Disaster Assistance Projects

This category is not for unsolicited proposals. Provides funding that has been designated by Congressionally appropriated authorization, generally for a specified project, or to provide unique or limited scope funding for certain disaster assistance Projects identified by Congress or a DHS program office. Program funds support the National Preparedness Goal of enhancing core capabilities in the areas of disaster response and recovery. One such disaster project is the Disaster Case Management (DCM) Program, which is a disaster-related federal award. DCM supports the Recovery core capability and mission area as defined in the National Preparedness Goal. The objective of DCM is to assist individuals and households through the recovery process by connecting survivors with local resources to meet their disaster-caused unmet needs. A disaster-caused unmet need is any un-resourced item, support, or assistance that has been assessed and verified as necessary for a survivor to recover from disaster. This may include but is not limited to: food, clothing, shelter, first aid, emotional and spiritual care, household items, temporary housing, home repair, or rebuilding.

State (includes the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories), local government (includes state-designated Indian tribes), public or private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), public or private profit institution/organization, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments. Funds are restricted to non-federal entities, e.g., state, local government, private, public, profit or nonprofit organization, Indian tribal government.

Funding is restricted to nonfederal entities providing case management services to individuals and families impacted by a major disaster declared under the Stafford Act with Individual Assistance authorized. See IAPPG 1.1., at p. 188. The need for DCM must exceed the capacity of the SLTT government.

An application (SF-424, budget, program or project narrative and assurances) or plan must be submitted that outlines the implementation of the project and expenditure of funds pursuant to section 426 of the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C. 5189d and the Individual Assistance Program and Policy Guide 1.1 .

Applications or plans are reviewed by DHS program and administrative staff, concerns negotiated with the applicant and award processed.

The range of approval time depends on the type of project to be funded.