[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 130 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36610-36643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17655]



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Part II





Department of Health and Human Services





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Administration for Children and Families



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Announcement of the Availability of Financial Assistance and Request 
for Applications To Support Child Welfare Training Projects; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families
[Program Announcement No. CB 97-11]


Announcement of the Availability of Financial Assistance and 
Request for Applications To Support Child Welfare Training Projects

AGENCY: Administration on Children, Youth and Families, ACF, DHHS.

ACTION: Announcement of the availability of financial assistance and 
request for applications to support child welfare training projects.

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SUMMARY: The Children's Bureau (CB) within the Administration on 
Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Administration for Children and 
Families, announces the availability of fiscal year 1997 funds for 
competing new discretionary grants to public and private non-profit 
accredited institutions of higher learning to develop and improve 
educational and training programs and to assist child welfare agencies 
to enhance skills and build capacity of staff to achieve planned 
outcomes.
    This announcement contains forms and instructions for submitting an 
application.

CLOSING DATE: The closing time and date for the receipt of applications 
under this announcement is 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone), on August 22, 
1997. Applications received after 4:30 p.m. of the closing date will be 
classified as late. Post marks and other similar documents DO NOT 
establish receipt of an application.

DEADLINE: Mailed applications shall be considered as meeting an 
announced deadline if they are received on or before the deadline time 
and date at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
Administration for Children and Families, Division of Discretionary 
Grants, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., Mail Stop 6C-462, Washington, 
D.C. 20447. Attention: Children's Bureau Discretionary Training Funds 
Program (Specify Priority Area 1, 2, 3, or 4).
    Applications hand-carried by applicants, applicant courier, or by 
overnight/express mail couriers shall be considered as meeting an 
announced deadline if they are received on or before the deadline 
receipt date, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (EST), at 
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for 
Children and Families, Division of Discretionary Grants, ACF Mailroom, 
2nd Floor Loading Dock, Aerospace Center, 901 D Street, S.W., 
Washington, DC 20024, between Monday and Friday (excluding Federal 
holidays). Attention: Children's Bureau Discretionary Training Funds 
Program (Specify Priority Area 1, 2, 3, or 4). Any application received 
after 4:30 p.m. on the deadline date will not be considered for 
competition. Applicants using express/overnight services should allow 
for two working days prior to the deadline date for receipt of 
applications.
    ACF cannot accommodate transmission of applications by fax or 
through other electronic media. Therefore, applications transmitted to 
ACF electronically will not be accepted regardless of date or time of 
submission and time of receipt. Envelopes containing applications must 
clearly indicate the specific priority area that the application is 
addressing.
    Late applications: Applications which do not meet the above 
criteria are considered late applications. ACF shall notify each late 
applicant that its application will not be considered in the current 
competition.
    Extension of Deadlines: ACF may extend the deadline for all 
applicants because of acts of God such as floods, hurricanes, etc., or 
when there is a widespread disruption of the mails. However, if ACF 
does not extend the deadline for all applicants, it may not waive or 
extend the deadline for any applicant.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The ACYF Operations Center, Technical 
Assistance Team (telephone number 1-800-351-2293) is available to 
answer questions regarding application requirements and to refer you to 
the appropriate contact person in ACYF for programmatic questions.

INTENT TO APPLY: If you plan to submit an application, within two weeks 
of the receipt of this announcement, send a post card or call in the 
following information: the name, address and telephone number of the 
contact person; the name of the organization; and the priority area(s) 
in which you may submit an application to: Administration on Children 
Youth and Families, Operations Center, 3030 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 
240, Arlington, VA 22201, ATTN: Child Welfare Training Program. The 
telephone number is 1-800-351-2293. This information will be used to 
determine the number of expert reviewers needed and to update the 
mailing list of persons to whom the program announcement is sent.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This program announcement consists of five 
parts. Part I provides information on the Children's Bureau. Part II 
describes the review process and funding decisions, additional 
requirements for the grant applications, and the programmatic 
priorities for which applications are being requested. Part III 
provides information on the application requirements. Part IV describes 
the evaluation criteria. Part V provides the instructions for the 
development and submission of applications.

