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##   Head Start/Early Head Start Recipient -- Communities in the state of Indiana

10/12/2023

12/14/2023

This forecast has been modified to update the Estimated Post Date and Estimated Application Due Date.The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start (OHS) will solicit applications from public or private non-profit organizations, including community-based and faith-based organizations, or for-profit organizations that wish to compete for funds to provide Head Start and/or Early Head Start services to eligible children and families. Funding is available in multiple communities with defined service areas within Indiana. The number of available forecasted service areas are projections, and may be updated prior to the posting of the notice of funding opportunity. Interested applicants should visit the website noted in the “Link to Additional Information” to view the detailed list of available service areas, their corresponding funding levels and for posting updates. Applicants may email the OHS Operations Center at OHSgrants@koniag-gs.com for additional information.

349363

93.600

##   Head Start/Early Head Start Grantee -- Communities in the state of Indiana

07/22/2021

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The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start will solicit applications from public or private non-profit organizations, including community-based and faith-based organizations, or for-profit organizations that wish to compete for funds to provide Head Start and/or Early Head Start services to eligible children and families. Funding is available in one individually defined service area within the state of Indiana. Interested applicants should visit the website noted in the “Link to Additional Information” to view the list of available service areas and their corresponding funding levels in this state. Applicants may email the OHS Operations Center at OHSgrants@koniag-gs.com for additional information.

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93.600

##   Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center

08/26/2021

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The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) issues this Forecast to announce available funding for eligible applicants to submit applications for the Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center grant. The grant recipient will be responsible for establishing a national technical assistance, training, and research center to increase safe access to child support, paternity, and parenting time services for victims of domestic violence. The SAVES Center will conduct research to establish baseline data on victims’ needs and barriers to accessing child support services, gather information on promising practices for safe access to child support and parenting time, and build the capacity of state and tribal child support agencies to integrate comprehensive domestic violence safety procedures into child support program services. Additionally, it will develop and refine training materials and practice guides for child support case managers and legal staff, test and evaluate impacts of domestic violence safety procedures on victim access to child support and parenting time services, and develop and disseminate model domestic violence policies for child support agencies. It will accomplish this by leading cross-system collaborations with assistance agencies, the courts, legal services providers, and domestic violence service providers and coalitions. The grant project should identify national, regional, state, and tribal domestic violence experts who will partner with the applicant in developing and disseminating technical assistance and training resources to child support agency staff, court staff, and community based domestic violence program staff. Grantees are expected to engage a research partner or partners to: conduct primary data collection on incidence of DV with child support program participants, identify barriers to safe access to child support and parenting time services for victims, and assess model domestic violence procedures implemented by state and tribal child support agencies. The SAVES Center will provide training, technical assistance, and research services to OCSE funded SAVES implementation grantee sites (see companion Forecast), to additional State and Tribal Title IV-D child support agencies, to Title IV-D Judicial officers, and to national, state, tribal, and local domestic violence service providers.

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##   Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Demonstration

08/26/2021

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The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) issues this forecast to announce available funding for eligible applicants to submit applications to the Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) demonstration program. SAVES will implement comprehensive domestic violence safety policies, procedures, and outreach activities to enhance safety for victims of domestic violence in the child support program. Additionally, SAVES will increase access to child support services for parents not currently receiving child support due to safety concerns. SAVES grantees will develop, test, and implement model practices for safe access to child support and parenting time services. State and tribal child support agencies selected as implementation sites will receive technical assistance, training, and research support from the SAVES Center grantee (see companion forecast HHS-2022-ACF-OCSE-FD-0018) in addition to participating in peer to peer technical assistance and learning opportunities. Grant projects will include public/victim education and outreach strategies, staff and partner training, development of responsive good cause protections for victims accessing public benefits with child support cooperation requirements, implementation of comprehensive domestic violence expert informed case processing policies and protocols for victims and perpetrators, and establishment and assessment of specialized domestic violence triage teams. State and tribal child support agencies applying for this funding will be expected to engage with public assistance agencies, courts, and state and local domestic violence service providers to develop and implement a cross-systems, coordinated response to victims’ need for economic supports and access to public safety net program resources.

