Adoption Opportunities: Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System

The summary for the Adoption Opportunities: Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.

	Federal Grant Title:	Adoption Opportunities: Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System
	CFDA Number:	93.652
	CFDA Description:	Adoption Opportunities
	Federal Agency Name:	Administration for Children and Families
	Category of Funding Activity:	Income Security and Social Services
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CO-0046
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Mar 03, 2008
	Creation Date:	Mar 03, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 29, 2008 See link to full announcement for details. IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications submitted electronically via Grants.gov must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m., eastern time, on the due date referenced above.
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Jun 28, 2008
	Expected Number of Awards:	9
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$3,600,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$400,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$0
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant

Special district governments County governments State governments

Additional Information on Eligibility

Collaborative efforts are acceptable, but applications must identify a primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement. Collaborative efforts must include the pertinent State, Tribal, or local child welfare agency(s) as full and active participants in the project. Collaborations may include private agencies, faith-based organizations, non-profit organizations, institutions of higher learning, family finding organizations, organizations with relevant experience to one or more of the required strategies, and any combination of the eligible applicants listed. The public child welfare agency must identify and have jurisdiction over the population to be served. To be eligible to apply as part of collaboration, institutions of higher education must have an accredited social work education program, or other accredited bachelor or graduate level programs leading to a degree relevant to work in the child welfare field. It is critical that, as a group, these projects address the specific issues and challenges associated with implementation in urban and non-urban sites, as well as county-driven systems and State-driven systems. This is especially true in States with very large urban areas that require a great deal of focus in the State's CFSR PIP. Therefore, CB reserves the right to award funding to one urban project and one non-urban project, as well as one project in a State-driven system and one project in a county-driven system, depending upon the applications received. Foreign entities are not eligible under this announcement.

Grant Description

The purpose of this program announcement is to fund, by awarding cooperative agreements, multi-faceted diligent recruitment programs for a range of resource families for children in foster care, including kinship, foster, concurrent and adoptive families. Funded projects will: 1. Implement comprehensive multi-faceted diligent recruitment programs for resource families, including kinship, foster, concurrent and adoptive families for children and youth served by public child welfare agencies as a means of improving permanency outcomes; 2. Integrate the diligent recruitment program with other agency programs including foster care case planning and permanency planning processes to facilitate active concurrent planning activities; 3. Evaluate the implementation of the comprehensive diligent recruitment programs to document processes and potential linkages between diligent recruitment and improved outcomes; and 4. Develop identifiable sites that other States/locales seeking to implement improved diligent recruitment methods can look to for guidance, insight, and possible replication.

Link to Full Grant Announcement

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CO-0046.html http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CO-0046.html

Grant Announcement Contact

Heidi Staples
Heidi.Staples@acf.hhs.gov
Heidi.Staples@acf.hhs.gov Heidi Staples

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