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Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System

Most Recent Update:

05/01/2013 06:13:56 AM

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Summary:

Funding Opportunity Number:

HHS-2013-ACF-ACYF-CO-0593

Forecast ID Number:

ACF-2013-FCAST-0346

Fiscal Year:

2013

Funding Opportunity Title:

Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System

CFDA Number:

93.652

Funding Activity Category:

Income Security and Social Services (ISS)

CFDA Number Description:

Family and Child Welfare Services
Research, Demonstration

Funding Instrument Type Code(s):

Cooperative Agreement

Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement:

Recovery Act:

Affordable Care Act (ACA):

Estimated Funding Information:

Estimated Funding:

$3,200,000

Expected Number of Awards:

Estimated Award Ceiling:

$400,000

Estimated Award Floor:

$200,000

Estimated Milestone Dates:

Estimated Post Date:

04/01/2013

Estimated Application Due Date:

05/31/2013

Application Due Date Explanation:

Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.

Estimated Award Date:

09/27/2013

Estimated Start Date:

09/30/2013

Eligibility:

Eligibility Category:

State governments

County governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

** Additional Eligibility Information:

Collaborative efforts are strongly encouraged, but applicants must identify a primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement.

Federally-recognized Indian Tribal governments include Alaska Native villages and Tribal consortia consisting of two or more federally-recognized Indian Tribes.

Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

** Description:

THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED. PLEASE SEE THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR DETAILS

This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits applications to fund cooperative agreements, for the purpose of developing programs to recruit resource families for children in foster care. Applications submitted in response to this announcement should propose projects that 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; effectively identify, engage and support resource families as a means of improving permanency outcomes and building lasting connections for children in foster care.

2. Integrate the diligent recruitment programs into the Child and Family Service Plan and 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 and building connections, incorporating changes at the policy and practice level and embracing the philosophy of permanency beginning at entry into the child welfare system;

4. Evaluate the implementation of the comprehensive diligent recruitment programs to document processes and potential linkages between diligent recruitment strategies and improved outcomes; and;

5. Develop identifiable sites that other States/locales seeking to implement improved diligent recruitment methods can look at for guidance, insight and possible replication.

Federal Agency Contact Information:

Federal Agency:

Department of Health and Human Services

Name:

Taffy Compain

Email Address:

Taffy.Compain@ACF.hhs.gov

Phone:

OpDiv:

Administration for Children & Families

Sub OpDiv:

Administration on Children, Youth and Families

Division:

Children's Bureau

Modification History:

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04/10/2013 05:57:13 AM	6
02/13/2013 05:55:52 PM	5
01/28/2013 12:48:39 PM	4
12/05/2012 06:23:49 AM	3
12/04/2012 08:28:29 AM	2
11/29/2012 06:21:25 AM	1

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