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##   Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Demonstration Program

09/03/2021

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The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Demonstration Program. The VHT-NC Demonstration Program’s goal is to directly fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services to Native American (i.e., American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and/or Pacific Islanders) adults and minors who have experienced a severe form of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, through the provision of direct services, assistance, and referrals. Under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program the following activities are required: 1) provision of comprehensive, culturally and linguistically responsive, case management to Native Americans who have experienced sex and labor trafficking; 2) outreach efforts to increase identification of Native Americans who have experienced sex and labor trafficking; and 3) training to service providers and community partners. The VHT-NC Demonstration Program is informed by a whole family approach that focuses equally and intentionally on services and opportunities for clients and their immediate family members living within their households. OTIP is encouraging the establishment of community partnerships, meaningful engagement of Native American individuals who have experienced trafficking, and the hiring of qualified professionals that reflect the communities being served in all project implementation strategies under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program. Under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program, there is a 12-month project implementation period for the prime recipient to facilitate optional partnerships, on-board new staff, and develop service protocols specific to Native Americans who have experienced human trafficking. However, clients must be served during the 12-month project implementation period. Under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program, the prime recipient must provide a statutorily mandated 25 percent match (cash or in-kind).

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##   Trafficking Victim Assistance Program - ACF Regions 5, 6, 7, and 8

09/09/2021

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The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) – Regions 5, 6, 7, and 8. TVAP’s goal is to directly fund time-limited comprehensive case management services on a per capita basis to foreign national adult confirmed and potential victims of a severe form of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, seeking the Health and Human Services (HHS) certification so they can re-establish their ability to live independently. A foreign national includes individuals who are not U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, parolees, refugees, or asylees. Under TVAP, the provision of trauma-informed, person-centered, culturally responsive, and linguistically appropriate, comprehensive case management services is required. Services may be provided to qualified persons either directly and/or through a network of providers, that provide direct services and community referrals. TVAP is informed by a whole family approach that focuses equally and intentionally on services and opportunities for clients and their immediate family members living within their households. OTIP is encouraging the meaningful engagement of foreign national adult survivors of trafficking, and the hiring of qualified professionals that reflect the communities being served in all project implementation strategies under TVAP. OTIP plans to award three cooperative agreements to provide regional coverage to achieve nationwide assistance. Each award will support services in specific ACF regions. The regional areas are as follows: a) ACF regions 1, 2, 3, and 4; b) ACF regions 5, 6, 7, and 8; and c) ACF regions 9 and 10. This is one of three Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs). This NOFO is for TVAP coverage for the central states in ACF regions 5, 6, 7, and 8. This includes the following states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. The other two NOFOs are: HHS-2022-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-ZV-0039, Trafficking Victim Assistance Program - ACF Regions 1, 2, 3, and 4; and HHS-2022-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-ZV-0041, Trafficking Victim Assistance Program - ACF Regions 9 and 10.

