Collaborative Approaches to Adoption for Children with Complex Needs

Summary

This funding opportunity aims to support innovations that build evidence on how to help children and youth with complex or high-acuity needs achieve permanency through adoption. The projects will focus on collaborative, system-level efforts to recruit, train, support, and retain families who can meet these children's needs.Projects must be led by researchers who work within a child welfare agency or work in close partnership with one or more child welfare agencies. Together, researchers and child welfare program staff will identify and evaluate promising collaborative approaches.Collaborations that include Medicaid Section 1115 Research and Demonstration Projects, private adoption agencies, or community- or faith-based organizations are of particular interest.You'll be expected to: (1) Study how the model works in practice (i.e., implementation study). (2) Evaluate the effectiveness of the approach. (3) Use the most rigorous research designs, methods, and analytic techniques that are appropriate and sufficient to address the research questions of interest.Projects are expected to build on the existing research evidence and contribute generalized knowledge.

Eligibility

• For Profit Organizations Other Than Small Businesses
• Native American Tribal Organizations Other Than Federally Recognized Tribal Governments
• Native American Tribal Governments Federally Recognized
• City Or Township Governments
• Nonprofits Non Higher Education Without 501c3
• Other
• Small Businesses
• State Governments
• Nonprofits Having A 501(c)(3) Status With the Irs Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
• Public and State Institutions of Higher Education
• County Governments
• Special District Governments
• Private Institutions of Higher Education
• Public and Indian Housing Authorities
• Independent School Districts

Funding categories

• Income Security and Social Services