Outline of Announcement

Part I: General Information
    A. Background
    B. Statutory Authority Covered Under This Announcement
Part II: Review Process and Priority Areas
    A. Eligible Applicants
    B. Review Process and Funding Decisions
    C. Evaluation Process
    D. Structure of Priority Area Descriptions
    E. Available Funds
    F. Grantee Share of Project Costs
    G. Priority Areas
    H. Priority Area Descriptions
Part III. Application Requirements
    A. Objectives and Needs for Assistance
    B. Results and Benefits
    C. Approach
    Priority Area 1
    Priority Area 2
    Priority Area 3
    Priority Area 4
    D. Staff Background and Organizational Experience
    E. Budget Appropriateness
Part IV: Evaluation Criteria
    A. Criterion 1: Objectives and Need for Assistance
    B. Criterion 2: Results and Benefits Expected
    C. Criterion 3: Approach
    D. Criterion 4: Staff Background and Organizational Experience
    E. Criterion 5: Budget Appropriateness
Part V: Instructions for the Development and Submission of 
Applications for FY 1997
    A. Availability of Forms
    B. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
    C. Required Notification of the State Single Point of Contact
    D. Deadline for Submission of Applications
    E. Instructions for Preparing the Application and Completing 
Application Forms
    1. SF 424 Page 1, Application Cover Sheet
    2. SF 424A--Budget Information, Non-Construction Programs
    3. Project Summary Description
    4. Program Narrative Statement
    5. Organizational Capability Statement
    6. Assurances/Certifications
    F. Checklist for a Complete Application
    G. The Application Package

Part I. General Information

A. Background

    The Administration on Children, Youth and Families administers 
national Federal programs for children

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and youth; works with States, Tribes, and local communities to develop 
services which support and strengthen family life and protect children; 
seeks joint ventures with the private sector to enhance the lives of 
children and their families; and provides information and other 
assistance related to child welfare programs.
    The concerns of ACYF extend to all children from birth through 
adolescence, with particular emphasis on children who have special 
needs. Many of the programs administered by the agency focus on 
children from low-income families; children and youth in need of 
protective services, foster care, adoption or other child welfare 
services; preschool children, including children with disabilities; 
abused and neglected children; runaway and homeless youth; and children 
from American Indian and migrant families.
    Within ACYF, the Children's Bureau plans, manages, coordinates, and 
supports child welfare services programs. It administers the Foster 
Care and Adoption Assistance Program, the Child Welfare Services State 
Grants Program, the Family Preservation and Support Program, the 
Independent Living Program, the Child Welfare Services Training 
Program, the Adoption Opportunities Program, and the Abandoned Infants 
Assistance Program.
    The Children's Bureau programs are designed to promote the welfare 
of all children, including disabled, homeless, dependent, abused or 
neglected children and their families. The programs also encourage 
strengthening of the family unit to help alleviate unnecessary 
separation of children from their families and reunify families where 
possible, when separation has occurred. Where reunification is not 
possible, rapid movement into adoption or other form of permanency 
placement is necessary.

B. Statutory Authority Covered Under This Announcement

    Section 426 of the Social Security Act, as amended. 42 U.S.C. 626, 
CFDA: 93.648. Under this section, funds are authorized each fiscal year 
for grants to public or other non-profit institutions of higher 
learning for special projects for training personnel for work in the 
field of child welfare, including traineeships with such stipends and 
allowances as may be permitted by DHHS.

Part II. Review Process and Priority Areas

A. Eligible Applicants

    Each priority area description contains information about the types 
of agencies and organizations which are eligible to apply under that 
priority area. Each application will be screened for applicant 
organization eligibility as specified under the selected priority area. 
Applications from ineligible organizations will not be considered or 
reviewed in the competition, and the applicant will be so informed.
    Only agencies and organizations, not individuals, are eligible to 
apply under this Announcement. All applications developed jointly by 
more than one agency or organization must identify only one lead 
organization and official applicant. Participating agencies and 
organizations can be included as co-participants, subgrantees or 
subcontractors. For-profit organizations are eligible to participate as 
subgrantees or subcontractors with eligible non-profit organizations 
under all priority areas.
    Any non-profit organization submitting an application must submit 
proof of its non-profit status in its application at the time of 
submission. The non-profit agency can accomplish this by providing a 
copy of the applicant's listing in the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) 
most recent list of tax-exempt organizations as described in Section 
501(c)(3) of the IRS code, or by providing a copy of the current valid 
IRS tax exemption certification, or by providing a copy of the articles 
of incorporation bearing the seal of the State in which the corporation 
or association is domiciled.