335620

93.598

##   AdoptUSKids

09/16/2021

Not Provided

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to establish, by awarding a cooperative agreement, a multi-faceted national AdoptUSKids project designed to assist states, tribes, and territories in the recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive parents for children in public foster care. The AdoptUSKids project will encompass the following components: (1) National Adoption Internet Photolisting Service: Maintain and manage the National Adoption Internet Photolisting Website (www.AdoptUSKids.org); coordinate with all states, tribes, and territories for the listing of their eligible children/youth while incorporating best practices and quality improvement standards in photolisting; (2) National Adoption Recruitment Campaign: Plan, develop and implement CB’s multimedia National Adoption Recruitment Campaign and a corresponding Recruitment Response Support Initiative intended to reach and inspire adult Americans to adopt by offering important, accurate information about the foster care system and the adoption process. Develop a donated public service campaign strategy and annually create and produce multi-media products including public service announcements for television, radio, print and social media, building on the body of work of the National Adoption Campaign launched in 2004. This project will also provide support to states, tribes, and territories to provide increased access to new recruitment media and their ability to respond in a timely and customer-friendly manner; (3) National Adoption and Foster Care Information Exchange System: Maintain a National Adoption and Foster Care Information Exchange System that raises public awareness and assists states, tribes, and territories in recruiting foster and adoptive parents for children in foster care. This will include conducting National Adoption Month activities to raise public awareness and coordinating with organizations sponsoring National Foster Care Month activities. The design of this system will incorporate the provision of a 24-hour, nationwide, toll-free communications network designed to respond to the inquiries from prospective foster and adoptive parents as well as the general public regarding the foster and adoption process. These services will be provided in English and Spanish and will be accessible to other limited English-speaking and non-English speaking callers and those who may require other communication accommodations; (4) Adoptive and Foster Family Support Activities: Develop and disseminate information, strategies, and effective or evidence-based models for the implementation of adoptive and foster family support activities for states, tribes, and territories. Develop and disseminate information on innovative approaches for creating communities of practice, peer-to-peer technical assistance, and leadership training to enhance and support adoptive and foster family support groups; (5) Capacity Building Services for Diligent Recruitment and Retention of Foster/Adoptive Families: Provide limited constituency services and universal product development and dissemination to states, tribes, and territories across the nation to assist in building agency capacity for the diligent recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive families, primarily focused on models of best practices related to photolisting, recruitment media, customer service and adoptive and foster family support activities; (6) Minority Professional Leadership Development in the Adoption Field: Provide for the planning, development, and implementation of a program to promote professional leadership development of minorities in the adoption field.

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##   Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants

09/22/2021

Not Provided

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to solicit applications for Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants. These four-year cooperative agreements will support partnerships between Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies in states, territories, or tribes and institutions with demonstrated research capacity to develop rigorous investigations of child care subsidy policies and practices. Sponsored projects will inform local and federal understanding about the efficacy of child care subsidy policies and practices to increase low-income families’ access to quality child care. To ensure that the funded work is timely and relevant to the current child care context, projects are expected to be collaborative from start to finish. The CCDF Lead Agency and their research partners must work together throughout all phases of the project and are encouraged to engage other local and state child care stakeholders, as appropriate. This iteration of the Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants Program is expected to prioritize research projects exploring CCDF agencies’ policies, practices and funding initiatives that may support more equitable access to child care. Sponsored projects will be expected to participate in a consortium that will meet and communicate regularly to identify opportunities for coordination, such as common data elements and research methods, and to develop collective expertise and resources for the field. The consortium’s collaboration will support research capacity and learning within individual projects and across recipients. For further information about prior awards made for Child Care Policy Research Partnership Grants, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/child-care-policy-research-partner....

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93.575

##   Head Start/Early Head Start Recipient -- Communities in the state of Indiana

11/19/2021

02/02/2022

The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start will solicit applications from public or private non-profit organizations, including community-based and faith-based organizations, or for-profit organizations that wish to compete for funds to provide Head Start and/or Early Head Start services to eligible children and families. Funding is available in one individually defined service area within the state of Indiana. Interested applicants should visit the website noted in the “Link to Additional Information” to view the list of available service areas and their corresponding funding levels in this state. Applicants may email the OHS Operations Center at OHSgrants@koniag-gs.com for additional information.

336595

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##   Trafficking Victim Assistance Program

