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 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.

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

Federal Grant Title:	Adoption Opportunities: Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System
Federal Agency Name:	Administration for Children and Families
Grant Categories:	Income Security and Social Services
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CO-0046
Type of Funding:	Cooperative Agreement
CFDA Numbers:	93.652
CFDA Descriptions:	Adoption Opportunities
Current Application Deadline:	No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline:	May 29, 2008 See link to full announcement for de
Posted Date:	Mar 03, 2008
Creation Date:	Mar 03, 2008
Archive Date:	Jun 28, 2008
Total Program Funding:	$3,600,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$400,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	$0
Expected Number of Awards:	9
Cost Sharing or Matching:	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.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact: Heidi Staples
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