• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The purpose of this Program Instruction (PI) is to instruct tribal title IV-E agencies administering or supervising the administration of title IV-E under sections 479B and 471(a) of the Act on...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The title IV-E Guardianship Assistance Program (GAP) is a formula grant that helps States, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations and Tribal Consortia (hereafter “Tribes”) who opt to provide...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

Title IV-E Tribal Consultation Meetings  (PDF) - This is a request for public comment concerning requirements for transferring children from the placement and care responsibility of a state...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

Standing Announcement for Tribal Title IV-E Plan Development Grants - These grants are funded via a standing funding opportunity announcement (SFOA), which means that the same announcement (with...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The Children’s Bureau conducts the Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews (IV-E Reviews) to monitor Title IV-E agencies’ compliance with federally mandated requirements under Title IV, Part E,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-07-03

All title IV-E agencies (states, territories, and tribes) report financial information on a quarterly basis for the title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, Guardianship Assistance, Prevention...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The following Tribes have an approved title IV-E plan to operate a foster care, adoption assistance, and, at Tribal option, guardianship assistance program.* *Note - Tribes listed in bold are...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The Foster Care Program helps states and participating territories and Tribes to provide safe and stable out-of- home care for eligible children and youth until they are safely returned home,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) authorized new optional title IV-E funding for certain time-limited prevention services through creation of the title IV-E prevention program. On...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

The Adoption Assistance Program provides funds to states and participating territories and tribes to facilitate the timely placement of children, whose special needs or circumstances would...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

All title IV-E agencies (states, territories, and tribes) report financial information on a quarterly basis for the title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, Guardianship Assistance, Prevention...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) authorized new optional title IV-E funding for certain time-limited prevention services through creation of the title IV-E prevention program. On...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The 1994 Amendments to the Social Security Act (the Act) authorize the Children's Bureau to review state child and family services programs to ensure compliance with the requirements in titles...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The Children's Bureau conducts Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews (IV-E Reviews) of Title IV-E agencies to help monitor the agency's compliance in meeting federally mandated requirements,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This template is suggested to guide title IV-E agencies on developing a Program Improvement Plan (PIP) in response to findings of their title IV-E foster care eligibility review (IV-E...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This document is Massachusetts application for a title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration project. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This Program Instruction (PI) provides clarifying guidance to title IV-E agencies on the parameters of short-term support that may be provided to kinship families with title IV-E kinship navigator...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to remind title IV-E agencies that for all adoption assistance agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2024, eligibility for title IV-E...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This Program Instruction (PI) instructs title IV-E agencies on actions needed to receive title IV-E Kinship Navigator funding under the provisions of Section 8, Division X of P.L. 116-260. These...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-05

This recruitment flier provides information in English and Spanish about the Title IV-E foster care eligibility reviews and Peer Reviewer recruitment. Metadata-only record linking to the original...

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