04/27/2022

06/27/2022

The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP). TVAP’s goal is to directly fund time-limited comprehensive case management services to foreign national adult confirmed and potential victims of a severe form of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, who are seeking or have received Health and Human Services (HHS) certification. TVAP must also establish local regional presence to coordinate project activities and direct services. A foreign national includes individuals who are not United States (U.S.) citizens or lawful permanent residents (LPR). Case management services must be provided to qualified persons directly by the prime recipient and may also be provided through a network of subcontracted providers, that provide direct services and community referrals. Historically, TVAP served both foreign national minor and adult victims of trafficking; however, in this model TVAP has been redesigned to only serve foreign national adult victims of trafficking using the previous per capita model, as well as a newly-developed regional approach to fund regionally located direct service providers. Foreign national minors will be served through a new program, Aspire: Child and Youth Trafficking Assistance Demonstration Program (HHS-2022-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-TV-0099). Under TVAP, the following activities are required: 1) provision of comprehensive, culturally and linguistically responsive case management to foreign national adults who have experienced labor and sex trafficking; 2) development and maintaining of a nationwide network of community-based providers to conduct human trafficking outreach, and provide direct services and community referrals, and; 3) establishment of local presence within each of the 10 ACF geographic regions to coordinate project activities and support the delivery of services through the nationwide network of community-based providers. ACF Region 1 includes: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. ACF Region 2 includes: New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. ACF Region 3 includes: Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. ACF Region 4 includes: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. ACF Region 5 includes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. ACF Region 6 includes: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. ACF Region 7 includes: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. ACF Region 8 includes: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. ACF Region 9 includes: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. ACF Region 10 includes: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. TVAP is informed by a whole family approach that focuses equally and intentionally on services and opportunities for clients and their immediate family members living within their households. OTIP is encouraging the meaningful engagement of foreign national adult survivors of trafficking, and the hiring of qualified professionals that reflect the communities being served in all project implementation strategies under TVAP.

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##   Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities Demonstration (VHT-NC) Program

01/06/2023

06/30/2023

MODIFICATION: OTIP has modified this forecast from its original version to reflect a change in project objectives. The originally proposed third objective (training) was replaced with public awareness. This is the only modification to the forecast. The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is announcing funds for the Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Demonstration Program. The VHT-NC Demonstration Program’s goal is to directly fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services to Native American (i.e., American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and/or Pacific Islanders) adults and minors who have experienced a severe form of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, through the provision of direct services, assistance, and referrals. Under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program the following activities are required: 1) provision of comprehensive, culturally and linguistically responsive, case management to Native Americans who have experienced sex and labor trafficking; 2) increase identification of Native Americans who have experienced sex and labor trafficking through outreach; and 3) public awareness activities for the local community and organizations that may encounter individuals who have experienced sex and labor trafficking. The VHT-NC Demonstration Program is informed by a whole family approach that focuses equally and intentionally on services and opportunities for clients and their immediate family members living within their households. OTIP is encouraging the establishment of community partnerships, meaningful engagement of Native American individuals who have experienced trafficking, and the hiring of qualified professionals that reflect the communities being served in all project implementation strategies under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program. Under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program, there is a 12-month project implementation period for the prime recipient to facilitate optional partnerships, on-board new staff, and develop service protocols specific to Native Americans who have experienced human trafficking. However, clients must be served during the 12-month project implementation period. Under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program, the prime recipient must provide a statutorily mandated 25 percent match (cash or in-kind).

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##   Comprehensive Systems Integration for Adolescent and Young Adult Health

01/11/2023

04/11/2023

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Comprehensive Systems Integration for Adolescent and Young Adult Health (CSI-AYAH) program. The purpose of this program is to increase the capacity of states, territories and tribal organizations to integrate systems of care, including health,1 school,2 and community3 systems, to promote adolescent and young adult (youth) health and well-being. This program will: 1) Establish a cross-sector alliance comprised of nationally recognized partners in health, school, and community systems that will collectively provide national leadership; 2) Support the alliance to develop and disseminate a national blueprint to improve adolescent health and well-being through systems integration in states, territories, and tribal organizations; 3) Provide targeted technical assistance (TA) to learning collaboratives comprised of leadership teams in states, territories, and/or tribal organizations working to implement cross-sector systems integration models; 4) Deliver TA to support Title V agencies that have selected performance measures related to improving adolescent health and/or behavioral health; and 5) Increase the number of state, territory, and tribal organizations accessing and implementing systems integration models to improve youth health and well-being. For more details, see Program Requirements and Expectations.

