Federal Grant Award Summary

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families awarded Human Services Vermont Agency Of a formula grant of $100,000 under the Grants to States for Access and Visitation Programs (CFDA 93.597) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This two-year award supports Vermont's establishment and administration of programs that facilitate non-custodial parents' access to and visitation with their children.

Under this grant, the awardee delivers a range of services and activities designed to support parent-child relationships and shared parenting arrangements, including mediation (voluntary and mandatory), counseling, parent education, development of parenting plans, visitation enforcement (monitoring, supervision, and neutral drop-off/pick-up services), and development of guidelines for visitation and alternative custody arrangements. The funding allocation is determined by formula based on the number of children in Vermont living with only one biological parent, with the grant amount capped at the lesser of 90 percent of state expenditures for these activities or the state's formula allotment. The award must supplement, rather than supplant, existing state expenditures for similar activities, and all program records and activities are subject to HHS's Uniform Administrative Requirements under 2 CFR Part 200.