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Indian Child and Family Education

Program Information

Popular name

(FACE)

Program Number

15.043

Program objective

The Family And Child Education (FACE) program is designed to serve families with children from prenatal to age 5 in home and center-based settings. Families may receive services in one or both settings. FACE provides early childhood for all children from birth - to age five and adult education for their parents through family literacy, parental involvement, increasing school readiness, high school graduation rates among Indian parents, and encouraging life-long learning.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    No Current Data Available. No Information Available.

  2. 2017

    No Information Available.

  3. 2018

    No Information Available.

  4. 2020

    Indian Affairs fulfilled program objectives by issuing a combined four Self Determination awards and one Cooperative Agreement in FY2020.

  5. 2021

    Indian Affairs issued 7 new awards and modifications to existing awards to 7 recipients.

  6. 2022

    Awards 14 grants to entities to complete the goals and objectives of the program.

  7. 2024

    This award funded 50 programs for cultural and language enhancement, teacher and counselor salary, safe and secure schools, transportation.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

A copy of the guidelines may be obtained by contacting the Education Line Officers.

  1. Indian Education Amendments of 1978, Public Law 95-561, 25 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • American Indian
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Native American Organizations

Additional resources