[Federal Register: October 13, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 197)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Award
Announcement
AGENCY: Administration on Children, Youth and Families, ACF, HHS.
ACTION: Award announcement.
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SUMMARY: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and
Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), herein announces the awarding of twenty-
eight urgent grant awards in order to enable seventeen Mentoring
Children of Prisoner Programs and eleven Training and Technical
Assistance providers to respond immediately to hurricane disaster
evacuee needs in their States and local communities. The effects of
Hurricane Katrina have disrupted the ability of the children whose
parents are incarcerated to receive mentoring services due to their
forced relocation throughout the nation. As a result, FYSB's network of
mentoring grantees and training and technical assistance providers are
uniquely positioned to respond to the increase in the numbers of
children of incarcerated parents arriving in their new communities. The
following agencies are receiving grant funds for a twelve month project
period: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Heart, Macon, Georgia, in the
amount of $95,000; State of Alabama Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Board, Montgomery, Alabama, in the amount of $50,000; YMCA of Greater
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, in the amount of $50,000; Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, in the
amount of $95,000; Family and Children's Agency, Inc., Norwalk,
Connecticut, in the amount of $21,350; America on Track of Santa Ana,
California in the amount of $95,000; Volunteers in Prevention,
Probation and Prisons, Detroit,
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Michigan, in the amount of $95,000; Centerforce, Inc. of San Rafael,
California in the amount of $63,170; Big Brothers Big sisters of Boone
County, Columbia, Missouri, in the amount of $95,000; Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, in the amount of $95,000;
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education, Providence, Rhode Island, in the
amount of $13,900; Mississippi Gulf Coast YMCA, Ocean Springs,
Mississippi, in the amount of $99,553; Families Under Urban and Social
Attacks, Houston, Texas, in the amount of $56,250; Big Buddy Program,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the amount of $90,000; Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, in the amount of $95,000; Big Brothers
Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, in the amount of
$95,000; Pima Prevention Partnership, Tucson, Arizona, in the amount of
$33,936; The University of Oklahoma National Resource Center for Youth
Services, Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the amount of $700,000; Mid-Atlantic
Network of Youth and Family Services, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the
amount of $100,000; Youth Network Council, Chicago, Illinois, in the
amount of $100,000; Southeastern Network of Youth and Family Services,
Bonita Springs, Florida, in the amount of $100,000; Empire State
Coalition of Youth and Family Services, New York, New York, in the
amount of $100,000; Northwest Network of Runaway and Youth Services,
Seattle, Washington, in the amount of $100,000; Western States Youth
Services Network, Petaluma, California, in the amount of $100,000; New
England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services, Burlington,
Vermont, in the amount of $100,000; Southwest Network of Youth
Services, Austin, Texas, in the amount of $100,000; Mountain Plains
Network for Youth, Bismarck, North Dakota, in the amount of $100,000;
MINK Network of Runaway and Homeless Youth Services, Lenexa, Kansas, in
the amount of $65,000.
The seventeen Mentoring Children of Prisoners Programs will be
responsible for reconnecting or establishing new mentoring
relationships with evacuated children of incarcerated persons in their
new communities. In addition to the seventeen Mentoring Children of
Prisoners Programs being funded, the Family and Youth Services Bureau
is funding eleven Training and Technical Assistance providers that will
provide specialized technical assistance to the Mentoring Children of
Prisoners Program grantees in their respective regions. The eleven
Training and Technical Assistance Providers are well positioned to
assist the seventeen Mentoring Children of Prisoners Programs in
identifying children of incarcerated persons who are new to a
community, developing a plan to provide them with mentoring support and
coordinating services with other programs, Federal staff and their
contractors.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Curtis O. Porter, Director, Youth
Development Division, Family and Youth Services Bureau, 330 C Street,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Phone: 202-205-8102.
Dated: October 6, 2005.
Joan E. Ohl,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
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