Grant Announcement: Adoption and Marriage Education

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Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau
Funding Opportunity Title:
Demonstration Projects in Post-Adoption Services and Marriage Education

DUE DATE for applications: July 21, 2006

Funding Opportunity Number:
HHS-2006-ACF-ACYF-CO-0134

CFDA Number: 
93.652

Executive Summary: 
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support continuous
innovation and improvement in the quality of post-adoption services
designed to improve outcomes for adopted children and their families.
Funded projects will implement and evaluate post-adoption services with
A PRIMARY EMPHASIS ON MARRIAGE EDUCATION.

These post-adoption demonstration projects will provide services to
strengthen and preserve families who have adopted children from public
child welfare systems. The services provided must add to, not take the
place of, services supported by any other funds available to the
applicant for the same general services.

These projects will implement and evaluate an articulated, specifiable
program that helps adoptive parents build healthy marriages. The program
must promote healthy marriage and family formation as a means of
achieving safety, permanency, and well-being for children adopted from
public child welfare systems and their families. By supporting adoptive
couples through marriage-strengthening services, parents are expected to
be better able to meet the unique stresses of adopting a child. Marriage
education services that are provided will work to strengthen and protect
the well-being of both children and families.


 
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