Federal Grant Award Summary

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Kentucky's Health Services Cabinet a formula grant of $126,528.00 under the Grants to States for Access and Visitation Programs (CFDA 93.597) for the two-year performance period from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award supports Kentucky's establishment and administration of programs designed to facilitate non-custodial parents' access to and visitation with their children.

Through this funding, the Health Services Cabinet will deliver a range of services and activities including mediation, counseling, education, development of parenting plans, visitation enforcement with monitoring and supervision, and development of guidelines for visitation and alternative custody arrangements. The formula grant allocation is determined by the number of children in Kentucky living with only one biological parent relative to the national total, consistent with statutory funding mechanisms under 42 U.S.C. § 669b. The Cabinet is required to maintain state expenditure levels at or above fiscal year 1995 baseline levels and ensure that grant funds supplement rather than supplant existing state activities in this program area.