[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1351.10]

[Page 259]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 1351_RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart B_Runaway and Homeless Youth Program Grant
 
Sec.  1351.10  What is the purpose of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program 


grant?

    The purpose of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program grant is to 
establish or strengthen existing or proposed community-based runaway and 
homeless youth projects to provide temporary shelter and care to runaway 
or otherwise homeless youth who are in need of temporary shelter, 
counseling and aftercare services. The Department is concerned about the 
increasing numbers of youth who leave, and stay away from, their homes 
without permission of their families. There is also national concern 
about runaway and homeless youth who have no resources, who live on the 
street, and who represent law enforcement problems in the communities to 
which they run. The problems of runaway or otherwise homeless youth 
should not be the responsibility of already overburdened police 
departments and juvenile justice authorities. Rather, Congress intends 
that the responsibility for locating, assisting, and returning such 
youth should be placed with low-cost, community-based human service 
programs.