Lifespan Respite Care Program: State Program Enhancement Grants
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-LRLI-0004
- Agency
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Administration for Community Living
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- $200,000 to $400,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Eligible applicants
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- State Governments
- Points of contact
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- Kari Benson aoa.oaa@acl.hhs.gov (202) 401-4634
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Administration for Community Living (ACL), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is seeking cooperative agreements from state agencies to enhance statewide Lifespan Respite Care systems. The primary objective is to improve respite care services for family caregivers supporting children and adults across all age groups, disabilities, and chronic conditions. Applicants must demonstrate an understanding of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers and commit to key activities including expanding volunteer options, ensuring respite provider training, identifying service gaps, and targeting underserved populations. Evaluation criteria will focus on systems advancement, partnership development, service provision, community organization involvement, and benefits to disadvantaged groups. The application deadline is August 15, 2025, with the grant opportunity targeting state governments administering programs under the Older Americans Act or Medicaid.
ACL plans to fund approximately seven cooperative agreements over a 4-year project period, with an award ceiling of $400,000 per budget period and a minimum award floor of $200,000. The total estimated funding is $2,466,000, with recipients required to provide a 25% cost-sharing match. The project period will span 36 months, specifically from September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2028, divided into three 12-month budget periods. Successful applicants will collaborate with state respite organizations and coalitions to implement data collection and reporting requirements under the Lifespan Respite Reauthorization Act of 2020.
Synopsis
Eligible state agencies funded under this announcement shall use grant funds to advance the provision of respite services through their statewide Lifespan Respite Care system as outlined in The Act. The goal of the program is to enhance state systems and capacities to deliver respite care and related services to family caregivers of children and adults across all age groups, disabilities, and chronic conditions. All programs must from the outset, address the respite needs of all populations regardless of the age, disability, or chronic condition of the care recipient population. Funded applicants will continue to build collaborations and partnerships across the state and carry out key activities including expanding options for volunteers; ensuring adequate respite provider training is offered; identifying gaps in current services and conducting outreach to reduce those gaps; and continue to, or increase efforts to, target underserved populations across the lifespan. ACL will fund approximately seven (7) cooperative agreements over the course of the 4-year project period.Applications should reflect an understanding of and grounding in the principles and actions contained in the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. It is ACL"s expectation that using the Strategy as a roadmap or guide, applicants will incorporate the approaches outlined in the Strategy, as applicable, for enhancing their State Lifespan Respite Systems of care.Awardees under this funding opportunity will work with ACL to implement the data collection and reporting requirements, under Section 2904 of the Lifespan Respite Reauthorization Act of 2020.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| Foa_Content_of_HHS-2025-ACL-AOA-LRLI-0004 (1).pdf |
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