Expanding the National Capacity for Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed (PCTI) Care: Services and Supports for Holocaust Survivors and Other Older Adults with a History of Trauma and Their Family Caregivers | HHS 2025 ACL AOA HSSG 0011

Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2025 ACL AOA HSSG 0011

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is offering a single, three-year cooperative agreement to expand national capacity for person-centered, trauma-informed (PCTI) care for Holocaust survivors in the United States, other older adults who have experienced significant trauma, and the family caregivers who support them. The opportunity is designed to move PCTI care from being a set of promising ideas into something that is consistently built into real-world aging services, so that agencies across the aging network are better equipped to recognize trauma histories, reduce re-traumatization, and provide supportive services that reflect each individual’s preferences, culture, and lived experience.

This funding opportunity has three connected goals. First, it aims to further develop and more deeply embed PCTI principles into supportive services for Holocaust survivors and other trauma-affected older adults and caregivers. In practice, that means strengthening approaches that prioritize dignity, choice, safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural responsiveness, while also recognizing the long-term impacts of trauma on health, functioning, and service engagement. Second, the awardee is expected to make sub-grants to agencies that are best positioned to improve and advance PCTI service delivery on the ground. These sub-awards are meant to accelerate adoption and improvement of trauma-informed practices in settings that directly serve older adults, helping translate national guidance into local action. Third, the initiative is intended to fully establish and operate a national resource center focused on PCTI care. That center will share best practices and provide training and technical assistance to agencies across the aging services network that serve older people living with the enduring effects of trauma.

The award will be made as a cooperative agreement, not a standard grant, which typically means ACL expects to have substantial involvement in the work as it is carried out. The project is structured around one national-level recipient that has the expertise, staffing, partnerships, and infrastructure to coordinate a multi-site effort, manage a sub-grant program, and deliver high-quality training and technical assistance at scale. Because only one award is expected, applicants should anticipate a competitive process that favors organizations with demonstrated national reach, strong program management and evaluation capacity, and credible experience working with trauma-informed services in aging, caregiving, and community-based support systems.

The opportunity is listed as a discretionary grant program under CFDA 93.048 (Income Security and Social Services). The Funding Opportunity Number is HHS 2025 ACL AOA HSSG 0011, with an original application closing date of July 30, 2025. The maximum funding level (award ceiling) is $8,500,000, and ACL anticipates making one award. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, which generally means a wide range of domestic entities may apply so long as they meet standard federal requirements; however, foreign entities are explicitly not eligible to apply for or receive an award under this announcement. Faith-based and community organizations are explicitly eligible as well, provided they meet the applicable eligibility requirements.

Overall, this NOFO is centered on building sustainable, national infrastructure for trauma-informed aging services: refining and promoting PCTI principles, seeding local implementation through sub-grants, and operating a national resource center that can train and support the broader aging network. The intended outcome is a measurable improvement in how aging-service providers understand trauma, tailor services around each older adult and caregiver, and deliver supports that are both effective and emotionally safe for people living with long-term trauma impacts.

• The Administration for Community Living in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Expanding the National Capacity for Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed (PCTI) Care: Services and Supports for Holocaust Survivors and Other Older Adults with a History of Trauma and Their Family Caregivers" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.048.
• 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 $8,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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