Million-Dollar Handout to Spaulding for Foster Parent Bootcamp
Published Date: 9/2/2026
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Summary
The ACF, CB announces the intent to award a single-source cooperative agreement in the amount of up to $1 million to Spaulding for Children in Southfield, MI. The purpose of this award is to continue the implementation and dissemination efforts of the National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster/Adoptive Parents (NTDC), a state-of-the-art training program to prepare foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers to effectively parent children and to provide these families with ongoing skill development needed to understand and promote healthy child development.
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Continued Free NTDC Training Access
The cooperative agreement will fund continued implementation and dissemination of NTDC, a free training for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers, allowing more states, tribes, territories, and agencies to implement the curriculum. NTDC materials were developed by Spaulding for Children (started under a CB cooperative agreement in 2017) and are available for agencies to use with ongoing implementation support.
$1M Single-Source Award to Spaulding
The Administration for Children and Families intends to award a single-source cooperative agreement of up to $1,000,000 to Spaulding for Children in Southfield, Michigan to continue the National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster/Adoptive Parents (NTDC). The award period is September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2027.
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