B. Review Process and Funding Decisions

    Timely applications received by the deadline date which are from 
eligible applicants will be reviewed and scored competitively. Experts 
in the field, generally persons outside the Federal government, will 
use the appropriate evaluation criteria listed later in this section to 
review and score the applications. The results of this review are a 
primary factor in making funding decisions.
    The ACYF reserves the option of discussing applications with, or 
referring them to, other Federal or non-Federal funding sources when 
this is in the best interest of the Federal government or the 
applicants. ACYF may also solicit comments from ACF Regional Office 
staff, other Federal agencies, interested foundations, national 
organizations, specialists, experts, States and the general public. 
These comments, along with those of the expert reviewers, will be 
considered by ACYF in making funding decisions.
    To the greatest extent possible, efforts will be made to ensure 
that funding decisions reflect an equitable distribution of assistance 
among the States and geographical regions of the country, rural and 
urban areas, and ethnic populations. In making these decisions, ACYF 
may also take into account the need to avoid unnecessary duplication of 
effort.

C. Evaluation Process

    A panel of at least three reviewers (primarily experts from outside 
the Federal government) will review the applications. To facilitate 
this review, applicants should ensure that they address each minimum 
requirement in the priority area description under the appropriate 
section of the Program Narrative Statement. Applicants are encouraged 
to use job titles and not specific names in developing the application 
budget. However, the specific salary rates or amounts for staff 
positions identified must be included in the application budget.
    The reviewers will determine the strengths and weaknesses of each 
application using the evaluation criteria listed below, provide 
comments and assign numerical scores. The point value following each 
criterion heading indicates the maximum numerical weight.

D. Structure of Priority Area Descriptions

    Each priority area description is composed of the following 
sections:
    Eligible Applicants: This section specifies the type of 
organization eligible to apply under the particular priority area. 
Specific restrictions are also noted, where applicable.
    Purpose: This section presents the basic focus and/or broad goal(s) 
of the priority area.
    Background Information: This section briefly discusses the 
legislative background as well as the current state-of-the-art and/or 
current state-of-practice that supports the need for the particular 
priority area activity. Relevant information on projects previously 
funded by ACYF or others are noted, where applicable.
    Minimum Requirements for Project Design: This section presents the 
basic set of issues that must be addressed in the application. 
Typically, they relate to project design, evaluation, and other 
organizational or community involvement. This section also asks for 
specific information on the proposed

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project. Inclusion and discussion of these items is important since 
they will be used by the reviewers in evaluating the applications 
against the evaluation criteria. Project products, continuation of the 
project effort after the Federal support ceases, and dissemination/
utilization activities, if appropriate, are also addressed.
    Project Duration: This section specifies the maximum allowable 
length of time for the project period and refers to the amount of time 
for which Federal funding is available, including any extensions.
    Federal Share of Project Cost: This section specifies the maximum 
amount of Federal support for the project for the first budget year.
    Matching Requirement: This section specifies the minimum non-
Federal contribution, either through cash or in-kind match, required in 
relation to the maximum Federal funds requested for the project. The 
applicant must assure that the proposed budget meets or exceeds the 
cost sharing or match requirement. Grantees must provide at least 25 
percent of the total approved cost of the project. The total approved 
cost of the project is the sum of the ACF share and the non-Federal 
share. The non-Federal share may be met by cash or in-kind 
contributions, although applicants are encouraged to meet their match 
requirements through cash contributions. For example, a grantee with 
$100,000 grant award (Federal funds) should commit no less than $33,334 
each budget period, i.e., 25 percent of the $133,334 in total project 
costs.
    Anticipated Number of Projects To Be Funded: This section specifies 
the number of projects ACYF anticipates it will fund under the priority 
area.
    Please note that applications that do not comply with the specific 
priority area requirements in the section on ``Eligible Applicants'' 
will not be reviewed. Applicants should also note that non-
responsiveness to the section ``Minimum Requirements for Project 
Design'' will result in a low evaluation score by the reviewers. 
Applicants must clearly identify the specific priority area under which 
they wish to have their applications considered, and tailor their 
applications accordingly. Previous experience has shown that an 
application which is broader and more general in concept than outlined 
in the priority area description scores lower than one more clearly 
focused on, and directly responsive to, that specific priority area.

