Tribal Adult Protective Services Demonstration | HHS 2025 ACL AOA EJIG 0042

Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2025 ACL AOA EJIG 0042

The Tribal Adult Protective Services Demonstration (HHS 2025 ACL AOA EJIG 0042) is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the Administration for Community Living (ACL) focused on strengthening how Tribal communities prevent, identify, and respond to adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The program is framed as a demonstration effort, meaning the funding is meant to help recipients test or expand practical approaches that can improve adult protective services (APS) in Tribal settings, document what works, and build capacity that can be sustained beyond the grant period. The opportunity emphasizes elder justice activities and coordinated community responses, with a clear goal of improving safety and support for adults who may be at risk of harm.

At a practical level, the grant is intended to help Tribes and Tribal organizations better understand local needs and gaps related to abuse, neglect, and exploitation, then translate that understanding into action. That includes activities such as assessing the prevalence or drivers of mistreatment, improving intake and response processes, developing prevention and outreach strategies, and strengthening service pathways for adults experiencing harm. A major theme is multidisciplinary elder justice work, which typically involves bringing together partners like social services, healthcare providers, law enforcement, legal services, victim advocates, behavioral health, and community-based supports so that responses are coordinated rather than fragmented. The intent is not only to react after harm occurs, but also to build prevention, early identification, and culturally grounded intervention approaches.

This opportunity uses a cooperative agreement funding instrument (rather than a standard grant), which generally means ACL expects to have substantial involvement during the project. In many federal programs, that can include things like collaborative planning, required reporting and participation in technical assistance, shared development of evaluation or performance measures, and ongoing coordination with federal project officers to ensure the demonstration goals are being met.

Key administrative details include an application deadline of July 30, 2025, and an award ceiling of $200,000 per award. ACL anticipates making about five awards under this announcement. The program sits in the Income Security and Social Services activity category and is associated with CFDA number 93.747. The posting date in the source information is June 30, 2025.

Eligibility details in the provided source text are somewhat inconsistent and should be double-checked against the full official announcement before anyone invests significant effort in applying. The source data lists eligible applicants as Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) and “Others,” and it also states that current AoA Title VI grantees are eligible. At the same time, the description includes language stating that no entities are eligible and only individuals may apply, which conflicts with the overall design of an APS demonstration for Tribal governments and Tribal organizations and with typical ACL/AoA practice for Title VI-related funding. Also, it explicitly states that foreign entities are not eligible to compete for or receive awards under the announcement. In addition, it notes that non-U.S. citizens would need documentation showing they are eligible to receive research funding directly from a U.S. government agency, which is another unusual detail for a community services demonstration and further suggests the eligibility section needs careful verification in the full Notice of Funding Opportunity.

Overall, this funding opportunity is aimed at helping Tribal communities improve adult protective services through needs identification, stronger prevention and response activities, and multidisciplinary elder justice collaboration, with moderate-sized awards intended to support real-world, community-centered improvements and learning that can inform broader practice.

• The Administration for Community Living in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Tribal Adult Protective Services Demonstration" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.747.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-06-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-30. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others.

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