Family Home Visiting
Funding and Grants Management

Funding opportunities

Current funding opportunity

Strong Foundations: Evidence-Based Home Visiting Professional Development Funding

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) family home visiting section seeks applications from current Strong Foundations grantees interested in receiving additional funding to offer professional development opportunities for staff implementing evidence-based family home visiting models.  Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis from Nov. 1, 2024—Oct. 31, 2025, for project activities occurring between Jan. 1—Dec. 31, 2025.

Application materials and instructions

• Strong Foundations Professional Development Application Instructions (PDF)
• Strong Foundations Professional Development Action Plan Template 2025 (Excel)
• Strong Foundations Professional Development Budget Template (Excel)

Current grants

Promising Practices

Since 2023, MDH has funded tribal nations, non-profit organizations, and community health boards (CHBs) to expand access to community-based family home visiting programs for priority and hard to reach populations through the Promising Practices grant program. Promising Practices programs are needed to explore flexible and non-model approaches to family home visiting program implementation and service delivery. Priority populations include families experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness, substance use disorder (SUD), serious persistent mental illness (SPMI), and/or intimate partner violence (IPV); families currently living in a domestic violence shelter; and/or Black, Indigenous, and families of color with limited access to evidence-based or other family home visiting services.

• Promising Practices Grant Allocation 2023-25 (PDF)

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Family Home Visiting

Since 2001, MDH has administered family home visiting services for families at or below 200 percent of poverty and who are at risk for poor maternal and child outcomes. The Minnesota Legislature provides funding of $8,086,000 annually to all local public health departments and tribal nations for services provided under the TANF statute.

• TANF Community Health Board (CHB) Grant Allocation 2023-25 (PDF)
• TANF Tribal Nations Grant Allocation 2023-25 (PDF)
• To view guidelines for using TANF funds, go to Federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Grant Guidelines (PDF).

Strong Foundations: Evidence-based Family Home Visiting

Since 2023, MDH has funded evidence-based home visiting services in county governments, tribal nations, and non-profit organizations through the Strong Foundations grant program. Strong Foundations stabilizes and sustains existing home visiting programs while supporting start-up implementation of new home visiting programs seeking to address some of Minnesota’s greatest disparities over a five-year period.

• Strong Foundations 2023-27 Grant Awards (PDF)
• Strong Foundations 2025 Budget and Staffing Plan Instructions (PDF)
• Strong Foundations 2025 Budget Template: Core (Excel)
• Strong Foundations 2025 Budget Template: Collaborative Project (Excel)
• Strong Foundations 2025 Budget Template: MECSH Trainer (Excel)

Strong Foundations is funded by multiple sources, including:

Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) federal grant

The federally funded MIECHV grant targets high-risk families who are most likely to benefit from intensive home visiting services. Awardees are selected based on designation as an at-risk community in a statewide needs assessment.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) state grant

The state-funded NFP grant provides funds to local public health agencies and tribal nations to create or expand Nurse-Family Partnership programs. 

Evidence-based Home Visiting (EBHV) state grant

The state-funded EBHV grant provides funds to local public health agencies, tribal nations, and non-profit organizations to implement evidence-based home visiting programs.