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This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance on the eligibility requirements and grant application procedures for the State CIP grant for FY 2025, including updating the five-year strategic plan, and to provide guidance on the requirements for state courts to continuously assess and improve the handling of court proceedings related to child welfare and enhance collaboration with title IV-B/IV-E agencies and tribes.

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to inform title IV-E agencies that a NPRM was published proposing to amend the AFCARS regulations to require state title IV-E agencies to collect and report data elements related to the procedural protections of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). This NPRM was published in the Federal Register on February 23, 2024 (89 FR 13652 ).

PI-24-03

Guidance to tribes on actions required to complete and submit the (1) Final Report for FYs 2020-2024; (2) the new CFSP for FYs 2025- 2029; and (3) the CFS-101, Parts I, II, and III.
February 21, 2024

Summary of actions required to complete and submit the (1) Final Report for FYs 2015-2019; (2) the new CFSP for FYs 2020- 2024; and (3) the CFS-101, Parts I, II, and III.

PI-24-02

Summary of the actions required in completion and submission of (1) the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) Final Report and CAPTA Update FYs 2020-2024, (2) the CFSP for FYs 2025-2029, and (3) the CFS-101, Parts I, II, and III.
February 15, 2024

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance to states, territories, and insular areas (hereafter “states,” unless otherwise noted) on actions they are required to take to receive their allotments for Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (subject to the availability of appropriations) authorized under title IV-B, subparts 1 and 2, section 106 of CAPTA, Chafee and ETV programs.

ACYF-CB-PI-24-01

PI-24-01
February 2, 2024

This Program Instruction (PI) provides state and tribal title IV-E agencies (agencies) guidance and describes the documentation requirements an agency must complete to maintain compliance with CCWIS requirements while evaluating new child welfare business processes, tools, or information technologies through pilots.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides agencies with information on contracting and procurement practices that promote increased participation by small businesses owned by members of disadvantaged, underserved, and marginalized communities in solicitations to develop a CCWIS.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides introductory information to title IV-E tribes that choose to develop and implement an automated Child Welfare Information System. This IM contains information about how an automated system can support a tribal title IV-E agency’s child welfare program, implementing and maintaining systems, title IV-E funding, and the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).

This Information Memorandum (IM) is to remind state and tribal title IV-E agencies of the school enrollment and educational stability requirements for students in foster care included in the title IV-E and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

This Program Instruction provides instructions for title IV-E agencies that opt to adopt licensing or approval standards for relative or kinship foster family homes that differ from the standards used for non-relative foster family homes.  It also provides instructions for title IV-E agencies to implement the requirement that a licensed or approved relative or kinship foster family home receives the same amount of foster care maintenance payment (FCMP) that would have been made if the child was placed in a non-related/non-kinship foster family home.

The Children’s Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is committed to partnering on a nation-to-nation basis with Tribes to ensure the wellbeing of Tribal children and preservation of Tribal families. We invite Tribal Leaders to provide input on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for foster care legal representation and an NPRM for safe and appropriate placements and services for children in foster care who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, or intersex, as well as children who are on-binary or have non-conforming gender identity or expression (LGBTQI+). Both NPRMs were published in the Federal Register on September 28th, 2023 and are open for public comment.  The Tribal consultation will be held on October 30, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. E.D.T.

The attached letter provides more information on how to register. We welcome your participation and the opportunity to hear from you.