Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Grants | HHS 2025 ACF ECD TH 0106

Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2025 ACF ECD TH 0106

The Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Grants opportunity is a discretionary funding competition from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD), designed to strengthen support for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) families during pregnancy and early childhood. Through this funding, ACF will make 5-year cooperative agreements with eligible tribal entities to develop, implement, sustain, expand, and improve evidence-based home visiting programs that serve expectant families and families with young children from birth through kindergarten entry. The focus is on delivering high-quality home visiting services that are culturally grounded and responsive to the needs, traditions, and strengths of tribal communities, while still aligning with evidence-based approaches that have demonstrated positive outcomes for families and children.

The program emphasizes more than simply delivering services in the home. Awards are intended to help grantees build strong operational foundations, including performance measurement and continuous quality improvement systems that allow programs to track outcomes, refine practice, and demonstrate impact over time. Funding also supports broader early childhood systems development, meaning grantees are expected to coordinate with other programs and services that families use, improve referral pathways, and strengthen local or regional systems that serve AIAN children and parents. In addition, recipients are expected to participate in research and evaluation activities to expand what is known about effective home visiting in tribal contexts and to help grow the evidence base specifically for tribal communities.

The home visiting model supported under this opportunity is meant to advance a range of family and child outcomes. These include improved maternal and prenatal health, stronger infant health, and healthier child growth and development. The program also targets reduced child maltreatment, improved parenting practices that support healthy development, and better school readiness as children approach kindergarten. On the family stability side, the program aims to improve families socio-economic well-being, strengthen coordination and follow-through on referrals to community resources, and reduce injuries, crime, and domestic violence. Overall, the stated goal is to support healthy, happy, and successful AIAN children and families through coordinated, high-quality, culturally grounded, evidence-based home visiting services, while also improving coordination among early childhood programs and strengthening early childhood systems serving AIAN communities.

Eligibility is limited to federally recognized Indian tribes (including consortia of tribes), tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations, as those terms are defined in Section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (Public Law 94-437). In practical terms, an Indian tribe is a federally recognized tribe, band, nation, or organized community, including eligible Alaska Native villages and certain Alaska Native entities recognized for federal services. A tribal organization generally refers to a tribe's elected governing body or a legally established Indian-controlled organization that ensures maximum Indian participation in its activities. An urban Indian organization is a nonprofit located in an urban area, governed by an urban Indian-controlled board, structured to maximize participation by interested Indian groups and individuals, and able to legally cooperate with other public and private partners to carry out program activities. Individuals, sole proprietorships, and foreign entities are not eligible and would be disqualified from review.

Key funding details indicate the opportunity number is HHS-2025-ACF-ECD-TH-0106, the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, and the activity area is Income Security and Social Services under CFDA 93.872. The application closing date is March 17, 2025. ACF expects to make about 6 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000. The opportunity record was created on December 18, 2024.

• The Administration for Children and Families in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.872.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-17. (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 6 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others.

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