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##   Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers

01/12/2023

03/13/2023

In every State and community, early care and education (ECE) and child welfare systems are natural partners in meeting the social, emotional, developmental, mental health, and educational needs of young children and supporting families. Research has demonstrated that participation in Early Head Start, one such high-quality ECE program, improves key factors known to prevent child maltreatment. Despite this natural alignment, strategic and effective coordination between child welfare and ECE has proven difficult to achieve in many states and local jurisdictions due to a variety of long-standing challenges, many of which have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, despite the fact that children in foster care are categorically eligible for enrollment in Head Start/Early Head Start, and the benefits of engagement in such high-quality ECE programs for children and their families are well-documented, enrollment numbers for this population remain low. Support provided through this opportunity will allow for the development and/or enhancement of this strategic multi-system and multi-level collaboration between child welfare, ECE, and other relevant partners to effectively prevent child abuse and neglect and provide comprehensive supports to children and families. The benefits of participation in high-quality ECE programs extend well-beyond the enrolled child and often provide resources for parents and caregivers, siblings, and other family members through a whole-family approach that strengthens and supports their individual and collective well-being. Grant funding will support the development of policy, quality practice, and other strategies across systems that work to support children and families at-risk or engaged with the child welfare system. Grant recipients will implement strategies to ensure that coordination and communication between relevant partners becomes institutionalized. Such strategies may include, but are not limited to: establishing formalized mechanisms of coordination between partner agencies; increasing cross-training and partnership opportunities for child welfare and ECE at both the staff and leadership levels; developing and enhancing strategies to facilitate referral and coordination processes between agencies; and ensuring that child welfare agencies have ready and accurate information about ECE. Potential applicants will be required to demonstrate commitment of the appropriate State, local, or tribal child welfare agency and an appropriate ECE partner to implement their work.

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##   Secondary Analyses of Head Start Data

02/28/2023

05/12/2023

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) intends to solicit applications for Secondary Analyses of Head Start Data awards. These awards aim to support researchers conducting secondary analyses of data of relevance to Head Start (HS) programs and policies. This includes research of relevance to HS programs serving families with children 3 to 5 years old, Early HS programs serving pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, American Indian Alaska Native (AI/AN) HS programs serving families in tribal communities, and Migrant and Seasonal HS programs serving families engaged in migrant and seasonal farm work. The goals of the awards are to:Address topics of current relevance to the goals and outcomes of HS programs;Encourage active communication, networking, and collaboration among prominent HS researchers and policymakers; andIncrease the capacity of HS researchers to analyze existing data sets and disseminate their findings to multiple audiences.Topics and data set of particular interest will be identified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. Findings from these awards are intended to inform policy, program administration, and future research.If you are interested in this funding opportunity, please register at Grants.gov and subscribe to this forecast to receive update notifications.SAM.gov System Alert-Entity Validation Delays:All applicants must be registered at SAM.gov and establish a Unique Entity Identifier. Due to high demand, SAM.gov is experiencing a considerable delay in processing entity legal business name and address validation tickets. As needed, please start the process early to avoid interruptions in application submissions. You can find SAM resources related to this process here - https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0058....

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##   Quality Improvement Center on Workforce Analytics

03/06/2023

05/05/2023

In recognition of the significant impact of workforce issues on agencies, staff, and children and families, the Children’s Bureau identified addressing the needs of the child welfare workforce as one of its strategic plan goals. The Quality Improvement Center on Workforce Analytics (QIC) will emphasize development and analysis of workforce analytics to inform worker recruitment, performance and well-being strategies that support workforce innovation and retention; while also undertaking an array of activities to increase recruitment and decrease the turnover of child welfare staff from the frontline workers to top leadership. It will build knowledge in evidence-based workforce decision making practices and contribute to research on evidence based/informed workforce strategies that can support agencies’ effective recruitment and retention strategies, appropriate employee selection protocols, exploring new and innovative non-traditional pathways to expand agency recruitment pools, and ability to organize their staff to effectively get their work done. The QIC will partner with selected states, tribes and/or territories interested in the development of workforce analytics to help address the current workforce crisis. Through a data driven systematic approach, the QIC will provide leadership to identify and assess workforce needs and develop strategic plans to engage and support a child welfare workforce that is responsive to the continuum of child welfare needs from prevention to permanency. The QIC will examine existing data and reporting structures to identify and establish core workforce metrics that guide worker recruitment, promote worker well-being and performance, and guide workforce innovation. Core components will include contributing to a national understanding of workforce metrics; collecting, developing, and disseminating evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies related to workforce development; supporting jurisdictions to pilot identified interventions to better support child welfare leaders; providing technical assistance support for implementation of best practices; evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions. Success will be measured by increased data informed decision-making capacity; improvements in recruitment capacity, retention rates, worker satisfaction, and intention to stay; and improved agency culture and climate that supports worker recruitment and retention. The anticipated funding level for this award is $1,270,000 for the first year and $2,100,000 for years 2 - 5.

