The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) offers the Behavioral Interventions in Child Support Services (BICS) grant. This grant enhances child support program effectiveness by applying behavioral economics. It funds state IV-D agencies to develop and pilot behaviorally-informed interventions, targeting improved outcomes in early engagement, payments, and family-centered services. Grantees, with a technical assistance team, will evaluate and scale successful interventions statewide. The goal is to institutionalize a data-driven approach, integrating behavioral factors and evaluation for sustained program improvement.
Opportunity ID: 256929
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 2 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 06, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 12, 2014 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 05, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 05, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Sep 04, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State Title IV-D agencies (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Administration for Children and Families – OCSE |
| Description: | This FOA is modified. The link to the HHS Behavioral Insights Conference video is corrected in the Grants.gov Synopsis. In order to improve both the effectiveness and operations of child support programs, to expand the application of behavioral economics to child support contexts through the development of promising interventions, and to build a culture of regular, rapid-cycle evaluation and critical inquiry in the child support community, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will award Behavioral Interventions in Child Support Services grants (BICS). BICS will be funded by Section 1115 funds awarded under cooperative agreements to state IV-D agencies to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. This cooperative agreement will allow the selected state agency to use this federal grant award and the Federal Financial Participation (FFP) associated with these grant funds to test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded, third-party technical assistance and evaluation team (TAE team), will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and evaluate progress towards goals. The TAE team will be funded through a companion funding announcement, HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822 available to view at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822. Grant projects will first diagnose and design a behaviorally informed intervention and pilot test that intervention at a multi-county (or large single county) level. If the intervention is found to be successful at the pilot stage, it is expected to be implemented statewide, or on the broadest scale possible for the state. Pilot tests will involve random assignment to determine whether desired outcomes are achieved. Projects will focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. The overall goal of the BICS project is to introduce and encourage institutionalizing a way of doing business that takes behavioral factors and regular evaluation into account to improve success. Child support programs will have the opportunity to work with a team of behavioral experts to analyze their business processes, and pilot, evaluate, and replicate program improvements. Application of behavioral insights to healthcare and social services is an area of keen interest at the federal level. On March 14, 2014, HHS hosted a Behavioral Insights Conference to highlight federal efforts to apply behavioral economics, and it is available to view via webcast at http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=13883&bhcp=1. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
ACF Applications Help Desk
app_support@acf.hhs.gov Email:app_support@acf.hhs.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. | Jun 12, 2014 | |
| Jun 18, 2016 | ||
| Jun 18, 2016 | ||
| Jun 18, 2016 | ||
| Jun 18, 2016 | ||
| Jun 12, 2014 |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 2
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 2 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 06, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 12, 2014 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 05, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 05, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Sep 04, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State Title IV-D agencies (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Administration for Children and Families – OCSE |
| Description: | This FOA is modified. The link to the HHS Behavioral Insights Conference video is corrected in the Grants.gov Synopsis. In order to improve both the effectiveness and operations of child support programs, to expand the application of behavioral economics to child support contexts through the development of promising interventions, and to build a culture of regular, rapid-cycle evaluation and critical inquiry in the child support community, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will award Behavioral Interventions in Child Support Services grants (BICS). BICS will be funded by Section 1115 funds awarded under cooperative agreements to state IV-D agencies to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. This cooperative agreement will allow the selected state agency to use this federal grant award and the Federal Financial Participation (FFP) associated with these grant funds to test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded, third-party technical assistance and evaluation team (TAE team), will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and evaluate progress towards goals. The TAE team will be funded through a companion funding announcement, HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822 available to view at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822. Grant projects will first diagnose and design a behaviorally informed intervention and pilot test that intervention at a multi-county (or large single county) level. If the intervention is found to be successful at the pilot stage, it is expected to be implemented statewide, or on the broadest scale possible for the state. Pilot tests will involve random assignment to determine whether desired outcomes are achieved. Projects will focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. The overall goal of the BICS project is to introduce and encourage institutionalizing a way of doing business that takes behavioral factors and regular evaluation into account to improve success. Child support programs will have the opportunity to work with a team of behavioral experts to analyze their business processes, and pilot, evaluate, and replicate program improvements. Application of behavioral insights to healthcare and social services is an area of keen interest at the federal level. On March 14, 2014, HHS hosted a Behavioral Insights Conference to highlight federal efforts to apply behavioral economics, and it is available to view via webcast at http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=13883&bhcp=1. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
