Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2020 ACF OCSE FD 1832

Charting a Course for Economic Mobility and Responsible Parenting is a discretionary cooperative agreement opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). It is designed to fund three-year projects that create or strengthen interventions aimed at helping teens and young adults better understand what parenting really requires, not just emotionally, but also legally and financially. The idea is to use the child support program's real-world expertise about parental obligations and child support rules to deliver practical education that can influence decision-making before someone becomes a parent.

The central goal is prevention and preparation: motivate teens and young adults to delay parenthood until they have finished their education, started moving into a stable career path, and entered a committed relationship. OCSE is not framing this as a simple awareness campaign, but as a set of interventions that combine education and motivation with pathways to concrete support. The target population is broad, covering ages 13 through 25. It includes young people who have not started families as well as unmarried young parents, recognizing that both groups may need support, information, and tools that reduce the likelihood of unstable family circumstances and long-term economic hardship.

Applicants are expected to design projects that do not operate in isolation. A key requirement is to map what services already exist in the community and then build or leverage partnerships with public and private organizations already serving similar age groups. Those partnerships should help connect the educational content about responsible parenting, paternity, and child support to additional services that promote economic stability and healthy family formation, such as education supports, job training, career services, financial capability resources, mentoring, and related family support programs. The underlying expectation is that better knowledge, when paired with access to supportive services, can lead to more durable life planning and better outcomes for young people and their children.

In terms of content, the program encourages grantees to build on what is already known to work. Projects should adapt, enhance, and expand established responsible parenting, paternity establishment, and child support awareness models, while also developing new educational materials and tools where gaps exist. That could include updated curricula, digital tools, social media outreach strategies, workshops, peer-led models, or other formats that resonate with teens and young adults. OCSE also expects that what gets developed will be shareable, meaning projects should produce materials and lessons learned that can be used by other child support agencies.

Evaluation and knowledge-sharing are built into the structure of the opportunity. Grantees are expected to prioritize partnerships with state or tribal universities to evaluate project implementation and outcomes. Beyond evaluation, grantees must be prepared to share materials, resources, intervention lessons, and promising outreach practices with other state and tribal IV-D agencies, supporting replication or adaptation across jurisdictions. This emphasis on dissemination signals that OCSE wants projects that can inform broader child support and prevention strategies, not one-off local efforts.

Eligibility is limited to state governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and other Native American tribal organizations. The opportunity was posted April 30, 2020, with an original closing date of June 29, 2020 (applications due electronically by 11:59 p.m. ET). OCSE anticipated making about 15 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000. The listed CFDA numbers are 93.563 and 93.564, and the funding activity category is Income Security and Social Services.

  • The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - OCSE in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Charting a Course for Economic Mobility and Responsible Parenting" and is now available to receive applicants.
  • Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.563, 93.564.
  • This funding opportunity was created on Apr 30, 2020.
  • Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 29, 2020 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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
  • The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
  • Eligible applicants include: State governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).
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