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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§626 Research, Training, or Demonstration Projects

Title 42 › CHAPTER 7 — SOCIAL SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER IV — GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES › Part B — Child and Family Services › subpart 1 — stephanie tubbs jones child welfare services program › § 626

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows Congress to provide money each year for grants, contracts, and joint projects to improve child-welfare work. The funds can support special research or demonstration projects of regional or national importance, help State or local agencies try out research-based methods, pay for training projects at public or nonprofit colleges (including traineeships with stipends), and be used in contracts or cooperative arrangements with States and other organizations. The federal official in charge can pay grants or contracts in advance or by reimbursement, in installments, and can set conditions needed to carry out the projects. Colleges that get traineeship grants must promise that each stipend recipient will train on-site at a child-welfare agency during the traineeship, agree to work for the same number of years as the traineeship in a public or nonprofit child-welfare agency in any State within a time set by the federal official after finishing school, and show proof of this. If a recipient breaks these rules and has no approved exception, they must repay all or part of the stipend plus interest and collection costs. The school must make training agreements with agencies, let current child-welfare workers apply if the traineeship helps their degree progress, and track each recipient’s employment for 3 years after program completion to see who gets and keeps jobs in the field.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §626

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(a)Authorization of appropriations
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as the Congress may determine—
(1)for grants by the Secretary—
(A)to public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning, and to public or other nonprofit agencies and organizations engaged in research or child-welfare activities, for special research or demonstration projects in the field of child welfare which are of regional or national significance and for special projects for the demonstration of new methods or facilities which show promise of substantial contribution to the advancement of child welfare;
(B)to State or local public agencies responsible for administering, or supervising the administration of, the plan under this part, for projects for the demonstration of the utilization of research (including findings resulting therefrom) in the field of child welfare in order to encourage experimental and special types of welfare services; and
(C)to public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning for special projects for training personnel for work in the field of child welfare, including traineeships described in section 628a of this title with such stipends and allowances as may be permitted by the Secretary; and
(2)for contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with States and public and other organizations and agencies for the conduct of research, special projects, or demonstration projects relating to such matters.
(b)Payments; advances or reimbursements; installments; conditions
Payments of grants or under contracts or cooperative arrangements under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments, as the Secretary may determine; and shall be made on such conditions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the purposes of the grants, contracts, or other arrangements.
(c)Child welfare traineeships
The Secretary may approve an application for a grant to a public or nonprofit institution for higher learning to provide traineeships with stipends under subsection (a)(1)(C) only if the application—
(1)provides assurances that each individual who receives a stipend with such traineeship (in this section referred to as a “recipient”) will enter into an agreement with the institution under which the recipient agrees—
(A)to participate in training at a public or private nonprofit child welfare agency on a regular basis (as determined by the Secretary) for the period of the traineeship;
(B)to be employed for a period of years equivalent to the period of the traineeship, in a public or private nonprofit child welfare agency in any State, within a period of time (determined by the Secretary in accordance with regulations) after completing the postsecondary education for which the traineeship was awarded;
(C)to furnish to the institution and the Secretary evidence of compliance with subparagraphs (A) and (B); and
(D)if the recipient fails to comply with subparagraph (A) or (B) and does not qualify for any exception to this subparagraph which the Secretary may prescribe in regulations, to repay to the Secretary all (or an appropriately prorated part) of the amount of the stipend, plus interest, and, if applicable, reasonable collection fees (in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary);
(2)provides assurances that the institution will—
(A)enter into agreements with child welfare agencies for onsite training of recipients;
(B)permit an individual who is employed in the field of child welfare services to apply for a traineeship with a stipend if the traineeship furthers the progress of the individual toward the completion of degree requirements; and
(C)develop and implement a system that, for the 3-year period that begins on the date any recipient completes a child welfare services program of study, tracks the employment record of the recipient, for the purpose of determining the percentage of recipients who secure employment in the field of child welfare services and remain employed in the field.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 628a of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(C), was transferred and redesignated as subsec. (c) of this section by Pub. L. 109–288, § 6(f)(2), Sept. 28, 2006, 120 Stat. 1247. Codification section 628a of this title, which was transferred and redesignated as subsec. (c) of this section by Pub. L. 109–288, was based on act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 429, as added Pub. L. 103–432, title II, § 205(a), Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4456.

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–288, § 11(b), redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which related to appropriations for demonstration projects for development of alternate care arrangements for infants not requiring hospitalization. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–288, § 6(f)(2), amended section as amended by Pub. L. 109–288, § 11(b), by transferring section 628a of this title and redesignating it as subsec. (c) of this section. See Codification note above. Pub. L. 109–288, § 11(b), redesignated subsec. (c) as (b). 1994—Subsec. (a)(1)(C). Pub. L. 103–432 inserted “described in section 628a of this title” after “including traineeships”. 1987—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 100–203 added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2006 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 109–288 effective Oct. 1, 2006, and applicable to payments under this part and part E of this subchapter for calendar quarters beginning on or after such date, without regard to whether implementing

Regulations

have been promulgated, and with delay permitted if State legislation is required to meet additional requirements, see section 12(a), (b) of Pub. L. 109–288, set out as a note under section 621 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1994 Amendment Pub. L. 103–432, title II, § 205(c), Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4457, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting section 628a of this title and amending this section] shall apply to grants awarded on or after October 1, 1995.” Appropriations or Grants Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 240(g), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 916, provided that any appropriations or grants made pursuant to section 726 of this title, as in effect prior to Jan. 2, 1968, were to be deemed to have been appropriated or made under this section.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 626

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110