E. Available Funds

    The ACYF intends to award new grants resulting from this 
announcement during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 1997, subject to 
the availability of funds. The size of the actual awards will vary.
    Under this announcement, approximately $3.5 million is available 
for FY 1997. Each priority area description includes information on the 
maximum Federal share of the project costs and the anticipated number 
of projects to be funded.
    The term ``budget period'' refers to the interval of time (usually 
12 months) into which a multi-year period of assistance (project 
period) is divided for budgetary and funding purposes. The term 
``project period'' refers to the total time a project is approved for 
support, including any extensions.
    Where appropriate, applicants may propose project periods which are 
shorter than the maximums specified in the various priority areas. Non-
Federal share contributions may exceed the minimums specified in the 
various priority areas when the applicant is able to do so. However, if 
the proposed match exceeds the minimum requirement, the grantee must 
meet its proposed level of match support before the end of the project 
period. Applicants should propose only that non-Federal share they can 
realistically provide since any unmatched Federal funds will be 
disallowed by ACF.
    For multi-year projects, continued Federal funding beyond the first 
budget period is dependent upon satisfactory performance by the 
grantee, availability of funds from future appropriations, and a 
determination that continued funding is in the best interest of the 
Government.

F. Grantee Share of Project Costs

    Grantees must provide at least 25 percent of the total approved 
cost of the project. The total approved cost of the project is the sum 
of the ACF share and the non-Federal share. The non-Federal share may 
be met by cash or in-kind contributions, although applicants are 
encouraged to meet their match requirements through cash contributions. 
Therefore, a project requesting $300,000 in Federal funds (based on an 
award of $100,000 per budget period), must include a match of at least 
$100,000 (25 percent of the total cost of the project). If approved for 
funding, grantee will be held accountable for commitments of non-
Federal resources and failure to provide the required amount will 
result in a disallowance of unmatched Federal funds.

G. Priority Areas

    Priority Area 1: Interdisciplinary Training For Public Agency 
Workers and Supervisors to Improve Child Welfare Services.
    Priority Area 2: Training for Managers to Support Outcome-based 
Management in Child Welfare.
    Priority Area 3: Cross-Program Training of Public Agency Workers to 
Conduct Intake for Comprehensive Family Needs Assessment, Including 
Stress and Strength Areas, and Service Requirements.
    Priority Area 4: Training for Determining Adult Relatives as 
Preferred Caretakers in Permanency Planning.

H. Priority Area Descriptions

Priority Area 1--Interdisciplinary Training For Public Agency Workers 
and Supervisors to Improve Child Welfare Services
    Eligible Applicants: Public or non-profit institutions of higher 
education with accredited social work education programs, or other 
accredited bachelor or graduate level programs leading to a degree 
relevant to work in child welfare.
    Purpose: To develop a competency-based interdisciplinary training 
curriculum and a training plan to enhance and strengthen the capacity 
of child welfare workers and supervisors to respond to complex family 
problems of child abuse and neglect resulting from substance abuse, 
mental illness, and domestic violence, which require effective 
interdisciplinary service coordination necessary to achieve child 
safety and permanency goals.
    Background Information: A Departmental study in progress indicates 
that children who have caretakers with substance abuse and mental 
health problems are more likely to be placed in foster care than 
children who do not have caretakers with such problems. Preliminary 
analysis of this data also found that 54% of the caretakers had 
substance abuse and 55% mental health problems. Domestic violence was 
the presenting problem in 11% of the IV-E foster care and non-IV-E 
foster care cases who were involved in the child welfare system.
    Families and children in the child welfare system exhibit multiple 
problems, requiring specialized community-based services. Because of 
the increasingly complex nature of the family problems, the public 
agency staff are continuously challenged to provide comprehensive 
services such as medical, legal, psychological, educational and/or 
training necessary to address diverse family needs. Families