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##   Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Dissertation Grants

03/16/2023

05/19/2023

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to solicit applications for Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Dissertation Grants. Funds support dissertation research by advanced graduate students working on child care policy issues in partnership with a Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) agency or administrator and with faculty mentors. These grants focus on building capacity in the research field by: addressing questions relevant to child care policy decision-making and program administration, supporting applied research experiences through collaboration with CCDF agencies, fostering mentoring relationships between faculty members and doctoral students. OPRE is interested in research that addresses issues of significance related to CCDF; aims to inform policy decisions and solutions, particularly for populations that are underserved/understudied; and utilizes the most rigorous research methodology for the selected research question. Applicants must consult with a CCDF agency or administrator in the conceptualization of the research plan, from development and refinement of the research questions, through the proposed data collection or secondary analyses of data, interpretation, and dissemination of findings. Eligible Tribally Controlled Land Grant Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and faith-based institutions of higher education are encouraged to apply. The applicant organization must have a history of research and federal funding oversight and must have appropriate research support resources to support the student. The faculty mentor who will serve as principal investigator must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in the respective field and conduct research as a primary professional responsibility. Faculty mentors with doctoral training and research expertise must be able to provide proper supervision and quality control over the project and interactions with participating agencies to help ensure successful completion of sound dissertation research that addresses critical policy questions of interest to local CCDF partner(s) and ACF. To be eligible for award, the graduate student must provide evidence of an approved dissertation proposal with their application. This is a change from previous years when applicants were given additional time to submit evidence of an approved dissertation proposal after the application due date. The 2023 application due date and the due date for the evidence of an approved dissertation proposal are the same and will be specified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). For further information about prior awards made to Child Care Research Scholars, please refer to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/child-care-research-schola.... For more information about OPRE, see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre. For information about the Office of Child Care and CCDF, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ. Please subscribe to this forecast at grants.gov to receive notifications of any updates. SAM.gov System Alert - Entity Validation Delays: All applicants must be registered at SAM.gov and establish a Unique Entity Identifier. Due to high demand, SAM.gov is experiencing a considerable delay in processing entity legal business name and address validation tickets. As needed, please start the process early to avoid interruptions in application submissions. You can find SAM resources related to this process here - https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0058....

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##   Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grants

03/16/2023

05/18/2023

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) plans to solicit applications for Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grants. Funds support dissertation research by advanced graduate students working in partnership with Head Start programs and with faculty mentors. These grants focus on building capacity in the research field by: (1) addressing questions relevant to early childhood programs that serve children and families with low-income, (2) supporting applied experience with collaboration with participating program partners, and (3) fostering mentoring relationships between faculty members and doctoral students. OPRE is interested in research that directly informs local, state, or federal policies and is relevant to multiple early care and education settings. Applicants must demonstrate an established partnership with their Head Start program partner(s) (and other early care and education program partners if applicable) that should be apparent throughout the research plan, from development and refinement of the research questions through the proposed data collection or secondary analyses of data, interpretation, and dissemination of findings. Eligible Tribally Controlled Land Grant Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and faith-based institutions of higher education are encouraged to apply. The applicant organization must have a history of research and federal funding oversight and must have appropriate research support resources to support the student. The faculty mentor who will serve as principal investigator must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in the respective field and conduct research as a primary professional responsibility. Faculty mentors with doctoral training and research expertise must be able to provide proper supervision and quality control over the project and interactions with participating programs to help ensure successful completion of sound dissertation research that addresses critical questions of interest to program(s) and ACF. To be eligible for award, the graduate student must provide evidence of an approved dissertation proposal with their application. This is a change from previous years when applicants were given additional time to submit evidence of an approved dissertation proposal after the application due date. The 2023 application due date and the due date for the evidence of an approved dissertation proposal are the same and will be specified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). For further information about previous Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant recipients, please refer to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/head-start-graduate-studen.... For more information about OPRE, see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre. For information about the Office of Head Start and Head Start programs, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ohs . Please subscribe to this forecast at grants.gov to receive notifications of any updates. SAM.gov System Alert - Entity Validation Delays: All applicants must be registered at SAM.gov and establish a Unique Entity Identifier. Due to high demand, SAM.gov is experiencing a considerable delay in processing entity legal business name and address validation tickets. As needed, please start the process early to avoid interruptions in application submissions. You can find SAM resources related to this process here - https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0058....

