This webpage provides general information about Children's Bureau discretionary grants. Forecasts - As it becomes available, information about planned funding opportunity announcements is available on the Department of Health and Human Services Grants Forecast website . To find the Children's Bureau's planned announcements, select "ACF (Administration on Children and Families)" in the “Agency” field. Publication dates - Several separate Children's Bureau funding opportunity announcements are published each year, rather than one consolidated announcement. They are usually published at different times. Publication sites - Children's Bureau discretionary grant funding opportunity announcements are published in Grants.gov , and on the ACF Funding Opportunity Announcement page. Grants.gov - Grants.gov is the single location for all Federal grant program information. A short synopsis of each funding opportunity announcement is posted here as soon as it is released for publication. In Grants.gov, the Children's Bureau's funding opportunity announcements are listed under the Funding Activity Category Income Security and Social Services, and under the Agency Category Department of Health and Human Services. Grants.gov provides customer support via e-mail and telephone. Notification of publication - Visit Grants.gov and the ACF grants opportunity page to access publication information. The Grants.gov web site has options for requesting automated notification. In Grants.gov you can select categories of funding opportunity announcements, and ask to be notified when these announcements are published. Getting an application - After an announcement is published, applicants can download the announcement and required forms. The announcement will include all the information needed to complete and submit your application. Electronic Submission - Applicants must submit their application electronically, unless they request and are granted a waiver. Applicants are advised to be sure that they secure and retain their service ticket number for reference whenever they have any interaction with the Grants.gov Contact Center. Electronic applications will be accepted only through Grants.gov. Detailed instructions for applying on-line are posted on Grants.gov. Grants.gov provides customer support via email and telephone. For further questions - Please call the CB Operations Center at 1-866-796-1591. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This guide offers an up-to-date list of resources that can be used to inform and enhance the evaluations of child welfare initiatives funded through the Children’s Bureau discretionary grant program. It also serves as a general resource for researchers and evaluators in a range of health and human service fields. Resources included in the guide cover topics such as evaluation design, data collection and analysis, and reporting and using evaluation findings. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

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The following are Children's Bureau discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year (FY) 2020. When available, each grant award will include a link to the expired Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), a brief description, the grant recipients, and a link to their project abstracts. HHS-2020-ACF-ACYF-CZ-1840 The purpose of this FOA is to create, through cooperative agreement, a National Child Welfare Capacity Building Center for Courts (Center). The Center will serve as the focal point for national child welfare expertise, evidence-informed training and technical assistance services, and workforce development support for State Court Improvement Programs (CIP), Tribal Court Improvement Programs (TCIP), courts, child welfare attorneys, and the Children's Bureau's State and Tribal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Implementation Partnership Grantees. These services and supports are designed to build the capacity of state and tribal courts, CIPs, TCIPs and child welfare judges and attorneys to meet federal requirements, to participate in federal monitoring and related state and tribal child welfare program improvement planning activities, to implement national child welfare policies and programs, to improve practice and service delivery, and to achieve prevention, safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children, youth, and families. The first-year award amount is up to $3,000,000, with a project period up to 48 months. The grant was awarded to the following: HHS-2020-ACF-ACYF-CZ-1839 The purpose of this FOA is to establish, through cooperative agreement, one Quality Improvement Center (QIC) to develop a model program to assess and address the array of individual and collective needs of birth families to support timely, stable, and lasting family reunification and family well-being. The QIC will install, implement, and evaluate the model program in 4-6 local sites. The QIC will incorporate information learned through a literature review, a pool of technical assistance (TA) experts, and the input of birth parents, foster parents, youth, courts, and community service providers/support organizations throughout development and implementation of project activities. The first-year award amount is up to $2,000,000, with a project period up to 60 months. The grant was awarded to the following: HHS-2019-ACF-ACYF-CS-1561 The purpose of this FOA is to award one-time grants to tribes, tribal organizations, or tribal consortia that are seeking to develop a plan to implement a title IV-E foster care; adoption assistance; and, at tribal option, a title IV-E plan under section 471 of the Social Security Act. The grant may be used for costs relating to the development of data-collection systems, a cost-allocation methodology, agency and tribal court procedures necessary to meet the case review system requirements under section 475(5) of the Act, or any other costs attributable to meeting any other requirement necessary for approval of a title IV-E plan. The award amount is up to $300,000 for one 24-month project and budget period. The grants were awarded to the following: Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.