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need an integrated service strategy to address their multiple problem 
areas. This effort necessitates the use of a multi-disciplinary team 
approach to achieve child safety and permanency goals.
    The capacity of the public agencies to make sound decisions 
regarding safety and permanency is contingent upon the staffs' ability 
to understand the predisposing family conditions that contribute to the 
entry of children into the foster care system. An understanding of the 
family dynamics and issues of substance abuse, mental health and 
domestic violence as social problems is critical to determining 
appropriate services needed to achieve family preservation goals.
    Interdisciplinary training is an important way to build staff 
capacity to facilitate effective collaboration between child welfare 
and other professionals who also serve the same population. 
Interdisciplinary service coordination is therefore critical to the 
success of a case plan. This process also requires a holistic on-going 
assessment, treatment strategy, and monitoring to evaluate the progress 
made by families. It requires skills in asking the right questions that 
go beyond the presenting problems to determine underlying psycho-social 
problems that require solutions. It requires an understanding of 
various disciplines which are governed by their own theoretical 
systems, service philosophies and intervention approaches and how to 
collaborate with these disciplines on behalf of the families in the 
child welfare system.
    The Family Preservation and Support Services Act of 1993 emphasized 
the importance of service integration to stabilize families and enhance 
environmental opportunities for normal child development. In recent 
years, the Department has supported curriculum development projects 
that emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration. For example, in 1991, 
the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect funded 94 
interdisciplinary training projects that focused on linkages between 
substance abuse and child maltreatment. During the same period, the 
Office of Community Services' collaborative grants project also 
highlighted the need to develop inter-program training curricula to 
improve coordination between the child support enforcement programs and 
domestic violence programs. In 1991, the funding of the cooperative 
agreement between the Children's Bureau and the Florida International 
University and the funding of 11 interdisciplinary child welfare 
training grants also indicate the importance of this priority area. In 
FY 1997, under the Abandoned Infants Assistance Program, the Children's 
Bureau will continue to fund several demonstrations that will focus on 
comprehensive services for the abandoned infants and infants at risk of 
abandonment and their families who are affected by substance abuse and 
the human immunodeficiency virus.
    While the need for interdisciplinary training for public child 
welfare workers and supervisors has been recognized, few training 
programs have been developed with sufficient emphasis on multi-
disciplinary coordination in areas of substance abuse, mental health 
and domestic violence. This priority area will specifically focus on 
developing curricula and training to enhance increasing knowledge and 
practice skills in the areas of: (1) substance abuse, mental health and 
domestic violence as social problems; (2) developing assessment, 
interdisciplinary coordination and monitoring skills to evaluate 
progress in family situations; and (3) integrating various professional 
disciplines' framework and programs (e.g., health, mental health, 
juvenile justice, law enforcement, substance abuse counseling, child 
care, Child Support Enforcement, Head Start, and Temporary Assistance 
to Needy Families programs) which are governed by their own theoretical 
systems, service philosophies and intervention approaches. Funding from 
this priority area is expected to be used to develop an 
interdisciplinary training curriculum, to deliver training, and to 
evaluate the effectiveness of the training provided to the child 
welfare staff.
    Minimum Requirements for Project Design: To compete successfully 
under this priority area, the applicant must:
     Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of 
interdisciplinary training issues specific to the substance abuse, 
mental health, and domestic violence problems found in the child 
welfare population throughout the country. Discuss how the proposed 
project will build on the existing knowledge and evaluations of such 
projects and will add innovative dimensions to achieve the 
interdisciplinary training goals.
     Describe past and/or current collaborative efforts between 
the educational programs and the public (State/local and Tribal) 
agencies. Describe how this project will build on existing partnerships 
with such agencies.
     Discuss an approach to developing a theoretical and 
practice-based curriculum that integrates substance abuse, mental 
health, and domestic violence issues as these relate to child abuse and 
neglect. Describe the need for such training for the public child 
welfare staff in specific and child welfare professionals in general. 
Also describe the contents of the proposed interdisciplinary training 
curriculum.
     Describe the proposed curriculum and discuss how it builds 
on, expands, and strengthens the existing curriculum approaches/ 
models. The applicant must explain the preliminary planning and 
coordination activities with other disciplines in the development and 
execution of the training curriculum. Discuss the approach to teaching 
a competency-based interdisciplinary curriculum and the use of other 
disciplines to teach in various components of the training curriculum 
to achieve the project objectives.
     Describe how the public child welfare agency staff and 
community agencies providing services to families with substance abuse 
and domestic violence problems will be involved in the development of 
the curriculum.
     Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level 
of the child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the 
life of the project; selection criteria for trainee recruitment; and 
specific strategies for recruiting minority and Tribal agency trainees. 
There should also be a consideration to include individuals from the 
community agencies that provide services to the child welfare 
population.
     Describe any interactive and long distance training, 
including video technology, if any, that will be part of this effort.
     Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating 
the interdisciplinary training curriculum, including the timelines.
     Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each 
task to be accomplished to match the scope of the project. It must also 
describe the timeframes for: the development of the proposed 
interdisciplinary training curriculum; coordination with various 
disciplines in the proposed tasks; training the public agency staff; 
evaluation of the project; and submission of the interim progress and 
final reports and the final products.
     Describe the proposed plan for the evaluation of the 
project. Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based 
interdisciplinary curriculum will be assessed.
     Describe the applicant's experience in developing and 
providing interdisciplinary training in child welfare. Also describe 
the applicant's history and relationship with the targeted public child 
welfare agency. Include a discussion of the relevant

