The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) is soliciting applications to support healthy marriage and relationship education activities including parenting, and job and career advancement activities.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/29/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Relationships, Education, Advancement, Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) program will provide funding for projects that offer comprehensive services that help youth build healthy relationship skills now and for the future (including dating, marriage, and co-parenting) while supporting positive socioemotional development and successful transitions to young adulthood. This includes healthy marriage and relationship education, parenting skills, and financial management and career advancement activities. The service audience is youth ages 14 to 24, including parenting and/or pregnant youth.
Additionally, projects are expected to include at least 12 hours of curriculum-based workshops and meet program participation targets. They are also interested in projects that implement one specific program model designed for a service population, such as youth in high schools, youth in out-of-school settings, or teen parents.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $23,100,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,250,000
- Award Floor: $400,000.
Grant Period
5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Special district governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
