Adoption Assistance in Arkansas

Arkansas x 93.659 is an Adoption Assistance join, not a case census

This page pairs CFDA 93.659, ADOPTION ASSISTANCE, with Arkansas place of performance. Adoption Assistance, in program language, is a Title IV-E listing that helps states with subsidies and related costs for eligible adopted children from foster care. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $253,151,374 on seven awards. The extract does not list children served, average subsidy, or wait times. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state needs the program more, and not a claim that seven awards equal that many local offices.

Other HHS child-welfare listings — Foster Care Title IV-E on 93.658, child-support services, or different IV-E codes — sit outside $253,151,374 unless they also carry 93.659. Mixing Adoption Assistance with Foster Care Title IV-E would invent a combined child-welfare figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and local need statistics is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. Place of performance as Arkansas locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $253,151,374 in the state treasury, and it does not prove every dollar stayed inside Arkansas after subawards.

Seven awards behind $253,151,374

Mean obligation is about $36.16 million if $253,151,374 were divided evenly across seven lines. That ratio is not a published grant size. Formula-style or project awards often post as a handful of large rows to a lead agency or a small set of recipients. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a census of adopted children or a count of adoptive families.

Seven awards are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Adoption Assistance in Arkansas for the stored table. Do not convert seven awards into a map of Arkansas providers. The $253,151,374 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring an inventory.

Questions

How much Adoption Assistance is obligated in Arkansas?

USAspending.gov shows $253,151,374 in obligations for CFDA 93.659 with Arkansas as place of performance, across seven awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not the state's entire federal-spending total. Other HHS listings are outside this join unless they also carry 93.659.

Do 7 awards mean 7 Arkansas adoptive families received subsidies?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of adopted children or a count of adoptive families. The packet does not name recipients. See the Arkansas 93.659 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this Arkansas's entire child-welfare budget?

No. The join is CFDA 93.659 crossed with Arkansas place of performance. Related programs on other CFDA numbers are not inside $253,151,374 unless the award also carries 93.659. Mixing Adoption Assistance with Foster Care Title IV-E would invent a combined child-welfare figure the packet never computed.

Is the Adoption Assistance total already paid in Arkansas?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $253,151,374 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet.