Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites

Background
The Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites funding opportunity aims to fund 6 sites for five-year projects of national significance to demonstrate integrated, cross-sector approaches that engage communities in developing child and family well-being systems. The projects will work to improve overall child and family well-being by strengthening the whole family and reducing the likelihood of child maltreatment and unnecessary contact with the formal child welfare system.

Grant Details
The projects will develop approaches to work directly with families, communities, and a broad array of stakeholders across the public, private, faith-based, and philanthropic sectors to design and implement highly coordinated and comprehensive family support systems that will mitigate the causes of family vulnerability by enhancing community protective factors and parental protective capacities in racially and culturally appropriate ways.
The projects will be informed by primary prevention approaches articulated in ACYF-CB-IM-18-05 and ensure the centrality of family and youth voice as described in ACYF-CB-IM-19-03.
The sites will be required to conduct individual qualitative and quantitative evaluations and participate in a nationally significant cross-site evaluation.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning, public or other nonprofit agencies and organizations engaged in research or child-welfare activities. Faith-based organizations may also apply. There is a disqualification factor for applicants who are not the public child welfare agency.

Period of Performance
The project period is 60 months with five 12-month budget periods.
The anticipated project start date is 09/30/2021.

Grant Value
The total estimated funding for this opportunity is $4,500,000, with an expected number of 6 awards.
The award ceiling is $750,000 per budget period with an award floor of $500,000 per budget period.

Place of Performance
The target area for project implementation is a geographic area, community, or region that would benefit from or could build upon existing cross-system, integrated networks of community-based primary prevention services and supports with a focus on traditionally underserved communities where neglect is often confused with poverty.