Organized around impact: safer children, stronger families, and a home for every child - project title: organized around impact: safer children, stronger families, and a home for every child…

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency a $600,000 cooperative agreement on September 30, 2026, under the Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities program (CFDA 93.670).

CFSA will serve as a national demonstration site for the responsible design, implementation, testing, validation, and monitoring of predictive analytics in child welfare. The agency will deploy five predictive artificial intelligence capabilities spanning service needs predictions, placement stability scoring, and maltreatment recurrence predictions. These models address high-stakes safety, service, and placement decisions that CFSA must make under limited time and information; the agency currently operates with a 29 percent vacancy rate in its Office of Hotline & Investigations and experiences a maltreatment recurrence rate of 9.7 percent. CFSA manages the Stronger Together Against Abuse and Neglect in DC (STAAND) comprehensive child welfare information system built by Microsoft and served 669 children in foster care, 2,037 children through in-home services, and screened 3,799 hotline maltreatment reports in fiscal year 2025.

The period of performance runs 36 months through September 29, 2029. Work is performed in Washington, D.C.

Organized around impact: safer children, stronger families, and a home for every child - project title: organized around impact: safer children, stronger families, and a home for every child applicant: district of columbia child and family services agency (CFSA) address: 200 I street, SE, washington, D.C. 20003-3317 •