Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2021 ACF ACYF CT 1914
The Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites opportunity is a discretionary federal funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Administration on Children, Youth and Families and the Children s Bureau (ACYF/CB). It was released under Funding Opportunity Number HHS 2021 ACF ACYF CT 1914 (CFDA 93.648) and uses a cooperative agreement funding instrument, which typically means the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement during the project period (for example, providing direction, coordinating learning across grantees, and supporting evaluation activities).
The program will fund six demonstration sites for intensive, five-year projects that are described as being of national significance. The central purpose is to test and demonstrate integrated, cross-sector approaches that bring communities together to build stronger child and family well-being systems. Rather than focusing only on responding after harm occurs, FSPP is explicitly framed as primary prevention, drawing on public health models and approaches. In practice, that means the projects are expected to focus upstream on conditions that contribute to family stress and vulnerability, strengthen protective factors for children and caregivers, and reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment. A key intended outcome is fewer families having unnecessary contact with the formal child welfare system because more supports and protective conditions exist before crises escalate.
A defining feature of the initiative is its emphasis on coordinated, comprehensive family support systems that are designed and implemented with broad community engagement. Funded sites are expected to work directly with families and communities while also convening and aligning a wide range of stakeholders across public agencies and systems (such as child welfare, public health, behavioral health, housing, education, and income supports) as well as private, faith-based, and philanthropic partners. The goal is not simply to add a new program, but to build a connected ecosystem of supports that can address multiple drivers of risk in families lives. The opportunity also calls for approaches that are racially and culturally appropriate, signaling that projects should be designed with attention to equity, local community context, and culturally grounded practices that strengthen parenting capacities and community protective factors in ways that fit the populations being served.
Applicants are encouraged to ground their work in existing Children s Bureau guidance, specifically ACYF-CB-IM-18-05 (as an informing reference) and ACYF-CB-IM-19-03 (as an encouraged reference). While the announcement text does not detail those documents, including this requirement signals that the agency wants sites to align with established frameworks and recommendations for primary prevention and systems-building in child and family well-being, rather than creating isolated or duplicative efforts.
Evaluation and learning are major expectations of the grant. Each FSPP site must conduct its own qualitative and quantitative evaluation, which implies documenting both measurable outcomes and implementation experiences, including how cross-sector coordination is built and sustained, how families experience the supports, what community changes occur, and what outcomes shift over time. In addition to local evaluation, each site must participate in a nationally significant cross-site evaluation. That cross-site component is intended to generate lessons that can be compared across the six locations, identify common effective strategies and implementation barriers, and build an evidence base that can inform broader replication or policy improvements.
Eligibility is broad and includes state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; tribal organizations (including those other than federally recognized tribal governments); public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education for the nonprofit categories listed). The announcement also notes an "Others" category with additional eligibility clarification referenced in the full text, suggesting that certain additional applicant types may qualify depending on the specifics provided in the complete funding notice.
Funding levels are capped at an award ceiling of $750,000, with an expectation of six total awards. The opportunity was created on May 3, 2021, with an original application closing date of July 2, 2021, and electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline. Overall, the grant is aimed at helping a small number of communities act as demonstration leaders by building durable, prevention-oriented family support systems, producing rigorous evidence about what works, and contributing to a national learning agenda on strengthening child and family well-being while reducing maltreatment risk and avoidable child welfare involvement.Apply for HHS 2021 ACF ACYF CT 1914
- 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 "Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.648.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 03, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 02, 2021 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 $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 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, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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