Assistance program
Child Welfare Research Training or Demonstration
$93.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.648
- What it does
- This program supports research and demonstration projects which are of national or regional significance and special projects for the demonstration of new methods which show promise of substantial contribution to the advancement of child welfare. Projects are intended to demonstrate the utilization of research in the field of child welfare to encourage experimental and special types of child welfare services, and provide professional education opportunities to prospective and current child welfare agency staff and to develop competency-based training curricula and special projects for training child welfare personnel in specific areas.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries are people who work in, or who are considering working in child welfare related fields, as well as children and families who have been removed, or are at risk of removal from their homes.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning, public or other nonprofit agencies or organizations engaged in research on child welfare activities; state or local public agencies responsible for administering, or supervising the administration of the title IV-B plan; and public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning for special projects for training personnel for work in the field of child welfare. Please see the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for further information.
- Authorized by
- Social Security Act, Section 426 and 429, 42 U.S.C. 626 and 628b
- Program site
- https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb ↗
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.
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