Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2022 ACF OCSE FD 0018
The Safe Access for Victims' Economic Security (SAVES) Center grant is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), specifically the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). Through this award, OCSE plans to fund one recipient to establish and operate a national technical assistance, training, and research center focused on improving safe access to child support, paternity, and parenting time services for victims of domestic violence. The central purpose is to help ensure that people who have experienced domestic violence can pursue child support-related services without being put at greater risk, while also strengthening how child support agencies identify, respond to, and manage safety concerns across their programs.
A major responsibility of the SAVES Center is to build knowledge and evidence about what victims need and what gets in the way of safely using child support services. This includes conducting research to establish baseline data on victims' experiences, needs, and barriers to access, along with gathering and documenting promising practices that help survivors safely engage with child support and parenting time processes. The Center is expected to engage one or more research partners to carry out primary data collection, including examining how often domestic violence is present among child support program participants, identifying specific obstacles survivors face when navigating child support and parenting time services, and assessing how well model domestic violence procedures work when implemented by state and tribal Title IV-D child support agencies.
Alongside research, the SAVES Center is designed to be a practical, capacity-building resource for the field. The recipient will develop, refine, and deliver training and technical assistance to strengthen domestic violence safety practices within child support agencies. This work includes creating training materials, practice guides, and other tools aimed at child support case managers and legal staff, with the goal of embedding comprehensive safety procedures into everyday operations. The Center will also test and evaluate the impact of these safety procedures on survivors' ability to access child support and parenting time services, then use what is learned to improve guidance and implementation approaches over time. Another key deliverable is the development and dissemination of model domestic violence policies and procedures that child support agencies can adopt or adapt.
The opportunity emphasizes cross-system collaboration as a core strategy, recognizing that safety in child support and parenting time contexts often depends on coordinated responses across multiple systems. The SAVES Center is expected to convene and lead partnerships that include public assistance agencies, courts, legal services providers, and domestic violence service providers and coalitions. The project should also identify and involve domestic violence experts at the national, regional, state, and tribal levels who can help shape the Center's technical assistance products and support broad dissemination to audiences such as child support agency staff, court staff, and community-based domestic violence program staff.
In terms of who will be served, the SAVES Center will provide training, technical assistance, and research support to OCSE-funded SAVES implementation grantee sites (referenced as a companion forecast), as well as to additional state and tribal Title IV-D child support agencies and Title IV-D judicial officers. The Center's reach also extends to domestic violence service providers at the national, state, tribal, and local levels, reinforcing the grant's intent to strengthen shared practices and coordination between child support programs and the domestic violence advocacy community.
OCSE situates this work within its existing policy and program guidance related to domestic violence and safe access in child support services, including IM-14-03, IM-15-02, and IM-19-06, which address collaboration, the scope of safe access issues, and model procedures for domestic violence cases. Applicants and eventual recipients are expected to align the Center's work with this guidance while also generating new research findings and practical tools that can be used broadly across jurisdictions.
The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial federal involvement in the project beyond standard grant oversight. The project period spans five years, divided into five separate budget periods. Funding is forecast at $5,882,350 for year 1, with continuation funding of up to $1,475,000 per year for years 2 through 5, bringing the total forecasted five-year project budget to $11,782,350. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2022-ACF-OCSE-FD-0018 under CFDA 93.564, and eligible applicants include state governments, federally recognized tribal governments, and other Native American tribal organizations. The original closing date listed for applications was June 1, 2022, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the due date, and OCSE expected to make one award.Apply for HHS 2022 ACF OCSE FD 0018
- 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 "Safe Access for Victims’ Economic Security (SAVES) Center" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.564.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 28, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 01, 2022 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 pm Eastern Standard Time 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 $5,882,350.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 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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