Ssbg-2026 - social services block grant

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services $124.701 million in Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) formula assistance on October 1, 2025, through the Social Services Block Grant program (CFDA 93.667), with period of performance through September 30, 2027.

The SSBG provides flexible funding enabling states and territories to tailor social service programming to population needs. North Carolina uses these funds to support adoption services, foster care services, family support programs, and child protective services, along with other social services directed toward reducing dependency, promoting self-sufficiency, and protecting vulnerable children and adults from neglect, abuse, and exploitation.

The recipient, NC DHHS Central Administration, distributes SSBG funds as pass-through sub-awards to 100 North Carolina counties and county social services departments, which administer the programs at the local level. Obligated amount is $124.701 million. Place of performance is North Carolina.

Sub-recipients receiving SSBG sub-awards dated July 29, 2026, include all 100 North Carolina counties, including Cabarrus, Richmond, Jackson, Burke, Pitt, Bladen, New Hanover, Wilson, Vance, Gaston, Warren, Union, Mecklenburg, McDowell, Polk, Randolph, Scotland, Rowan, Stanly, Perquimans, Washington, Sampson, Pasquotank, Vance, Wake, Rockingham, Pamlico, Orange, Moore, New Hanover, Northampton, Robeson, Yancey, Swain, Rutherford, Beaufort, Surry, Robeson, Yancey, Stanly, Randolph, Pender, Person, Nash, Onslow, Jones, Lenoir, Northampton, Robeson, Robeson, Robeson, Yadkin, Wilson, Vance, Warren, Union, Rockingham, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Vance, Transylvania, Scotland, Swain, Rutherford, and others. Each sub-award supports county-level delivery of adoption services, foster care, family support programs, child protective services, and related social services to local residents. County entities serve as the administrative and service-delivery arm for SSBG programming in their jurisdictions.