Tribal Child Support Innovation Grants: Building Family-Centered Services

Post Date

June 13th 2014

Application Due Date

August 12th 2014

Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.

Funding Opportunity Number

HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FI-0591

CFDA Number(s)

93.601

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Income Security and Social Services

Number of Awards

8

Eligibility Categories

Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments

Eligibility is limited to tribal Title IV-D child support agencies operating comprehensive programs. Applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility by submitting a copy with their applications of the letter from the OCSE Commissioner, confirming administration of a comprehensive program. This letter must be signed on or by June 1, 2014. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $200000

• Award Range:

  $15000 - $50000

Grant Description

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will make awards under the Tribal Innovation Grant (TIG) program to eligible tribal IV-D agencies to improve their capacity to administer innovative, family-centered child support services that help parents provide reliable support for their children as they grow up. This includes strategies such as early intervention, establishing and maintaining realistic child support orders, reducing unmanageable child support debt, promoting noncustodial parents’ positive engagement in the lives of their children, increasing noncustodial parent employment and family economic stability, improving family relationships, promoting children’s health, collaborating to reduce family violence, and preventing the need for child support services in the first place. Collaborations with state IV-D agencies will also be considered, as well as other programmatic and operational innovations. Please note that this synopsis has been updated to indicate that OCSE expects to make TIG awards in fiscal year 2014, rather than 2013 as was previously forecasted.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Administration for Children and Families

• Agency Contact:

  ACF Applications Help Desk
  app_support@acf.hhs.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  ACF Applications Help Desk

• Agency Email Address:

  app_support@acf.hhs.gov

• Location:

  Administration for Children and Families - OCSE

• More Information:

  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FI-0591