ACF Applications Help Desk
app_support@acf.hhs.gov Email:app_support@acf.hhs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Forecast 4
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Forecast 4 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Archive Date: | Aug 12, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State Title IV-D agencies (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | – |
| Description: | In order to improve both the effectiveness and operations of child support programs, to expand the application of behavioral economics to child support contexts through the development of promising interventions, and to build a culture of regular, rapid-cycle evaluation and critical inquiry in the child support community, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will award Behavioral Interventions in Child Support Services grants (BICS). BICS will be funded by Section 1115 funds awarded under cooperative agreements to state IV-D agencies to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. This cooperative agreement will allow the selected state agency to use this federal grant award and the Federal Financial Participation (FFP) associated with these grant funds to test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded, third-party technical assistance and evaluation team (TAE team), will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and evaluate progress towards goals. The TAE team will be funded through a companion funding announcement, HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822. Grant projects will first diagnose and design a behaviorally informed intervention and pilot test that intervention at a multi-county (or large single county) level. If the intervention is found to be successful at the pilot stage, it is expected to be implemented statewide, or on the broadest scale possible for the state. Pilot tests will involve random assignment to determine whether desired outcomes are achieved. Projects will focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. The overall goal of the BICS project is to introduce and encourage institutionalizing a way of doing business that takes behavioral factors and regular evaluation into account to improve success. Child support programs will have the opportunity to work with a team of behavioral experts to analyze their business processes, and pilot, evaluate, and replicate program improvements. Application of behavioral insights to healthcare and social services is an area of keen interest at the federal level. On March 14, 2014, HHS hosted a Behavioral Insights Conference to highlight federal efforts to apply behavioral economics, and it is available to view via webcast here. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
–
Email:Jessica.Lohmann@acf.hhs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Forecast 3
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Forecast 3 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Archive Date: | Aug 12, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) Title IV-D agencies or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | – |
| Description: | In order to improve both the effectiveness and operations of child support programs, to expand the application of behavioral economics to child support contexts through the development of promising interventions, and to build a culture of regular, rapid-cycle evaluation and critical inquiry in the child support community, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will award Behavioral Interventions in Child Support Services grants (BICS). BICS will be funded by Section 1115 funds awarded under cooperative agreements to state IV-D agencies to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. This cooperative agreement will allow the selected state agency to use this federal grant award and the Federal Financial Participation (FFP) associated with these grant funds to test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded, third-party technical assistance and evaluation team (TAE team), will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and evaluate progress towards goals. The TAE team will be funded through a companion funding announcement, HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822. Grant projects will first diagnose and design a behaviorally informed intervention and pilot test that intervention at a multi-county (or large single county) level. If the intervention is found to be successful at the pilot stage, it is expected to be implemented statewide, or on the broadest scale possible for the state. Pilot tests will involve random assignment to determine whether desired outcomes are achieved. Projects will focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. The overall goal of the BICS project is to introduce and encourage institutionalizing a way of doing business that takes behavioral factors and regular evaluation into account to improve success. Child support programs will have the opportunity to work with a team of behavioral experts to analyze their business processes, and pilot, evaluate, and replicate program improvements. Application of behavioral insights to healthcare and social services is an area of keen interest at the federal level. On March 14, 2014, HHS hosted a Behavioral Insights Conference to highlight federal efforts to apply behavioral economics, and it is available to view via webcast here. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
–
Email:Michelle.Jadczak@ACF.hhs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Forecast 2
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Forecast 2 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Archive Date: | Aug 12, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) Title IV-D agencies or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | – |
