Adptasst-2026 - adoption assistance

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the Kansas Department for Children and Families $69.828 million on October 1, 2025, under the Adoption Assistance program (CFDA 93.659) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. The award provides Federal Financial Participation to support adoption subsidy costs for the adoption of children with special needs who cannot be reunited with their families. Performance takes place in Kansas.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families serves as the state administrator and prime recipient, passing through funding to sub-recipients that deliver child welfare services to children in foster care across departmental catchment areas. Saint Francis Community and Residential Services, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Salina, Kansas, received sub-awards effective July 1, 2026, to provide an array of child welfare services for children in foster care in DCF catchment areas 1 and 2. Emberhope Inc., doing business as Youthville, a nonprofit faith-based agency, received a sub-award effective July 1, 2026, to provide child welfare services for children in foster care in DCF catchment area 7.

Quarterly awards are made on the basis of estimated expenditures and later revised to include only actual allowable claimed expenditures. Quarterly estimates are due July 30, October 30, January 30, and April 30 each year. Awards remain effective without plan renewal, though Title IV-E plans may be amended as necessary.