The Iowa Department of Human Services, Division of Fiscal Management was awarded a $2.7 million Formula Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Payments program (CFDA 93.603) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The objective of the Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentives program is to provide incentives to states and eligible tribes to increase annually the...
The Iowa Department of Human Services (Iowa DHS) has been awarded a $208,033,932 Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. The award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, will support the state's efforts to provide affordable, high-quality child care services to low-income families in Iowa. Funds from this block grant program will be used to subsidize child care costs,...
The Iowa Department of Human Services received a $110.1 million block grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. The award, provided under the Child Care and Development Block Grant program (CFDA 93.575), will support child care and development services in Iowa from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. As the primary federal funding source to help low-income families access child care and improve quality, the CCDF block grant...
The Iowa Department of Human Services received a $888,505 Block Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.090 - Guardianship Assistance Program) for FY 2025. This funding will support the state's Guardianship Assistance Program, which provides financial assistance and case management services to help facilitate permanent legal guardianship arrangements for children who have been removed from their homes and are in the child...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a $101,004,160 Child Support Services Block Grant (CFDA 93.563) to the Iowa Department of Human Services (Iowa DHS) for the period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The purpose of this Block Grant is to enforce child support obligations by locating absent parents, establishing paternity, and obtaining child, spousal, and medical support orders. Iowa DHS, through its Division of Fiscal Management, will use these funds to...
The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded a $380,402 Block Grant to the Iowa Department of Human Services from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Children's Justice Grants to States program (CFDA #93.643). The grant aims to support Iowa's efforts to improve the assessment and investigation of suspected child abuse and neglect cases, including sexual abuse and exploitation incidents, in a manner that limits additional trauma to child...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families awarded a $52,629,664 Foster Care Title IV-E Block Grant to the Iowa Department of Human Services on October 1, 2024. This grant program provides funding to state child welfare agencies to support safe and stable out-of-home care for children until they can be safely returned home, placed with adoptive families, or transitioned to permanent living arrangements. The Iowa Department of Human Services,...
This $37,124,558 federal Adoption Assistance Block Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CFDA 93.659) supports the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare's delivery of adoption support services for children with special needs who cannot be reunited with their families. The grant funding enables the division to provide adoption subsidies, pre- and post-adoption assistance, and administrative support for adoption activities across the state. As a state-level...
The federal Block Grant award of $101,721,464.00 was provided by the Administration on Children Youth and Families (ACYF), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the Adoption Assistance program (CFDA 93.659). This grant enables the Minnesota Department of Human Services (MN DHS) to deliver comprehensive adoption support services, including adoption subsidies, pre- and post-adoption assistance, recruitment of adoptive families, and administrative support for...
This $62,774,137 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.596 - Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund) supports comprehensive childcare services for low-income families in Iowa. Funding will be used by the Iowa Department of Human Services (Iowa DHS) to provide childcare subsidies, early childhood education programs, facility improvements, child welfare services,...