93.086: Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants

93.086

Active

Administration for Children and Families (ACF) [HHS]

Sept. 9, 2022

Sept. 9, 2022

The funds awarded under the HMRF appropriation (which includes funds for Tribal TANF-Child Welfare (TTCW)) have three objectives: (1) To fund Healthy Marriage (HM) Promotion projects that provide a broad array of healthy marriage promotion activities and services designed to integrate skills-based healthy marriage education, along with additional services to address relationship skills and job and career advancement opportunities, for adults (age 18 and older); as well as projects that provide a broad array of healthy marriage promotion services designed to support healthy relationships and marriage, including the value of marriage in future family formation and skills-based healthy relationship and marriage education to youth in high school (grades 9-12), high-school-aged youth (ages 14-17), and/or youth in late adolescence to early adulthood (ages 18-24); (2) To fund Responsible Fatherhood (RF) promotion projects designed to provide a broad array of services to promote or sustain healthy marriage and relationships (including couple and co-parenting), strengthen positive father-child engagement, and improve employment and economic stability opportunities for adult fathers (ages 18 and older); and (3) To fund demonstration projects designed to test the effectiveness of tribal governments or tribal consortia in coordinating the provision to tribal families at risk of child abuse or neglect of child welfare services and services under tribal programs.

B - Project Grants (Discretionary)

Under the Healthy Marriage Promotion provision of the authorizing legislation, all public and private entities are eligible to apply (including, but not limited to, state, territorial, local, and quasi-governmental agencies, Native American tribal governments and tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, independent school districts, public, private or Tribal institutions of higher education, and for-profit entities). Eligible applicants under Responsible Fatherhood provision of the authorizing legislation include: states, territories, Native American tribes and tribal organizations (including state, territorial, and tribal post-secondary educational institutions), and public and nonprofit community entities (including religious organizations and public and private nonprofit post-secondary educational institutions). The Responsible Fatherhood provision of the authorizing legislation, however, does not permit for-profit entities to be eligible to receive funds (including, but not limited to, for-profit businesses, corporations, agencies or organizations, or for-profit institutions of higher education, trade, or technical schools). Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under both the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood promotion provisions of the authorizing legislation. The eligible applicants under the Tribal TANF and Child Welfare Services program are: Indian tribes and Alaska Native regional non-profits that administer a Tribal TANF program or a consortia of two or more Indian tribes that administers a Tribal TANF program. For all programs under this listing: Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorship) and foreign entities are not eligible.

Persons who may benefit from the assistance includes, individuals, couples, and youth in need of assistance with Healthy Marriage services. For the Responsible Fatherhood programs, beneficiaries are fathers (with children who are up to age 24) interested in Responsible Fatherhood activities, including parenting education, economic stability services, and marriage and relationship education (grantees may not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, disability, or religion) . Tribal TANF Child Welfare funds assist in the efforts to enhance and expand the ability of States, Native American governments, local governments, for-profit organizations, non-profit community organizations and other public entities to provide family formation and responsible fatherhood services to those in need.

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