FY 2021 Children’s Bureau Discretionary Grant Awards

The following are the Children’s Bureau discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year (FY) 2021. When available, each award includes a link and description of the expired Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), a list of the grant recipients, and a link to their project abstracts.

HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CF-1903

The purpose of this NOFO was to support a project that will build evidence of the effectiveness of kinship navigator (KN) programs as well as conduct and evaluate a KN program that effectively assists kinship caregivers in learning about, finding, and using programs and services to meet the needs of the children and youth they are raising and their own needs.  The selected site will implement a rigorous local evaluation designed to demonstrate significant findings on the effectiveness of the KN program on one of the select target outcomes of child safety, child permanency, child or adult well-being, access to services, referral to services, and/or satisfaction with services. The first-year award amount is up to $600,000, with a project period up to 36 months.

The grant was awarded to:

HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CT-1914

The purpose of this NOFO was to support the implementation and evaluation of Family Support Through Primary Prevention sites for projects of national significance that demonstrate integrated, cross-sector approaches to developing comprehensive child and family well-being systems that are codesigned with families and communities. Sites will demonstrate a process for integrating public health and primary prevention approaches to improve overall community well-being consistent with the social and environmental determinants of health and to create the conditions necessary for all families to thrive. The first-year award amount is up to $750,000, with a project period up to 60 months.

Grants were awarded to the following:

HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CA-1913

The primary purpose of this NOFO was to support community-based efforts in tribal and migrant communities to prevent child abuse and neglect and to strengthen and support families. Funded projects will develop, operate, expand, enhance, and coordinate initiatives, programs, and activities to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect, consistent with the goals outlined by title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. This legislation specifies that 1 percent of the available funding from title II will be reserved to fund tribes, tribal organizations, and migrant programs. The first-year award amount is up to $205,705, with three grants awarded for a project period up to 60 months and five grants awarded for a project period up to 36 months.

Grants were awarded for a project period up to 60 months to the following:

Grants were awarded for a project period up to 36 months to the following:

HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CW-1921

The purpose of this NOFO was (1) to award cooperative agreements to implement and evaluate practices and interventions that provide an array of kinship preparation services and ongoing kinship supports and (2) to promote shared parenting to build trusting relationships between all out-of-home caregivers and parents of children and youth in foster care to ensure parents and families remain actively involved in normal child-rearing activities. These grants will secure strong partnerships needed for effective and efficient selection of practices and interventions, program implementation, and evaluation activities. The grants will also meaningfully engage parents, relatives, kin caregivers, youth, foster parents, and alumni of foster care throughout the project. The first-year award amount is up to $500,000, with a project period up to 60 months.

Grants were awarded to the following:

HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CO-1911

The purpose of this NOFO was to establish, by awarding a cooperative agreement, one national Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth (QIC/EY) that will conduct six to eight projects in partnership with public child welfare systems of the