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HHS-2024-ACF-ACYF-CO-0019: Hospital-Based Adoption-Sensitive Care Training

Closed Closed August 21, 2024 Opportunity HHS-2024-ACF-ACYF-CO-0019 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Award floor$750,000
• Total funding$1.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits.

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

All entities with a nonprofit status are eligible. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit 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. Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of 45 CFR Part 87 and 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., ACF will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization's religious character, affiliation, or exercise.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Adoption Opportunities awards averaged $7.9 million; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (89% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to award one 24-month project to improve access to training and technical assistance (T/TA) on adoption-sensitive care. The T/TA is targeted for hospital-based service providers, doctors, nurses, and staff who provide pregnancy or adoption information and referrals. The recipient will provide T/TA to hospital staff using the existing Understanding Infant Adoption curriculum, or an equivalent, in accordance with Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program best-practice guidelines. Such activities will help ensure that expectant parents who wish to place a child for adoption have access to appropriately trained staff and comprehensive supports throughout the adoption process. The recipient will collaborate with the Children’s Bureau’s clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway, to maintain a public website with the training materials and other adoption resources. Applicants, according to the Explanatory Statement accompanying Public Law 118-47 associated with the appropriation of these funds, must be a (1) health care-based, nonprofit education organization (2) focused on adoption, that (3) partners with healthcare professionals, hospitals, and community organizations. This NOFO has been modified. Changes were made to the Application Package and HHS Award Agency Contact(s).

Category: Income Security and Social Services.

Applying now

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