Reflective Supervision in Home Visiting Research Awards
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- HHS-2026-ACF-OPRE-PV-0114
- Agency
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Administration for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- $200,000 to $330,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Categories
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Opportunity Zone Benefits
- Eligible applicants
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- Small Businesses
- Special District Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Independent School Districts
- For Profit Organizations
- County Governments
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- City/Township Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- Public or Indian Housing Auth.
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- State Governments
- Points of contact
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- Nicole Denmark nicole.denmark@acf.hhs.gov (202) 205-4653
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is soliciting applications for Reflective Supervision in Home Visiting Research Awards to support research projects using the Supervisory Practices in Reflective Supervision-Home Visiting (SuPRS-HV) measure, with applications due August 24, 2026.
Eligible applicants include small businesses, nonprofits (501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), higher education institutions (public and private), state and local governments, county governments, city and township governments, tribal governments and organizations, independent school districts, special district governments, and public or Indian housing authorities. Individuals, federal entities, and foreign entities are not eligible.
Applicants must partner with at least one home visiting program funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and collect primary data using the SuPRS-HV measure. Projects must address one or more of the following: advancing measurement of reflective supervision; understanding how reflective supervision practices affect outcomes for home visitors, visitor-family relationships, or families; developing tools to help programs use SuPRS-HV for performance monitoring or quality improvement; or describing variation in reflective supervision practices across communities, staff characteristics, or populations served. All findings must be published in open-access forums and shared with the field.
Total program funding is $990,000 distributed across three awards, with individual award ceilings ranging from $200,000 to $330,000. The project period is two years with one budget period. Expected award date is September 29, 2026.
Merit review allocates 110 points across six criteria: Purpose and Need (20 points), Response (40 points), Dissemination (15 points), Organizational Capacity (15 points), Budget (10 points), and ACF Priority Alignment (10 points). An optional notice of intent is due August 7, 2026.
The opportunity is assigned to CFDA 93.320, Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Research and Evaluation Grants.
Synopsis
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) plans to solicit applications for Reflective Supervision in Home Visiting Research Awards. This funding opportunity will support projects that use the Supervisory Practices in Reflective Supervision-Home Visiting (SuPRS-HV) (https://acf.gov/opre/report/measure-manual-supervisor-practices-reflective-supervision-home-visiting-suprs-hv) measure to research and evaluate reflective supervision in early childhood home visiting. These awards will support partnerships with home visiting programs, including at least one funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Program (MIECHV) to do one or more of the following: 1) Further how reflective supervision is measured (e.g., explore additional aspects of the validity not explored in the measure development, adapt the measure for supervisees, validate against observational measures); 2) Use SuPRS-HV to understand how reflective supervision practices may affect outcomes (e.g., for home visitors, for home visitor-family relationships, or for families); 3) Develop tools to help home visiting programs use SuPRS-HV to improve practice (e.g., for monitoring performance or quality improvement); and/or 4) Use SuPRS-HV to describe how reflective supervision practices vary (e.g., by communities, staff characteristics, populations served). Findings from these projects will inform early childhood home visiting policy, practice, or research and help people in the field better understand reflective supervision practices.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| HHS-2026-ACF-OPRE-PV-0114 Instructions a.pdf |
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