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Welcome to FACT’s Family Fridge!

Think of this newsletter as FACT’s family refrigerator! This is where you’ll find all the important news, upcoming dates, and highlights of the great work around Virginia.

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The FACT Board has allocated a total of $300,000 for Fiscal Year 2026 in ad hoc grant support for local government and non-profit organizations to improve the prevention, treatment, or public awareness of family violence in Virginia.

This funding is divided into two categories: training and organizational capacity support for up to $5000 per award, and service support for up to $10,000 per award.

Applications will be reviewed by the FACT Grants Committee and recommended for full Board consideration in two cycles: September 2025 and March 2026.

Applications for the September cycle are due August 29th, 2025.
Applications for the March cycle are due February 27th, 2026

Learn more about the new process and application at: http://www.fact.virginia.gov/ad-hoc-grants

Did you miss our Q&A session for this new opportunity? Check out the recording below!

Foundational State Plan for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Virginia: A Preliminary Framework for Collaboration

Last Fiscal Year, the FACT Child Abuse & Neglect Advisory Committee worked in partnership with stakeholders and field experts to create a state plan for the prevention of child sexual assault.

This plan is intended to be used as a preliminary, informative guide for policy makers and advocates to address child safety and wellbeing challenges through a state-based framework – representing the first step in a unified position on child sexual abuse prevention efforts across state partners.

Click here to read the Foundational State Plan

In order to expand these prevention efforts on the local level, FACT established a grant program in FY25. $10,000 grants were awarded to nine Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) across Virginia to support evidence informed and promising practices at the local level for the prevention of child sexual abuse.

We are excited to welcome the following appointees to the FACT Board of Trustees!

Nichele Carver

Tiffany Garner

Maria Salgado

Joseph Van Name

More information about our current trustees can be found on our website.

Amy Greear

With the end of the Fiscal Year, we unfortunately had to say goodbye to some of our Trustees as their appointments came to a end. Thank you to Ginny Powell, Tarina Keene, Beverly Crowder, Allison Lawrence, and Maureen Coffey for your years of service to FACT and the families of the Commonwealth. We wish you the best of luck on your new journeys ahead.

Pictured left to right: Ginny Powell, Maureen Coffey, Tarina Keene, Beverly Crowder. Not pictured: Allison Lawrence

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Curious about the impact FACT had over the past two years? Be on the look out for the release of our biennial report later this summer that will go in-depth on the families and children served through FACT funding across Virginia.

ICYMI: FACT released a new report on System Responses to Child Fatalities

Alarmingly, child deaths overall, and specifically those due to maltreatment, have been increasing both nationally and in Virginia for the last several years. FACT recognizes that thorough, well-informed system responses to these cases are society’s last and most solemn responsibility to our children and central to developing effective strategies to prevent further deaths.

After two years of research, FACT has released a report that consolidates information on the current efforts involved in Virginia around child fatality investigations, death case reviews, and analyzes comparable data on these cases. This report is the first of its kind and a call to action for improvements to the responses to one of the greatest tragedies that communities face: the death of children.

Additional resources have been added to our website to further engage with the topic of child fatalities, their investigations, and reviews.

You can show your support FACT while driving around town! Through our license plate program, we receive $15 each year for our Kids First license plates and share the revenue from the star, heart, and hand license plates with Virginia Department of Health’s Safe Kids Coalition.

Click here to learn more about our license plate program

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Subject: FACT Summer Family Fridge🌞

Welcome to FACT’s Family Fridge!

The FACT Board has allocated a total of $300,000 for Fiscal Year 2026 in ad hoc grant support for local government and non-profit organizations to improve the prevention, treatment, or public awareness of family violence in Virginia.

We are excited to welcome the following appointees to the FACT Board of Trustees!

ICYMI: FACT released a new report on System Responses to Child Fatalities