Grant✓ Small businesses may apply
Collaborative Approaches to Adoption for Children with Complex Needs
Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB
Award ceiling
$2,150,000
Award floor
$1,500,000
Program funding
$6,450,000
- Opportunity #
- HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-CO-0055
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB
- ALN (CFDA)
- 93.652
- Status
- posted
- Posted
- Jul 27, 2026
- Closes
- Aug 26, 2026
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
- Income Security and Social Services
- Cost sharing required
- No
Who can apply
- •Small businesses
- •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
- •Special district governments
- •Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- •Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- •Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- •Private institutions of higher education
- •For profit organizations other than small businesses
- •Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- •Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- •State governments
- •Independent school districts
- •County governments
- •City or township governments
N/A Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible for awards under this funding opportunity.
Synopsis
This funding opportunity aims to support innovations that build evidence on how to help children and youth with complex or high-acuity needs achieve permanency through adoption. The projects will focus on collaborative, system-level efforts to recruit, train, support, and retain families who can meet these children's needs.Projects must be led by researchers who work within a child welfare agency or work in close partnership with one or more child welfare agencies. Together, researchers and child welfare program staff will identify and evaluate promising collaborative approaches.Collaborations that include Medicaid Section 1115 Research and Demonstration Projects, private adoption agencies, or community- or faith-based organizations are of particular interest.You'll be expected to: (1) Study how the model works in practice (i.e., implementation study). (2) Evaluate the effectiveness of the approach. (3) Use the most rigorous research designs, methods, and analytic techniques that are appropriate and sufficient to address the research questions of interest.Projects are expected to build on the existing research evidence and contribute generalized knowledge.
Contact
Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB · cb@grantreview.org