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Awards/BLOCK GRANT (A)

$678,041,045

Department of Health and Human Services·Administration for Children and Families

to DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES CALIFORNIA

social-servicesactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-20·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2601CAADPT_075
Award description

ADPTASST-2026 - ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds California's adoption assistance program, providing subsidies and support services to families adopting children from foster care.

Sub-sectors
child-welfareadoption-assistanceblock-grant-entitlement
Why this matters

Adoption assistance is a core federal entitlement supporting child welfare outcomes and family stability for vulnerable youth transitioning out of foster care.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002655.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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