Cooperative Agreement 90FA3012
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded a $1.799 million cooperative agreement to Texas Christian University on September 30, 2026, under the Adoption Opportunities program (CFDA 93.652) to evaluate the Trust-Based Relational Intervention Early Childhood Home Visiting Program for adoptive families. The award funds a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial evaluating TBRI-HV, an in-home parent skill-based intervention designed to support...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the University of Texas at Arlington a $1,799,619 cooperative agreement on September 30, 2026, under the Adoption Opportunities program (CFDA 93.652) to evaluate the effectiveness of KEEP Toddler, an in-home, virtually delivered parent skill-based intervention for adoptive families with children ages 2–4. The study employs a randomized controlled trial design across Region 3 of Texas (19 counties in...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded a cooperative agreement totaling $1.8 million to the University of Kansas Center For Research Inc. on September 30, 2026, under the Adoption Opportunities program (CFDA 93.652). The award funds an evaluation of the Behavioral Interventionist (BI) Program for adoptive families. The study employs a quasi-experimental design to assess the BI program's effectiveness in improving challenging child behavior,...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the National Opinion Research Center a $1,050,586.43 Cooperative Agreement on September 30, 2026, under the Adoption Opportunities program (CFDA 93.652) to evaluate the effectiveness of the Illinois Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (ASAP) program. The recipient will conduct a quasi-experimental evaluation of ASAP services among adoptive families formed through child welfare adoption and...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services $348.96 million in Adoption Assistance block grant funding on October 1, 2025, under CFDA 93.659. The award funds Federal Financial Participation in adoption subsidy costs for children with special needs who cannot be reunited with their families. The period of performance runs through September 30, 2026, with place of performance in Texas. The...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services $599,998 through Cooperative Agreement 90CA1908 on September 30, 2026, under the Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities program (CFDA 93.670). The award funds a comprehensive review and enhancement of DFPS's Predictive Risk Modeling (PRM) Family Investigation Risk Assessment Instrument, a scoring tool caseworkers use at the end of child...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded a $1.6 million Cooperative Agreement (90CO1148) to the American Public Human Services Association on September 30, 2026, under the Adoption Opportunities program (CFDA 93.652). The award funds nationwide implementation of the National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise (NEICE), a secure data exchange system that modernizes the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) process. NEICE...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the Utah Department of Health and Human Services $27.322 million on October 1, 2025, through the Adoption Assistance program (CFDA 93.659), a block grant providing Federal Financial Participation to states for adoption subsidy costs for children with special needs who cannot be reunited with their families. The Utah DHHS acts as the state-level pass-through entity, distributing funds to county...
- The Texas Department of Family & Protective Services was awarded a $3,268,000 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 number of...
- The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded $172.855 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Children and Families on October 1, 2025, under the Adoption Assistance federal block grant program (CFDA 93.659). The award funds adoption subsidy costs for children with special needs who cannot be reunited with their families. Massachusetts DCF administers the grant under a Title IV-E plan approved by the ACF Regional Child Welfare...
The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $1.8 million Cooperative Agreement on September 30, 2026, under the Adoption Opportunities program (CFDA 93.652) to evaluate the Beneath the Mask Teen Group intervention for adoptive families. The award funds a randomized controlled trial testing an 8-session virtual therapeutic group model designed for adopted adolescents, complemented by parallel caregiver sessions. The intervention addresses identity exploration, difference and loss, adoption narratives, loyalty, and permanence to enhance family cohesion and reduce post-adoption disruption. The study will enroll 240 adolescents adopted at least three years prior, randomized to either treatment or control (services as usual), with data collection at baseline, immediate post-test, 6-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up across two geographic sites: Texas and the Washington, DC metro area. The period of performance runs from September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2030. The University of Texas System is the parent organization of UT Austin, the direct recipient.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.8m | 8/11/26 |