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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Child Care, Child/Youth Welfare, Early Childhood, Family Support, Low-Income Families
Deadline: Sept. 21, 2020
“The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces the availability of approximately $100 million to be competitively awarded for the purpose of expanding access to high-quality, comprehensive services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families through Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, or through the expansion of Early Head Start services.
New or existing Head Start, EHS, and EHS-CC Partnership grantees can apply to use funding to partner with local child care, including family child care providers to provide comprehensive, high-quality services to eligible infants and toddlers through EHS-CC Partnerships. These EHS-CC Partnerships will enhance and support early learning settings to provide full-day, full-year, comprehensive services that meet the needs of low-income working families; enhance access to high-quality, full-time child care; support the development of infants and toddlers through strong relationship-based experiences; and prepare them for the transition into preschool. EHS-CC Partnerships play an important role in the child care system by both expanding high-quality early learning services to infants and toddlers and applying resources and lessons learned from EHS to build the system’s capacity.
All grantees funded through this FOA must provide high-quality, comprehensive services. HHS has a goal of ensuring that funding available under this announcement supports robust competition for both non-partnership EHS Expansion and EHS-CC Partnership models. Based on the strategic plan and community assessment, applicants will propose an approach that responds to the greatest needs of families in the community, including the need for increased access to full-time, stable, high-quality, comprehensive child development services for working families. Having high-quality infant and toddler care is particularly important, and often is lacking, in areas with high concentrations of poverty. All applicants should consider the birth-to-five continuum of care and education in developing their proposals. Grantees are expected to leverage resources from existing community agencies that provide early learning services – including early intervention, home visiting, and preschool programs – that will support children from birth through kindergarten entry.”
Funder: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Eligibility: “Eligible applicants are any public or private non-profit agencies, including community-based and faith-based organizations, or for-profit agencies pursuant to Section 645A(d) of the Head Start Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9840A(d). Entities operating Head Start programs are eligible to operate Early Head Start programs. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.”
Amount: $750,000+
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