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This document lists the recipients of the 2024 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

The following are the Children's Bureau (CB) discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year 2024. When available, each award includes a link to and description of the expired Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), a list of the grant recipients, and links to their project abstracts.

The Family First Prevention Services Act enacted as part of Public Law (PL) 115 -123, amended Title IV-E to allow title IV-E agencies the option to receive funding for evidence-based kinship navigator programs that meet certain criteria.  Kinship navigator programs help relative and kin caregivers learn about and access programs and services to meet their own needs and the needs of the children they are raising.

Title IV-B, subpart 2 of the Social Security Act sets aside funding for formula grants to help states improve the quality of caseworker visits with children in foster care, with an emphasis on improving caseworker decision-making on the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in foster children and caseworker recruitment, retention and training.

This document lists the recipients of the 2023 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

https://cwlibrary.childwelfare.gov/discovery/delivery/01CWIG_INST:01CWIG/1223844980007651 The following are the Children’s Bureau discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year (FY) 2023. 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.

This document lists the recipients of the 2022 Adoption Excellence Awards, provides a brief description of each recipient’s work, and features photos and quotes from youth who have been adopted or are waiting for an adoptive family. 

The following are the Children’s Bureau discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year (FY) 2022. Each award includes, when available, 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.

This document provides an overview of the Court Improvement  grant program.

This document lists the recipients of the 2021 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.