Current as of:
Overarching (standard) and Prior year program award terms and conditions administered by ACF are provided for historical purposes.
ACF Standard Terms and Conditions
- Effective January 30, 2026 (Superseded and Archived on 2/12/2026) (PDF)
- Effective July 29, 2025 (Superseded and Archived on 1/30/2026) (PDF)
- Effective July 25, 2025 (Superseded and Archived on 7/29/2025) (PDF)
- Effective May 9, 2025 (Superseded and Archived on 7/25/2025) (PDF)
- Effective October 1, 2024 (Superseded and Archived on 5/9/2025) (PDF)
General Terms and Conditions:
- Non-Discretionary Award Effective October 1, 2023 (Archived 9/30/2024) (PDF)
- Non-Discretionary Award Effective July 26, 2021 (Archived 9/30/2023) (PDF)
- Non-Discretionary Award Effective October 1, 2019 (Archived 7/25/2021) (PDF)
Prior Year Terms and Conditions by Program
ADMINISTRATION ON CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES: CHILDREN'S BUREAU
FY 2021 - FY 2023
- Adoption Assistance Program (PDF)
- Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Program (PDF)
- Child Abuse and Neglect State Grants (PDF)
- Child Abuse and Neglect State Grants - American Rescue Plan Act (PDF)
- Children's Justice Act (PDF)
- Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grant (PDF)
- Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grants (States & Territories) - American Rescue Plan Act (PDF)
- Chafee Education and Training Vouchers (PDF)
- Family First Prevention Services Act Transition Grant (PDF)
- Family First Prevention Services Transition Act Funding Certainty Grant (PDF)
- Foster Care Program (PDF)
- Guardianship Program (PDF)
- John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood (PDF)
- Title IV-E Kinship Navigator Program (PDF)
- MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PDF)
- MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families - Monthly Caseworker Visits (PDF)
- Prevention Program (PDF)
- State Court Improvement Program (PDF)
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Social Services (PDF)
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program Disaster Relief Funds (PDF)
ADMINISTRATION ON CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES: FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU
FY 2021 - FY 2023
OFFICE OF CHILD CARE (OCC)
FY 2024
FY 2021 - FY 2023
- Child Care Development Fund (P.L. 102-477 Tribal) (PDF)
- Child Care Development Fund Tribal Construction (PDF)
- Child Care Development Fund Supplemental Terms and Conditions - States | Territories | Tribes (PDF)
- CCDF Disaster Terms and Conditions (PDF)
- CARES Act Supplemental Terms and Conditions (PDF)
- CRRSA Supplemental Terms and Conditions (PDF)
- ARP Act Supplemental Terms and Conditions - Stabilization Funds (PDF)
- ARP Act Supplemental Terms and Conditions - Discretionary Funds (PDF)
OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES (OCSS)
FY 2021 - FY 2023
OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES (OCS)
FY 2021 - FY 2023
- Community Services Block Grant Program (PDF)
- Leveraging Incentive Program (PDF)
- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (PDF)
- Low Income Home Water Assistance Program (PDF)
- Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Program (PDF)
- Consolidated Grants to Insular Areas (SSBG) Effective October 2021 (PDF)
- Social Services Block Grant Program — Effective October 2021 (PDF)
OFFICE OF FAMILY ASSISTANCE (OFA)
FY 2024
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (State & Territories) (PDF)
- Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (Direct Funded Tribes) (PDF)
- Native Employment Works Program (NEWP) - Directly Funded Tribes (PDF)
- Payments to Territories - Adults (AABD) (PDF)
- TANF Contingency (States) (PDF)
FY 2021 - FY 2023
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (State & Territories) Terms and Conditions (PDF)
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Direct Funded Tribes) Terms and Conditions (PDF)
- Temp Assist. for Needy Families-Pandemic Emergency Assist. Funding (PEAF) Terms & Conditions for States, Territories & Tribes (PDF)
- Native Employment Works Program (Directly Funded Tribes) Terms and Conditions (PDF)
OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT (ORR)
OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, AND RESPONSE (OHSEPR)
FY 2021 - FY 2023
OFFICE OF FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES (OFVPS)
FY 2021 - FY 2023
- Family Violence Prevention Services COVID-19 Testing, Vaccine Access and Mobile Health Units - ARP of 2021 (PDF)
- Family Violence Prevention Services - States and Tribes (PDF)
- Family Violence Prevention Services (States and Tribes) American Rescue Plan Act (PDF)
- Family Violence Prevention Services Sexual Assault/Rape Crisis Centers - ARP of 2021 (PDF)
- State Domestic Violence Coalitions (PDF)
- State Domestic Violence Coalitions - American Rescue Plan Act (PDF)
- State Domestic Violence Coalitions COVID-19 Testing, Vaccines and Mobile Health Units - ARP of 2021 (PDF)