Assistance program
Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants
$809.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary);Dissemination of Technical Information
- CFDA number
- 93.086
- What it does
- Under the Family, Relationship, and Marriage Education Works opportunity, the purpose is to fund projects that provide healthy marriage activities and integrate career advancement opportunities for adults. Under the Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life opportunity, the purpose is to provide healthy marriage promotion services to support youth in late adolescence to early adulthood. Under the Fatherhood - Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential opportunity, the purpose is to fund Responsible Fatherhood promotion projects to promote healthy relationships, strengthen positive father-child engagement, and improve economic stability opportunities for adult fathers. For the Child Welfare Services to Tribal Families at Risk of Child Abuse or Neglect Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child Welfare (TTCW) opportunity, the purpose is to fund projects to test the effectiveness of tribal governments in the provision to tribal families at risk of child abuse or neglect.
- Who benefits
- Persons who may benefit from the assistance includes, individuals, couples, and youth in need of assistance with Healthy Marriage services. For the Responsible Fatherhood programs, beneficiaries are fathers (with children who are up to age 24) interested in Responsible Fatherhood activities, including parenting education, economic stability services, and marriage and relationship education (recipients may not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, disability, or religion) . Tribal TANF Child Welfare funds assist in the efforts to enhance and expand the ability of States, Native American governments, local governments, for-profit organizations, non-profit community organizations and other public entities to provide family formation and responsible fatherhood services to those in need.
- Who applies
- Under the Healthy Marriage Promotion provision of the legislation, all public and private entities are eligible to apply (including, state, territorial, local, and quasi-governmental agencies, Native American tribal governments and tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, independent school districts, public, private or Tribal institutions of higher education, and for-profit entities). Eligible applicants under Responsible Fatherhood include: states, territories, Native American tribes and tribal organizations, and public and nonprofit community entities (including public and private nonprofit post-secondary educational institutions). Individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible. The eligible applicants under the Tribal TANF and Child Welfare Services program are: Indian tribes and Alaska Native regional non-profits that administer a Tribal TANF program or a consortia of two or more Indian tribes.
- Authorized by
- Social Security Act
- The Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (CRA)
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$809.2M
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