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##   National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services

03/29/2023

05/30/2023

The purpose of this funding opportunity will be to provide one grant to a recipient to create a National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services (the Center) with the capacity to work with state child welfare systems to build the bridges with the mental health community for the further development and training of the mental health practitioners in issues related to separation, loss, grief and trauma and to develop strategies for making trauma-based competent mental health services consistently and comprehensively available throughout each state. All work of this entity will be accomplished utilizing a race equity lens.States struggle with providing comprehensive and adoption competent mental health services for children in foster care and adoptive/guardianship homes. Availability of mental health practitioners trained about the trauma-base experienced by these children is limited, yet these services are critical to the well-being and stability of children while in care and in adoptive/guardianship homes. Building bridges between the child welfare system and the state mental health systems is key to bringing about systemic change to increase and improve on the services provided to children/youth and their families.The development of a national center is expected to raise the level of utilization of existing evidence-informed, state-of-the-art adoption-competent training for mental health practitioners that will increase the access and availability of professionals with trauma informed competence. The Center will provide individual technical assistance to the child welfare systems of states, tribes, and territories in building alliances with the mental health community to build access to competent mental health services for children in care and in adoptive/guardianship homes.

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##   Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program

04/11/2023

06/12/2023

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) program. The purpose of this program is to promote behavioral health integration into pediatric primary care by supporting the planning and development of statewide, regional or tribal pediatric mental health care tele-consult access programs. These networks of pediatric mental health care teams will provide tele-consultation, training, technical assistance, and care coordination support for pediatric primary care providers (PCPs) to diagnose, treat, and refer children with behavioral health conditions. This funding opportunity is available for (1) continuation of current awardees whose project began in FY 2018 and 2019 whose project period is ending and (2) new awards to expand the program into new geographic areas. • Competing Continuations: Applicants with an existing HRSA funded PMHCA program (that began in FY 2018 and FY 2019) Applicants seeking a competing continuation would be able to access a 3-year period of performance at $700,000 per year to focus on continued implementation and expansion of the existing program (with no planning period). Programs will expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of behavioral health services that PCPs and other providers can provide to children, adolescents, and their families, including in sites such as emergency departments and schools. • New Programs: For interested entities not currently funded, this funding opportunity will support the development of statewide, regional or tribal pediatric mental health care tele-consult access program. Funding will support new award recipients at $500,000 per year. Planning includes developing the needed infrastructure, including establishment of reliable, high-speed broadband technology, personnel, establishing or expanding partnerships, resources, and processes to provide behavioral health (tele-consult and in-person) consultation to pediatricians and other primary care providers, training, technical assistance (TA), and care coordination support services. In addition, planning should include identification of the pediatric mental health care access team (described below) and development of processes, protocols, and procedures needed to execute hiring contracts and implement operations. Applications should detail planning year and two implementation years. To increase capacity to provide behavioral health supports to children, award recipients should use this planning period to bring together key partners, including schools, emergency departments, local and state government, health and social service agencies, Tribal organizations, insurance, family and self-advocacy organizations, PCPs, behavioral health, medical and professional organizations, and academic institutions. Once implemented, these programs will expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of behavioral health services that PCPs can provide to children and adolescents. All successful recipients will focus on addressing disparities in access to care, especially in rural and other underserved areas. Successful applicants will establish methods to achieve health equity goals and objectives in pediatric behavioral health. This program will serve as a resource for pediatric primary care providers serving children and adolescents, including, but not limited to, pediatricians, family physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. The programs are encouraged to broaden the reach to additional providers such as physician specialists (e.g., developmental-behavioral pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists, endocrinologists, and gastroenterologists), pharmacists, occupational therapists, behavioral health clinicians, care coordinators, mental health counselors such as addiction specialists, and social workers. Programs are strongly encouraged to reach school-based and emergency department providers. Program Goals The program’s long-term goal is to: increase routine diagnosis, treatment, and referral of child and adolescent behavioral health conditions in primary care including by reducing disparities in access to behavioral health care, especially in rural and other underserved areas. The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance to support program goals are: • Increase the number of providers using the program for real-time behavioral consultations and/or care coordination support services (including referrals). • Increase the number of providers trained on child and adolescent behavioral disorders, including screening, diagnosis, and treatment. • Increase the number of provider trainings that incorporate equity and respectful or culturally and linguistically responsive care. • Increase the number of children and adolescents for whom a provider contacted the program for consultation and/or care coordination support services, especially those living in rural and other underserved areas. For more details, see Program Requirements and Expectations.

