP is to provide grants to agencies, institutions or persons to conduct research, provide public education, establish outreach programs and enhance public awareness of safety issues with regard to children.

CKKSGP funds may be used to coordinate, develop and implement new innovative community programs or expand existing programs that prevent unintentional injuries among children under the age of 18 and to support public education and outreach activities to increase public awareness of the prevention of unintentional injuries.  Programs and services may include, but are not limited to, the following strategies:  bicycle helmet campaigns; child occupant protection programs; child drowning prevention programs; scald burn and residential fire detection programs; research programs; outreach programs; and public awareness and educational programs. 

Grant applicants may request funding up to $45,835 for the period of September 2012 – June 2013. The minimum funding request is $5,000.  Final selection of applications is at the discretion of the Secretary of OPM.

Grant applications must be submitted before the deadline to the Official Contact for this solicitation:  Maryann Boord, Office of Policy and Management, 450 Capitol Avenue, MS#53 BUD, Hartford, Connecticut 06106-1379.

The RFA, amendments to the RFA, and other information associated with this RFA are available upon request from the Official Contact, or on the Internet at the following locations:

(1)   State Contracting Portal at http://das.ct.gov/cr1.aspx?page=12

(2)   OPM’s RFP web page at https://www.ct.gov/opm/rfp

Deadline for submission of applications is 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.