The Administration for Children and Families – ACYF/CB is seeking applications for its AdoptUSKids project that designed to assist states, tribes, and territories in the recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive parents for children in public foster care.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/19/2022
Grant Size: $6,900,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
The AdoptUSKids project will encompass the following components:
- National Adoption Internet Photolisting Service: Maintain and manage the National Adoption Internet Photolisting and coordinate with all STTs for the listing of their eligible children/youth, while incorporating best practices and quality improvement standards in photolisting;
- National Adoption Recruitment Campaign: Plan, develop, and implement the Children’s Bureau’s (CB) 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;
- National Adoption and Foster Care Information Exchange System: Maintain a National Adoption and Foster Care Information Exchange System that raises public awareness and assists STTs in recruiting foster and adoptive parents for children in foster care;
- 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 STTs. 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.
- Capacity Building Services for Diligent Recruitment and Retention of Foster/Adoptive Families: Provide constituency services and universal product development and dissemination to STTs 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 photo listing, diligent recruitment, recruitment media, customer service and adoptive and foster family support activities; and
- Minority Professional Leadership Development (MLPD) in the Adoption Field: Provide for the on-going implementation of the MPLD program to promote professional leadership development of minorities in the adoption field.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,900,000
- Award Ceiling: $6,900,000
- Award Floor: $4,000,000
- Length of Project Periods: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- Independent school districts
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- County governments
- Small businesses
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments
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