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##   State-Tribal Partnerships to Implement Best Practices in Indian Child Welfare

04/11/2023

06/13/2023

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children are nearly 3 times more likely to enter foster care, compared to non-Native children. These five year grants are intended to generate evidence for how best to effectively implement child welfare practices and ongoing active efforts to maintain AI/AN families by funding state and tribal partnerships to jointly design and operate Indian child welfare best practice implementation demonstration sites. The evidence generated and lessons learned through this effort are intended to contribute to implementation efforts nationally to help maintain and preserve AI/AN families and allow their children to remain connected to their communities and cultures. The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to create and implement intergovernmental partnership models to improve implementation of child welfare best practices that are culturally appropriate for federally recognized AI/AN children to prevent maltreatment, removal from families and communities, and improve safety, permanency, and well-being. Recipients will serve as demonstration sites to design and implement projects to effectively implement culturally appropriate best practices in Indian child welfare, including research and evaluation of improvements in child welfare practice, Indian child welfare codes, legal and judicial processes, case monitoring, case planning, data collection, in-home family preservation services, infrastructure, and systems change. Partnerships must include the state Court Improvement Program, the state child welfare agency, and one or more tribal governments or tribal consortia including corresponding tribal court(s). The "Tribal government" partner(s) may be tribal child welfare agencies where appropriate under tribal law or custom. Effective culturally appropriate best practices for implementation require a high degree of collaboration between state and tribal courts and Indian child welfare agencies. Thus, both states and tribes must identify, build, and enhance necessary capacities. State/tribal collaborations will work together to craft solutions for longstanding challenges to providing effective best practices in Indian child welfare in ways that work best for their communities. This notice of funding opportunity is intended to encourage state and tribal governments to work together to find creative, common-sense ways to meet the needs of AI/AN families with culturally appropriate best practices in Indian child welfare, with active efforts to retain or reunite Indian children with family as the “gold standard” for best Indian child welfare practice. The grant also provides an important opportunity for states and tribes to build or strengthen relationships of trust by working together toward common family preservation goals. As part of the project, recipients may also consider the role of civil legal services in implementation efforts. Assessment of the effectiveness and/or need for legal representation to parties in Indian child welfare cases may be included in project work, as may provision of direct civil legal services, to the extent that such legal services are an identified part of a pilot or practice model to be tested. For purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, "Tribal courts" are defined consistent with the Bureau of Indian Affairs regulations as "a court with jurisdiction over child custody proceedings and which is either a Court of Indian Offenses, a court established and operated under the code or custom of an Indian tribe, or any other administrative body of a tribe which is vested with authority over child custody proceedings.

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