Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants

Objective

This program works on strengthening families, with a range of different approaches. Under the HEART (Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive) opportunity, projects support activities to promote healthy marriages and/or relationships to ultimately strengthen families. Under the READY4Life (Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life) opportunity, projects provide comprehensive services that help youth build healthy relationship skills now and for the future (including dating, marriage, and co-parenting) while supporting positive socioemotional development and successful transitions to young adulthood. Under the FORGE (Family, Opportunity, Resilience, Grit, Engagement) Fatherhood opportunity, projects support activities to promote responsible fatherhood under each of three broad categories of promoting or sustaining marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities. For the Child Welfare Services to Tribal Families at Risk of Child Abuse or Neglect Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child Welfare (TTCW) opportunity, projects support Tribal governments in designing and implementing demonstration projects that strengthen collaboration between TANF and Child Welfare systems.

Who Can Apply

• Not-for-Profit Organization
• For-Profit Organization
• Tribal
• State
• Territorial
• Local
• Public Housing Authority
• Other Local Government Consortium, Regional Organization (Intrastate), or Other Local Government Combination
• County Government (inclusive of boroughs in Alaska, parishes and other governmental entities with geographic regional control and authority)
• Municipality or Township government (inclusive of cities, towns, boroughs (except in Alaska), and villages)
• Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized)
• Federally Recognized Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government
• U.S. State Government (including the District of Columbia)
• U.S. Territory (or Possession) Government (including freely-associated states)

Under the Healthy Marriage Promotion provision of the legislation, all public and private entities are eligible to apply (including, state, territorial, local, and quasi-governmental agencies, Native American tribal governments and tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, independent school districts, public, private or Tribal institutions of higher education, and for-profit entities). Eligible applicants under Responsible Fatherhood include: states, territories, Native American tribes and tribal organizations, and public and nonprofit community entities (including public and private nonprofit post-secondary educational institutions). Individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible. The eligible applicants under the Tribal TANF and Child Welfare Services program are: Indian tribes and Alaska Native regional non-profits that administer a Tribal TANF program or a consortia of two or more Indian tribes.

Who Benefits

• Teen (13-19)
• Adult (20 to 64)
• Senior Citizen (65+)

Persons who may benefit from the assistance includes, individuals, couples, and youth in need of assistance with Healthy Marriage services. For the Responsible Fatherhood programs, beneficiaries are fathers (with children who are up to age 24) interested in Responsible Fatherhood activities, including parenting education, economic stability services, and marriage and relationship education (recipients may not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, disability, or religion) . Tribal TANF Child Welfare funds assist in the efforts to enhance and expand the ability of tribes and tribal consortia to assist tribal families at risk of child abuse or neglect of child welfare services and services under tribal TANF.

Assistance Types

• Grant
• Grant
• Grant

Program Contact

seth.chamberlain@acf.hhs.gov
202-260-2242