Assistance program
Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants
$717.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.590
- What it does
- The objectives of the Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants are (1) to support community-based efforts to develop, operate, expand, and enhance, and coordinate initiatives, programs, and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect and to support the coordination of resources and activities to better strengthen and support families to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect; and (2) to foster understanding, appreciation and knowledge of diverse populations in order to effectively prevent and treat child abuse and neglect.
- Who benefits
- There are no eligibility requirements. Beneficiaries are children, their families, and other caregivers.
- Who applies
- States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible. For formula awards: Before a state can apply, the Governor must designate a lead entity to administer the funds for the implementation of community-based child abuse and neglect prevention programs and activities. For discretionary awards: Tribes may participate through application for awards made available by a 1% annual set-aside of the entire CBCAP apportionment, of both mandatory and discretionary funds, legislated for tribes, tribal organizations and migrant programs.
- Authorized by
- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), as amended by P.L.115-271, enacted on December 20, 2010.
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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments