Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2021 ACF ACYF TS 1925
The Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (CSRAE) Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), specifically the Family and Youth Services Bureau under the Administration on Children, Youth and Families. It is designed to fund organizations that will deliver sexual risk avoidance education exclusively, meaning the funded programming must focus on encouraging youth to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The core goal is to shape youth decision-making by promoting what the program defines as the optimal health behavior: avoiding non-marital sexual activity, with an emphasis on improving young peoples future health outcomes, psychological well-being, and long-term economic success.
Applicants are expected to submit a clear implementation plan for a sexual risk avoidance curriculum or program model that keeps this message central and unambiguous. The opportunity stresses that the program content must not simply mention sexual risk avoidance as one option among many, but must place primary emphasis on it in both context and messaging. In practice, this means the curriculum design, lesson framing, and youth-facing communication should normalize avoiding non-marital sexual activity as the expected and healthiest choice, rather than treating teen sexual activity as typical or inevitable. Funded projects also need to discuss the social, psychological, and health benefits that participants can gain by refraining from non-marital sexual activity and by building healthy relationships.
A major requirement is that all information presented must be medically accurate and supported by reputable, peer-reviewed or otherwise authoritative sources, including educational, scientific, governmental, or health organizations. Beyond accuracy, the program requires an evidence-based approach that connects research findings to real-world delivery in a way that fits the needs of the intended youth audience. The grant expects applicants to show that their approach is not just theoretical, but structured for practical implementation, with programming choices tied to desired outcomes and the specific context of the communities and youth being served.
The content areas encouraged under this funding go beyond abstaining from non-marital sex and include skill-building and protective factors that the program frames as connected to sexual risk avoidance. Examples highlighted in the opportunity include teaching self-regulation, reinforcing goal setting, and supporting what is described as success sequencing for poverty prevention. Programs are also expected to address healthy relationships and to help youth recognize and resist sexual coercion and dating violence. In addition, applicants may address other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking and illicit drug use, but the opportunity explicitly cautions that these topics should be handled in a way that does not normalize teen sexual activity. Overall, the expectation is a coordinated prevention approach where relationship skills, personal boundaries, and future planning reinforce the central objective of sexual risk avoidance.
From a funding and administrative standpoint, this opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-TS-1925; CFDA 93.787) offered grants with an award ceiling of $450,000 and anticipated about 10 awards. The original application closing date listed was July 15, 2021, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline date. A wide range of entities were eligible to apply, including local governments (counties, cities, townships), special district governments, independent school districts, public and private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations, public housing authorities, nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), for-profit organizations (including small businesses), and other entities as further clarified in the eligibility notes.
In summary, the grant is aimed at organizations that can design and deliver a tightly aligned, research-informed sexual risk avoidance education program for youth. The key compliance theme running through the opportunity is that sexual risk avoidance must be the exclusive and primary educational focus, presented with medically accurate support, delivered through an evidence-based framework, and reinforced through related life-skill topics like healthy relationships, resisting coercion, and future-oriented goal setting.Apply for HHS 2021 ACF ACYF TS 1925
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children Families - ACYF/FYSB in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.787.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 15, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 15, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (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 $450,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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