| Description: | The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) anticipates awarding eight grants to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. Grantees will test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grant projects will have a multi-county or statewide scope and focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded evaluation and technical assistance team, will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and track progress towards goals. Over the five year grant period, the first year will be a planning year devoted to start-up and development of the program design, interventions will be tested for a three year period, and the final year will be evaluation and close-out of the project. Grantees will not be required to conduct their own evaluation but must fully participate in an OCSE funded evaluation and work closely with the evaluator for project technical assistance and intervention design. OCSE expects to award a total of $390,000 in Section 1115 funds over the five year project period. Award ceiling in FY 2014 and 2015 is $150,000. Award ceiling in FY 2016, 2017, and 2018 is $30,000. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
–
Email:Michelle.Jadczak@ACF.hhs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Forecast 1
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Forecast 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | Jun 18, 2016 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Archive Date: | Aug 12, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) Title IV-D agencies or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | – |
| Description: | The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) anticipates awarding eight grants to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. Grantees will test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grant projects will have a multi-county or statewide scope and focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded evaluation and technical assistance team, will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and track progress towards goals. Over the five year grant period, the first year will be a planning year devoted to start-up and development of the program design, interventions will be tested for a three year period, and the final year will be evaluation and close-out of the project. Grantees will not be required to conduct their own evaluation but must fully participate in an OCSE funded evaluation and work closely with the evaluator for project technical assistance and intervention design. OCSE expects to award a total of $390,000 in Section 1115 funds over the five year project period. Award ceiling in FY 2014 and 2015 is $150,000. Award ceiling in FY 2016, 2017, and 2018 is $30,000. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
–
Email:michelle.jadczak@acf.hhs.gov |
DISPLAYING: Synopsis 1
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 8 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.564 — Child Support Enforcement Research |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 12, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | – |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 05, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Sep 04, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $1,200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $150,000 |
| Award Floor: | $125,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State Title IV-D agencies (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) or the umbrella agency of the IV-D program are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Applications from individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship for-profit organizations are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Administration for Children and Families – OCSE |
| Description: | In order to improve both the effectiveness and operations of child support programs, to expand the application of behavioral economics to child support contexts through the development of promising interventions, and to build a culture of regular, rapid-cycle evaluation and critical inquiry in the child support community, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will award Behavioral Interventions in Child Support Services grants (BICS). BICS will be funded by Section 1115 funds awarded under cooperative agreements to state IV-D agencies to explore the potential relevance and application of behavioral economics principles to child support services. This cooperative agreement will allow the selected state agency to use this federal grant award and the Federal Financial Participation (FFP) associated with these grant funds to test behaviorally-informed interventions to improve child support outcomes by focusing on areas such as early engagement, right-sizing orders, reliable payment, family-centered services, and other innovations to improve establishment and enforcement outcomes. Grantees, in cooperation with an OCSE-funded, third-party technical assistance and evaluation team (TAE team), will identify and implement behaviorally-informed process improvements and evaluate progress towards goals. The TAE team will be funded through a companion funding announcement, HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822 available to view at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0822. Grant projects will first diagnose and design a behaviorally informed intervention and pilot test that intervention at a multi-county (or large single county) level. If the intervention is found to be successful at the pilot stage, it is expected to be implemented statewide, or on the broadest scale possible for the state. Pilot tests will involve random assignment to determine whether desired outcomes are achieved. Projects will focus on shorter-term goals such as enrollment, engagement, and program completion. The overall goal of the BICS project is to introduce and encourage institutionalizing a way of doing business that takes behavioral factors and regular evaluation into account to improve success. Child support programs will have the opportunity to work with a team of behavioral experts to analyze their business processes, and pilot, evaluate, and replicate program improvements. Application of behavioral insights to healthcare and social services is an area of keen interest at the federal level. On March 14, 2014, HHS hosted a Behavioral Insights Conference to highlight federal efforts to apply behavioral economics, and it is available to view via webcast at http://videocast.nih.gov/summar.ask?Live=13883&bhcp+1. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
ACF Applications Help Desk
app_support@acf.hhs.gov Email:app_support@acf.hhs.gov |
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | ACF Applications Help Desk app_support@acf.hhs.gov Email: app_support@acf.hhs.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93.564 | HHS-2014-ACF-OCSE-FD-0818 | Behavioral Interventions for Child Support Services | PKG00198403 | Jun 06, 2014 | Aug 05, 2014 | View |
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Mandatory forms
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