2026 tanf

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the Kansas Department for Children and Families $253.694 million on October 1, 2025, under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program (CFDA 93.558) for the period of performance ending September 30, 2026. The TANF program assists needy families with children, promotes employment and self-sufficiency, and encourages family formation and stability through direct financial assistance and employment services in Kansas.

Kansas Department for Children and Families administers the award through its Office of Financial Management and distributes funding to sub-recipients delivering employment and economic support services, early childhood programs, family preservation services, child welfare services, youth mentoring and academic support, and evaluation services. Sub-recipients include Heartland Regional Alcohol & Drug Assessment Center providing Solutions Recovery Care Coordination services for TANF recipients with substance use disorder issues; multiple organizations (Sparkwheel Inc., KVC Behavioral Healthcare, International Rescue Committee, Connections To Success, and Kansas Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs) providing intergenerational programming and family services to at-risk, low-income families; eight school districts and early childhood providers (Clay County Child Care Center, Hays Unified School District 489, Dodge City Unified School District 443, Salina Unified School District 305, East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation, Northwest Kansas EDU Service Center, and Kansas Children's Service League) delivering Kansas Early Head Start Home Visitation and Early Head Start Child Care Partnership services; Jobs For America's Graduates and Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters providing academic support and mentoring for at-risk youth; TFI Family Services, Cornerstones of Care, Dccca Inc., and others delivering family preservation services across Kansas Department for Children and Families regions; child placing agencies (Emberhope Inc., Saint Francis Community and Residential Services, and KVC Behavioral Healthcare) providing foster care and adoption services for children in state custody; Foster Adopt Connect providing kinship and relative caregiver support; O'Connell Children's Shelter providing whole-family services to at-risk families; Kansas Children's Service League providing foster care prevention services; and Kansas Housing Resources Corporation providing statewide homelessness prevention services. University of Kansas Center for Research provides evaluation services for family resource centers, and University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute provides Kansas Early Head Start Home Visitation and Early Head Start Child Care Partnership services. Place of performance is Kansas.