Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2018 ACF ACYF CT 1350
The Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) funding opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), under ACYF/Children's Bureau. Its core purpose is to fund a single national institute that can strengthen the child welfare workforce and the organizations that employ and support that workforce, with the larger federal goal of improving outcomes for children and families in child welfare systems. The grant is built around the idea that better-prepared, better-supported, and better-retained professionals lead to stronger practice, more stable agencies, and, ultimately, improved safety, permanency, and well-being for children and youth.
NCWWI is positioned as a national leadership and capacity-building hub rather than a small, local training project. The institute is expected to advance the field across several major areas. One priority is demonstrating how partnerships with universities can directly support workforce development, which typically includes strengthening curriculum, field education, training pipelines, and evidence-informed professional preparation. Another major priority is implementing organizational interventions that improve recruitment and retention, focusing not just on hiring more staff but on creating work environments where staff can succeed and stay. A third focus is leadership development across the full child welfare career spectrum, meaning training and support that is relevant to frontline workers, supervisors, managers, and higher-level leaders, rather than isolating leadership training to a single job category. The institute is also expected to develop cross-system approaches that improve outcomes, reflecting the reality that child welfare intersects with courts, behavioral health, education, substance use treatment, and other systems that influence family and child outcomes. Finally, the institute must help build the evidence base for best practices in workforce development by identifying what works, under what conditions, and how it can be implemented effectively.
The required activities emphasize comprehensive workforce development that integrates organizational change, education, and professional development, explicitly building on lessons from the prior two iterations of NCWWI. A central expectation is the use of effective organizational interventions that measurably improve agency climate and workforce outcomes. The opportunity highlights practical targets such as reducing emotional stress and burnout, increasing job tenure and length of stay, improving worker attitudes and satisfaction, and strengthening recruitment results. Beyond implementing interventions, the institute must show strong capability in collecting, packaging, and disseminating information about effective and promising workforce practices in innovative and accessible ways, so that knowledge can be used broadly across the field rather than remaining isolated within participating sites.
A major distinguishing feature of this opportunity is the emphasis on rigorous evaluation. The project must include an intensive, structured research design that evaluates the impact of each major component of the institute's work, along with a cross-site evaluation intended to build generalizable knowledge about what elements matter most when implementing a comprehensive workforce development model. The evaluation is not framed as optional or purely descriptive; it is intended to generate a body of evidence that can inform replication, scaling, and future federal and state workforce investments. In addition to workforce and organizational outcomes, the institute is expected to demonstrate downstream improvements for children and youth in care, including safety, well-being, permanency, and placement stability, reinforcing the link between workforce functioning and child and family outcomes.
Eligibility is limited to institutions of higher education, including public/state-controlled and private institutions, reflecting the program's emphasis on university partnerships, training infrastructure, and research capacity. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically signals substantial federal involvement and ongoing collaboration with the awarding agency during implementation. The total project period is 60 months, organized into five 12-month budget periods. The opportunity anticipates a single award, with an award ceiling of $4,800,000. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2018-ACF-ACYF-CT-1350, associated with CFDA 93.648, and it was originally posted March 22, 2018, with an application due date of May 23, 2018 (electronically submitted applications due by 11:59 p.m. ET).Apply for HHS 2018 ACF ACYF CT 1350
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.648.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 22, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 23, 2018 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $4,800,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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