CFDA Number: 84.215H
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

This program provides assistance to eligible children to become ready for school.

To be eligible for funding, a project must propose to:

• Deliver services to eligible children and their families that foster eligible children’s emotional, behavioral, and social development;


• Coordinate and facilitate access by eligible children and their families to the services available through community resources, including those related to mental health, physical health, substance abuse, education, domestic violence prevention, child welfare, and social services; and


• Develop or enhance early childhood community partnerships and build toward a community system of care that brings together child-serving agencies or organizations to provide individualizedsupports for eligible children and their families.