National Center on Child Maltreatment Fatality Data Practices and Reporting | HHS 2025 ACF ACYF CA 0074

Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2025 ACF ACYF CA 0074

The National Center on Child Maltreatment Fatality Data Practices and Reporting is a discretionary funding opportunity from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Children s Bureau (CB), aimed at reducing child deaths caused by abuse or neglect by strengthening how these fatalities are counted, documented, analyzed, and shared across systems. The underlying problem the NOFO is trying to address is that prevention depends on clear, complete, and comparable information about when and why child maltreatment fatalities occur. When states and jurisdictions have gaps in reporting, inconsistent definitions, or limited ability to connect data across agencies, it becomes harder to spot patterns, identify risk factors, and design prevention strategies that actually fit what is happening on the ground. This grant is meant to push that work forward by creating a single national hub that helps partners improve their data practices and use the resulting information to drive prevention, intervention, and broader child welfare system reforms.

The award will establish a National Center on Child Maltreatment Fatality Data Practices through a cooperative agreement, meaning the federal government will be an active partner in the work rather than simply issuing a hands off grant. The National Center is expected to support states, jurisdictions, and their partners, including tribes, with culturally responsive training and technical assistance (T/TA). In practice, this means helping recipients not only improve data collection and reporting methods, but also build the internal capacity and cross agency relationships needed to sustain improvements over time. A major theme throughout the opportunity is coordination: child maltreatment fatalities often touch multiple systems (child welfare, public health, law enforcement, medical examiner and coroner systems, courts, and others), so the NOFO emphasizes that better outcomes depend on agencies working from shared information and aligned processes.

The National Center s work is organized around several core objectives. These include building knowledge and capacity so states and partners can strengthen their ability to collect and interpret fatality data; increasing opportunities for cross agency cooperation and coordination to reduce silos; establishing a national resource for information sharing, learning, and dissemination so effective approaches can be replicated; supporting data practice and reporting strategies to improve consistency and usefulness of fatality related information; and evaluating the training and technical assistance provided, so the Center can measure whether its support is improving practice and outcomes. The end goal is not simply better statistics, but better prevention decision making grounded in more complete and accurate understanding of the circumstances surrounding child deaths linked to abuse or neglect.

This opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number HHS 2025 ACF ACYF CA 0074; CFDA 93.670) is open to a wide range of eligible applicants, including state, county, and local governments; tribes and tribal organizations; public and private colleges and universities; public housing authorities; nonprofit organizations (both with and without 501(c)(3) status); for profit organizations (including small businesses); and other eligible entities. Individuals, including sole proprietorships, and foreign entities are not eligible and would be disqualified. Faith based and community organizations can apply as long as they meet eligibility requirements, and ACF states it will not discriminate based on religious character, affiliation, or exercise, consistent with applicable federal protections and regulations.

The competition is expected to make a single award, with an award ceiling of $1,250,000. The original application closing date is March 19, 2025, and the opportunity was created January 14, 2025. Overall, the NOFO is designed to create a national center that can raise the standard of child maltreatment fatality data practices across the country, helping jurisdictions develop stronger, more coordinated, and more actionable information to support prevention and protect children.

• The Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Center on Child Maltreatment Fatality Data Practices and Reporting" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.670.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-14.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-19. (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 $1,250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others, Unrestricted.

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