Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2019 ACF ACYF CA 1559
Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), through ACYF/Children's Bureau. It is offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally means awardees should expect an ongoing partnership with the federal project office, including regular communication, federal involvement in key decisions, and structured reporting and oversight compared with a standard grant. The program is organized under CFDA 93.670 and focuses on income security and social services, with an emphasis on strengthening families and preventing unnecessary involvement with the child welfare system.
The central goal of the opportunity is to support communities in developing, putting into practice, and evaluating strategies that prevent child maltreatment, reduce the number of children entering the public child welfare system, and improve overall well-being for children and families. The underlying approach is not limited to a single service or intervention. Instead, it emphasizes building a coordinated, community-level system of supports that can promote safety, stability, and nurturing relationships before problems escalate to the point of maltreatment reports or foster care entry. In practical terms, the program is meant to move communities toward stronger prevention infrastructure and earlier, more effective help for families.
A key feature of the funding is its multi-sector collaboration requirement. Awardees are expected to work across systems and align strategies among traditional family-serving agencies (for example, child welfare, public health, behavioral health, early childhood programs, education, housing, and workforce supports) and non-traditional partners that can influence family stability and social connectedness. The intent is to create a broader web of support than child welfare can provide alone, reduce fragmentation, and make it easier for families to access timely, culturally responsive assistance. The program also highlights the importance of identifying and addressing site-specific barriers, meaning each funded community should use local data and local experience to pinpoint what is driving risk and system involvement in that particular place, then tailor strategies accordingly.
Data use and shared accountability are central expectations. Funding is intended to help communities use data to inform decision-making, align efforts across sectors, and coordinate monitoring and reporting of both strategies and outcomes across multiple partners. This includes building the capacity to track implementation progress, measure changes in child and family well-being, and demonstrate whether prevention efforts are associated with reductions in maltreatment risk and entry into the child welfare system. The emphasis on evaluation signals that communities are expected not only to deliver supports, but also to learn from results, improve continuously, and contribute evidence about what works in community-based prevention.
The project period is five years, which supports longer-term planning, phased implementation, and meaningful evaluation rather than short-term pilot activity. The maximum award amount is $550,000 (award ceiling), and the opportunity anticipated making about eight awards. Eligible applicants are broad and include state, county, and local governments; tribal governments and tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; public and private institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status; and for-profit organizations (including small businesses), with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2019-ACF-ACYF-CA-1559, it was created April 12, 2019, and the original application deadline was June 11, 2019, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.
Overall, this opportunity is designed for communities that want to build or strengthen a coordinated prevention ecosystem: aligning partners, using data to target the biggest local barriers to family stability, expanding broad-based supports, and documenting outcomes over time with the goal of keeping children safe, strengthening parenting and caregiver relationships, and reducing avoidable entry into the child welfare system.Apply for HHS 2019 ACF ACYF CA 1559
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.670.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 12, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 11, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $550,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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