[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 55 (Friday, March 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 13623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7191]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging
[Program Announcement No. AoA-97-3]


Fiscal Year 1997 Program Announcement; Availability of Funds and 
Notice Regarding Applications

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.

ACTION: Announcement of availability of funds and request for 
applications to develop new Family Friends/Volunteer Senior Aides (VSA) 
projects and, in addition, to provide training and technical assistance 
to Family Friends/VSA projects, as well as to conduct an evaluation of 
the Family Friends/VSA program.

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SUMMARY: The Administration on Aging announces that it will hold a 
grant award competition, under this announced priority area, for five 
(5) to seven (7) new model projects that demonstrate effective ways of 
planning, developing, and sustaining Family Friends/VSA programs, for a 
project to provide appropriate training and technical assistance to 
Friends/VSA projects, and for a project to conduct an evaluation of the 
Family Friends/VSA program.
    The deadline date for the submission of applications is June 6, 
1997. For the model project competition, eligible applicants are 
restricted to public or nonprofit community-level agencies or 
organizations. In addition, because the primary focus of this priority 
area is on the establishment of new model Family Friends/VSA projects 
in communities other than those which have already been program sites, 
those agencies or organizations that have carried out Family Friends/
VSA projects are not eligible for this competition. No applicant 
eligibility restrictions, other than public or nonprofit status, apply 
to the training/technical assistance and program evaluation 
competitions.
    Application kits are available by writing to the Department of 
Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, Office of Program 
Development, 330 Independence Avenue SW., Room 4274, Washington, DC 
20201, or by calling 202/619-1269.

    Dated: March 18, 1997.
Robyn I. Stone,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 97-7191 Filed 3-20-97; 8:45 am]
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