Regional Partnership Grant Program

The Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program is administered by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Children’s Bureau to improve the well-being of children affected by parental substance use disorders. The grants support interagency collaborations and integration of programs, services, and activities designed to increase the well-being, improve the permanency, and enhance the safety of children who are in, or at risk of, out-of-home placements as the result of a parent or caregiver’s substance use disorder. The partnerships implement a range of activities and interventions, including peer recovery coaching, family-centered substance use disorder treatment, parenting and family strengthening programs, services to pregnant and postpartum women, medication assisted treatment, in-home parenting and child safety support for families, and related evidence-based practices. Since 2007, Children’s Bureau has awarded six rounds of RPG funding to 109 grant projects across 38 states, including tribal communities. The map below displays the RPG sites and links to individual program descriptions.
NCSACW provides programmatic technical assistance to the RPG grantees on a variety of topics, including collaborative practice and policy, program sustainability, trauma-informed services, evidence-based and evidence-informed services to children, treatment and recovery support services, and family-centered substance use disorder intervention and treatment practices for women and families.
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Policy and Practice Resources
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Child Welfare Timeline for SUD Treatment and Other Partners Technical Assistance Brief
(PDF 9.2 MB)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2020
This Regional Partnership Grant Technical Assistance Brief presents three key strategies that agencies can use to strengthen collaboration between child welfare and substance use disorder treatment systems for supporting safe and timely reunification of families affected by substance use disorders. These strategies have generated a body of knowledge and set of best practices proven to achieve improved outcomes.
View Document Child Welfare Timeline for SUD Treatment and Other Partners Technical Assistance Brief
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Referral and Engagement of Parents in Services Technical Assistance Brief
(PDF 3.9 MB)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2020
This Regional Partnership Grant Technical Assistance Brief presents four key strategies that grantees and programs can use to ensure that families are referred to and engaged in substance use disorder treatment and other services and supports. Early engagement of families has been shown to enable them to successfully complete program services.
View Document Referral and Engagement of Parents in Services Technical Assistance Brief
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Sustainability Planning for Regional Partnerships Technical Assistance Brief
(PDF 4.3 MB)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2020
This Regional Partnership Grant Technical Assistance (TA) Brief presents detailed steps that grantees can take to begin sustainability planning of their grant projects. The TA brief provides a set of questions to begin planning, mobilizing community resources, and conducting early partner engagement.
View Document Sustainability Planning for Regional Partnerships Technical Assistance Brief
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Regional Partnership Grant Program Description
(PDF 1.3 MB)
Children’s Bureau, 2020
The Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program Description is a four-page document providing the background and history of RPG, as well as a detailed description of program strategies, emerging cross-site evaluation findings, lessons of collaboration, and available technical assistance.
View Document Regional Partnership Grant Program Description
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Regional Partnership Grant Program Summary
(PDF 605 KB)
Children’s Bureau, 2020
The Regional Partnership Grant Program Summary is a two-page, brief synopsis of the background and history of RPG. It provides an overview of grantee collaborative partnerships, program strategies, and available technical assistance.
View Document Regional Partnership Grant Program Summary
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Regional Partnership Grant Program Infographic
(PDF 511 KB)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2020
This one-page, at-a-glance document is a visual representation of the Regional Partnership Grant initiative, providing an overview and snapshot of the program.
View Document Regional Partnership Grant Program Infographic
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