Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Network

forecasted

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) plans to invite applications for Principal Investigators to join the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Network (the Network). The goal of this program of cooperative agreements is to support productive partnerships between social science scholars and state or local human services agencies. In addition to pursuing their individual programs of rigorous and relevant research, scholars will participate in a multi-disciplinary learning community by collaborating with other members of the Network.Competitive applications will 1) propose a partnership with a State or local agency responsible for administering benefits or programming funded by the TANF block grant; and 2) pursue social science research that could directly inform local, state, or federal human services policy to improve family economic self-sufficiency and stability, 3) include a focus on equity, broadly defined, and 4) identify areas of interest for potential collaborative work with other Network Scholars. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an established relationship with program partner(s) that is apparent throughout the research plan, from development and refinement of the research questions through the proposed data collection, interpretation, and dissemination.For more information on the previous cohorts of scholars and their work, please see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/family-self-sufficiency-and-stability-scholars-2013-grantees and https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/family-self-sufficiency-and-stability-research-scholars-network-fssrn-2020-2025 Initial awards will be made for the first 12-month budget period for up to $100,000; annual continuation awards for the four remaining 12-month budget periods will be awarded subject to the availability of funds, satisfactory progress by the recipient, and a determination that continued funding would be in the interest of the federal government.