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Awards/BLOCK GRANT (A)

$58,521,945

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

to COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES

ACTION DATE2026-04-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2601MAADPT_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

Federal block grant to Massachusetts for adoption assistance payments and support services to families adopting children from foster care.

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

Adoption assistance is a core child welfare entitlement that incentivizes permanent family placements and reduces foster care caseloads.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.001937.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 136 days
Sources

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