Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System

The summary for the Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, 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 as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Administration for Children and Families, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System: The purpose of this announcement is to fund, by awarding cooperative agreements, comprehensive 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.    Demonstrate the capacity to use this project as a transformative platform for improved system response to permanency, incorporating in changes at the policy and practice levels and embracing a philosophy of permanency beginning at the entry in the child welfare system; 4.    Evaluate the implementation of the comprehensive diligent recruitment programs to document processes and potential linkages between diligent recruitment and improved outcomes; and 5.    Develop identifiable sites that other States/locales seeking to implement improved diligent recruitment methods can look to for guidance, insight, and possible replication.