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programs, administrative and fiscal management experience.
     Identify and provide a brief description of key staff who 
are proposed to work in this project, indicating their education, 
experience in working in similar programs and training/teaching 
experiences that are relevant to achieving the project goals. Include 
their resumes.
     Describe the qualifications and experience of the 
individuals who will assist in: developing the curriculum; training of 
the public agency staff; and evaluating the project. Include their 
resumes.
     Identify and describe the administrative and 
organizational interface required in this project (State agency, 
community agencies, academic departments, other disciplines, 
institutions, etc.). Also include interagency agreements and 
commitments obtained from the participating entities.
     Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
university and one from the public child welfare agency will jointly 
attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly after the 
award of the grant and participate in a four-day annual meeting in 
Washington, D.C.
    Project Duration: The length of the project must not exceed 36 
months.
    Federal Share of Project Costs: The Federal share is not to exceed 
$150,000 for the first 12 month budget period or $450,000 for a three 
year project period.
    Matching Requirements: For each budget period with an award of 
$150,000 (Federal funds), the non-Federal share would be no less than 
$50,000 (i.e., 25 percent of the total project cost of $200,000). The 
non-Federal share may be met by cash or in-kind contributions, although 
applicants are encouraged to meet their match requirements through a 
cash contribution. Funds from this grant cannot be used to match title 
IV-E training funds.
    Anticipated Number of Projects: It is anticipated that four or five 
projects will be funded, depending on availability of funds.
    Length of Proposal: The length of the narrative, including the 
appendices, must be limited to 60 pages.
    CFDA Number: 93.648 Child Welfare Training Program Grants: Section 
426 of the Social Security Act.
Priority Area 2--Training for Managers To Support Outcome-based 
Management in Child Welfare
    Eligible Applicants: Public or non-profit institutions of higher 
education with accredited social work education programs, or other 
accredited bachelor or graduate level programs leading to a degree 
relevant to work in child welfare.
    Purpose: To support and promote management capabilities in the use 
of the child welfare program data to: (1) identify outcomes to be 
achieved; (2) create ownership of the data by the staff; (3) develop a 
strategy for the planned use of the data to track performance; and (4) 
identify training needs to build staff capacity to improve program 
outcomes. To achieve this objective, this priority will focus on 
developing a training curriculum to build managerial capacity for 
effectively using the child welfare program data for the purposes of 
developing and instituting an outcome-based management strategy that 
will focus on program outcomes, tracking performance at all agency 
levels, and removing barriers to achieving child welfare outcomes.
    Background Information: Public sector agencies are increasingly 
exploring ways to improve management practices which focus on results 
rather than process. Managing for results and outcome-based management 
have become central to demonstrating the effectiveness of an agency in 
managing its child welfare program in terms of child safety, 
permanency, and well-being goals.
    Although specifically mandated for federal agencies, the Government 
Performance Review Act provides guidelines for developing measurable 
outcomes that can be used to evaluate an agency's success in achieving 
its mission and goals. The American Humane Association, an affiliate of 
the American Public Welfare Association, holds roundtable discussions 
to increase knowledge and understanding of outcome measures and the 
elements of effective outcome-based models in child welfare. The Family 
Preservation and Support Services Program also requires States to 
describe the goals to be accomplished and the methods to be used to 
measure progress toward accomplishing these goals. Other performance 
and outcome-based management models used successfully by industries 
could also have practical applications for child welfare agencies.
    Theoretically, continuous improvement strategies are built upon 
ongoing monitoring of results and understanding factors that influence 
outcomes. A results-orientated management plan should be based on 
decisions resulting from the review of various sources of State/federal 
or other systems data, including internal and external program and 
fiscal audits; data obtained from the periodic review and monitoring of 
the outcomes on the front-lines of the agency; cost-effectiveness 
reports; and finally an assessment of funding sources and their impact 
on program outcomes.
    To enable child welfare agencies to strengthen the transition 
toward results-oriented performance, it is essential that they 
determine ways to enhance and build capacity of the management staff in 
this area. It is also desirable for child welfare agencies to take 
advantage of the new technologies and information sources, such as 
SACWIS (Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems), AFCARS 
(Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System) and NCANDS 
(National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System) to enhance management 
practices and to measure the service outcomes of the child welfare 
agency. Although these data are not yet available for all States, they 
reflect certain commonalities that could be useful for developing 
effective management measures. Other child welfare data sources could 
also be explored for management decisions.
    Outcomes can also be planned in accordance with the public laws and 
regulations which govern foster care and adoption assistance and family 
preservation and support services programs. Additionally, child welfare 
practice knowledge should also provide critical information for 
developing outcome-based and results-oriented management plans. 
Training of the top and mid-level managerial staff who are involved in 
the decision making process is therefore critical to promoting outcome-
based management in child welfare.
    Minimum Requirements for Project Design: In order to compete 
successfully under this priority area, the applicant must:
     Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theory and 
principles of outcome-based management practices in general and their 
current applications in public child welfare agencies throughout the 
country, including the linkages between program outcomes and effective 
practices. Discuss how the proposed training project will build on the 
existing knowledge and evaluations of these management practices. 
Discuss the innovative dimensions of the proposed training approach 
which focuses on capacity building to improve the child welfare program 
outcomes. Discuss the use of relevant fiscal and program data to 
develop performance goals, use of such analysis for developing 
effective management practices toward achieving interim and final 
performance goals, and evaluating barriers to achieving the intended 
goals.

