Deadline: 17-Mar-25
The Administration for Children and Families is inviting applications for the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grants Program to support evidence-based home visiting programs for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) families and children.
Awards will help recipients do all the following:
- Provide high-quality, culturally grounded, evidence-based home visiting services to AI/AN families and children.
- Use performance measurement and continuous quality improvement systems.
- Develop early childhood systems.
- Participate in research and evaluation to build evidence around home visiting, particularly in tribal communities.
Goals
- The goals of the Tribal MIECHV program are to:
- Support healthy, happy, successful AI/AN children and families through home visiting services.
- Continue to build the evidence base for home visiting in tribal communities.
- Support coordination among early childhood programs serving AI/AN families and development of early childhood systems.
Funding Information
- Expected total program funding: $3,000,000
- Minimum award amount for the first budget period (award floor): $250,000
- Maximum award amount for the first budget period (award ceiling): $1,000,000
- They plan to fund a 63-month project period with one 15-month budget period followed by four 12-month budget periods.
Required Activities
- This program’s required activities are intended to support tribal- and locally-driven decision making. Funded projects must be high quality, evidence based, and culturally responsive to their communities.
- If you receive a Tribal MIECHV award:
- You will conduct a community needs and readiness assessment (CNRA) of at-risk tribal communities. Your CNRA must engage all relevant community members and interested parties (for example, tribal council, health services, social services, early childhood services, schools, and culture departments).
- You will plan your home visiting program in collaboration with relevant partners to develop its capacity and infrastructure.
- You will carry out high-quality home visiting programs in at-risk tribal communities that are evidence based and culturally responsive.
- Your program must serve parents and families of young children aged birth to kindergarten entry, as well as families who are expecting a baby.
- Your program must comprehensively address families’ needs.
- You will engage in activities to support stronger early childhood systems and cross-program collaboration in tribal communities.
- You will support the mental and behavioral health of children, families, and program staff. Your program must include infant and early childhood mental health consultation.
- You will conduct performance measurement activities and develop or update a data system and mechanism to measure, track, and report on progress toward meeting legislatively mandated benchmarks for participants.
- You will complete activities for continuous quality improvement (CQI).
Eligibility Criteria
- These types of organizations are eligible for an award:
- Eligible applicants are federally recognized Indian tribes (or consortia of tribes), tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations:
- “Indian tribe” means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community that is eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians. This includes any eligible Alaska Native village, group, or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688).
- “Tribal organization” can mean the elected governing body of any Indian tribe. It can also mean any legally established organization of Indians that is controlled by one or more such bodies or by a board of directors elected or selected by one or more such bodies. Alternatively, the board of directors can be elected by the Indian population to be served by the legally established organization. Tribal organizations must include the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of their activities.
- “Urban Indian organization” means a nonprofit corporate body situated in an urban center, governed by an urban Indian-controlled board of directors, and providing for the maximum participation of all interested Indian groups and individuals. Urban Indian organizations must be capable of legally cooperating with other public and private entities to perform the activities described in section 503(a).
- Eligible applicants are federally recognized Indian tribes (or consortia of tribes), tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations:
- Individuals, including sole proprietorships, and foreign entities are not eligible.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.