Advancing State Implementation of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
Grant Opportunity Analysis
The Administration for Community Living is seeking applications for the Advancing State Implementation of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers cooperative agreement program. Successful state applicants must develop, test, and scale models that implement the commitments and recommendations of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. Eligible entities are limited to State Units on Aging, which must address at least three of the Strategy's five goals and collaborate with their State Developmental Disabilities Agency plus at least one other state agency during the two-year period of performance. The projects include up to a six-month planning period, after which grantees must submit a sustainability plan before executing their proposals. Applications must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on July 22, 2026, for awards up to $490,000 that require a 25 percent non-federal cost-sharing match.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible entities will be limited to state units on aging, those entities that administer Title III-E of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended. The ACL program office has verified with OGM and the Department that a limitation in competion of this nature is permissible. Per the Chapter 11.2 of the GPAM "An awarding agency is not required to get an exception if it is initiating supplements to a limited pool of existing recipients that were initially awarded as part of a competition, when the supplemental funding is offered to all recipients in that cohort, and where there is no change to the scope of the awards." applications will be sought from a previously identified list of awardees (the SUAs) to improve the administration of their current awards. Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.