Hospital-Based Adoption-Sensitive Care Training

Background
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity is to improve access to training and technical assistance (T/TA) on adoption-sensitive care. The T/TA is targeted for hospital-based service providers, doctors, nurses, and staff who provide pregnancy or adoption information and referrals. Such activities will help ensure that expectant parents who wish to place a child for adoption have access to appropriately trained staff and comprehensive supports throughout the adoption process. CB, an agency within the Administration for Children and Families under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has a long history of awarding funds to organizations to develop and implement programs to train healthcare staff in providing adoption information and referrals to expectant parents.

Grant Details
The recipient will provide T/TA to hospital staff using the existing Understanding Infant Adoption curriculum, or an equivalent, in accordance with Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program (IAATP) best-practice guidelines. The recipient will collaborate with the Children’s Bureau’s clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway, to maintain a public website with the training materials and other adoption resources. The project will utilize the UIA Curriculum or an equivalent curriculum that adheres to IAATP best-practice guidelines. The selected curriculum should build and develop the capacity and increase the comfort level of hospital staff to provide expectant parents with information and counseling on adoption, and other available options, in a nondirective and noncoercive manner necessary to make an informed decision.

Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be a health care-based, nonprofit education organization focused on adoption that partners with healthcare professionals, hospitals, and community organizations. All entities with a non-profit status are eligible. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible.

Period of Performance
The project period is 24 months starting on 09/30/2024.

Grant Value
$1,000,000 is the estimated total funding for one award under this opportunity. The award ceiling is $1,000,000 per project period with an average projected award amount of $1,000,000 per project period.

Place of Performance
The grant will be performed at hospital-based service providers across the country.