Federal Block Grant Award Summary

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) received a $9.947 million block grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Children, Youth and Families under the Title IV-E Prevention Services Grant Program (CFDA 93.472), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. This federal funding supports time-limited prevention services designed to keep children and youth at risk of foster care entry safely within their families and communities. The program delivers evidence-based mental health treatment, substance abuse interventions, and in-home parenting skill-based programs for candidates for foster care, pregnant or parenting foster youth, and their parent or kinship caregivers, without regard to Title IV-E foster care maintenance payment eligibility.

MDHHS serves as the prime recipient and pass-through entity, distributing award funds to multiple sub-awardees across Michigan to implement prevention services at the community level. Key sub-awardees include public health departments (Luce Mackinac Health Department, Cadillac Health Department, and Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services), educational entities (Saginaw Public Schools, Kent ISD, Ingham ISD, and Saginaw ISD), non-profit service providers (Sos Community Services, Care House of Oakland County, Centers for Family Development, Starfish Family Services, and Family Futures), and healthcare providers (Hurley Medical Center). These sub-recipients provide home visiting services, substance use intervention programming, and family resource center support through both the Substance Use Home Visiting Program expansion and the Family First Prevention Services Act Home Visiting Expansion Program components, ensuring comprehensive prevention services reach vulnerable families throughout the state.