The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) provides temporary residential care to unaccompanied alien children (referred to as child or children).
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/14/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The goal of the Residential (Group Home, Shelter, Transitional Foster Care (TFC)) Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children funding opportunity is to provide funding to organizations that can deliver high-quality and child-centered care, ensuring the safety and well-being of the children.
Project may focus on Group Home, Shelter, or TFC services.
- Group Home: Specializes in caring for specific populations (e.g., teen mothers). A group home is run by 24-hour staff or house parents and typically houses 4 to 12 unaccompanied alien children.
- Shelter: Children receive all the programmatic requirements onsite in the least restrictive environment. Providers must offer a child-friendly setting that is appropriate for children of all ages.
- Transitional Foster Care (TFC): Specializes in caring for children under 13 years of age, sibling groups or related children with one sibling or related child under 13 years of age, pregnant/parenting teens, or children with specific individualized needs. Children in TFC are placed with foster families and must receive services at a central location. This includes educational services, which must be delivered by care provider staff, unless ORR approval has been granted for a child to attend a community-based school. Other required services, such as clinical (in this funding opportunity, “clinical services” means “mental or behavioral health counseling”) and case management services.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,500,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $500,000,000
- Award Floor: $15,000,000.
Grant Period
36-month project period with three 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Small businesses
- State governments
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
