Deadline: 19-May-22
The Administration for Children and Families – ACYF/CB is seeking applications for its AdoptUSKids project that is designed to assist states, tribes, and territories in the recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive parents for children in public foster care.
Components
The AdoptUSKids project will encompass the following components:
- National Adoption Internet Photolisting Service: Maintain and manage the National Adoption Internet Photolisting and coordinate with all STTs for the listing of their eligible children/youth, while incorporating best practices and quality improvement standards in photolisting;
- National Adoption Recruitment Campaign: Plan, develop, and implement the Children's Bureau's (CB) multimedia National Adoption Recruitment Campaign and a corresponding Recruitment Response Support Initiative intended to reach and inspire adult Americans to adopt by offering important, accurate information about the foster care system and the adoption process;
- National Adoption and Foster Care Information Exchange System: Maintain a National Adoption and Foster Care Information Exchange System that raises public awareness and assists STTs in recruiting foster and adoptive parents for children in foster care;
- Adoptive and Foster Family Support Activities: Develop and disseminate information, strategies, and effective or evidence-based models for the implementation of adoptive and foster family support activities for STTs. Develop and disseminate information on innovative approaches for creating communities of practice, peer-to-peer technical assistance, and leadership training to enhance and support adoptive and foster family support groups.
- Capacity Building Services for Diligent Recruitment and Retention of Foster/Adoptive Families: Provide constituency services and universal product development and dissemination to STTs across the nation to assist in building agency capacity for the diligent recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive families, primarily focused on models of best practices related to photo listing, diligent recruitment, recruitment media, customer service and adoptive and foster family support activities; and
- Minority Professional Leadership Development (MLPD) in the Adoption
- Field: Provide for the on-going implementation of the MPLD program to promote professional leadership development of minorities in the adoption field.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,900,000
- Award Ceiling: $6,900,000
- Award Floor: $4,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Others
- County governments"
- Eligibility is open to states, local government entities, and public or private organizations.
- Applicants must demonstrate experience in child welfare, foster home development, adoption services, national adoption recruitment campaigns, collaboration with public service advertising agencies and private advertising agencies offering pro bono work, and professional leadership development for minority populations.
- CB will accept applications that represent partnerships among organizations with relevant experience. Applicants may subcontract with organizations to carry out a portion of the project's work. Applications from collaborations must identify a primary applicant responsible for administering the cooperative agreement.
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and funding under this funding opportunity.
- Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity.
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For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335735