The Administration for Children and Families – ACYF/CB is accepting applications for its Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers Program.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $275,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
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.
Goals
The purpose of this NOFO is to fund eight grant recipients for 3-year projects to support the development and/or enhancement of strategic multi-system and multi-level collaboration between child welfare, ECE, and other relevant partners. Such efforts will support infrastructure and capacity-building to deliver complementary, coordinated, and holistic services to young children and their families and caregivers. Grant funding will support the development of policy, coordination mechanisms and procedures, quality practice, and other strategies across systems that work to support children and families with or at-risk of involvement with the child welfare system, including children of color and their families. This will include efforts to maximize the identification, referral, enrollment, and attendance of infants and young children with or at-risk of child welfare involvement into comprehensive high-quality ECE services. Oversurveillance of children and families of color is not a goal of this NOFO, and grant recipients must be mindful of this fact when planning and implementing their funded efforts.
Grant recipients will focus on meeting the following project goals:
- Develop and/or enhance strategic coordination and communication among child welfare, ECE, families and caregivers with young children, and other relevant partners.
- Support the development and institutionalization of policies and/or procedures within a jurisdiction to increase the identification, enrollment, and attendance of infants and young children, with or at-risk, of child welfare involvement into comprehensive, high-quality ECE services.
- Build infrastructure capacity to ensure the provision of comprehensive and holistic services to young children and their families with or at-risk of child welfare system involvement.
- Create, implement, and/or strengthen joint efforts to advance racial equity within the child welfare, ECE, and partner systems to ensure that historically underserved and marginalized populations of color have access to high-quality ECE services that build on their strengths and are responsive to their individualized needs.
- Conduct a program evaluation to determine the extent to which funded efforts have contributed to improved coordination and communication; strengthened networks; and increased referrals, enrollments, and engagement in quality ECE programs, particularly for historically underserved populations.
- Disseminate information and knowledge gained from project findings and support efforts to allow for programs and policymakers to broadly integrate project knowledge into policy and practice within the child welfare, ECE, and other relevant fields.
This section highlights project requirements in the following areas:
- Target Population
- Collaboration
- Project Activities and Strategies
- Evaluation Plan
- Project Sustainability Plan
- Dissemination Plan
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $275,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $250,000 Per Budget Period
- Average Projected Award Amount: $275,000
Project Period
36-month project period with three 12-month budget periods
Eligible Applicants
- State governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Small businesses
Additional Information on Eligibility
Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity. Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of 45 CFR Part 87 and 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., ACF will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
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