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This document lists the recipients of the 2024 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

The Family First Prevention Services Act enacted as part of Public Law (PL) 115 -123, amended Title IV-E to allow title IV-E agencies the option to receive funding for evidence-based kinship navigator programs that meet certain criteria.  Kinship navigator programs help relative and kin caregivers learn about and access programs and services to meet their own needs and the needs of the children they are raising.

Title IV-B, subpart 2 of the Social Security Act sets aside funding for formula grants to help states improve the quality of caseworker visits with children in foster care, with an emphasis on improving caseworker decision-making on the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in foster children and caseworker recruitment, retention and training.

This document lists the recipients of the 2023 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

This document lists the recipients of the 2022 Adoption Excellence Awards, provides a brief description of each recipient’s work, and features photos and quotes from youth who have been adopted or are waiting for an adoptive family. 

This document provides an overview of the Court Improvement  grant program.

This document lists the recipients of the 2021 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

This document provides a list of Children's Bureau discretionary grants awarded in fiscal year 2021.

This document lists the recipients of the 2020 Adoption Excellence Awards and provides a brief description of each recipient’s work.

This table provides the cumulative earning history from the Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Payments program by State for fiscal year 1998 through fiscal year 2022.