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     Describe past and/or current collaboration between the 
applicant and the public (State/local and Tribal) agencies. Describe 
how this project will build on existing partnerships with such 
agencies.
     Discuss the proposed approach to developing a theoretical 
and practice-based curriculum that focuses on outcome-based management 
as it relates to child welfare agencies. Describe the need for such 
training for the public agencies' managers. Also describe the contents 
of the proposed outcome-based management training curriculum.
     Describe the proposed training curriculum and discuss how 
it builds on, expands, and strengthens existing curricula to promote 
outcome-based management approaches/models. The applicant must explain 
the preliminary planning and coordination activities with the public 
child welfare agency in developing and executing the training 
curriculum. Also discuss the approach to teaching such a curriculum and 
the use of other disciplines, if any, to teach various components of 
the curriculum to achieve the project objectives.
     Describe the use of new technologies, federal/State data 
systems, other relevant information sources and reports, monitoring 
systems, etc., as components of the proposed training curriculum.
     Describe how the public child welfare agency staff will be 
involved in the development of the curriculum.
     Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level 
of the managerial tier are expected to be trained over the life of the 
project; the criteria for selection of trainees; how the trainees will 
be recruited; and specific strategies which will be used to recruit 
minority and Tribal agency trainees.
     Describe any interactive and long distance training, 
including video technology, if any, that will be part of this effort.
     Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating 
the outcome-based management training curriculum, including the 
timelines.
     Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each 
task to be accomplished to match the scope of the project. It must also 
describe the timeframes necessary for: the development of the proposed 
training curriculum development; coordination with the public child 
welfare agency; coordination and use of other disciplines in the 
curriculum development and training tasks; training of the public 
agency staff; evaluation of the project, and submission of the interim 
progress and final reports, and the final products.
     Describe the proposed plan to evaluate the project. 
Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based training 
curriculum will be assessed.
     Describe the applicant's experience in developing and 
providing outcome-based training relevant to public child welfare 
agencies. Also describe the applicant's history and relationship with 
the targeted public child welfare agency. Include a discussion of the 
relevant programs and administrative and fiscal management experience.
     Identify and provide a brief description of key staff who 
are proposed to work in this project, indicating their education, 
experience in working in similar programs and training/teaching 
experiences relevant to achieving the project goals. Include their 
resumes.
     Describe the qualifications and experience of the 
individuals who will assist in the development of the curriculum, 
training of the public agency staff, and evaluation of the project. 
Include their resumes.
     Identify and describe the administrative and 
organizational interface required in this project (State agency, 
academic departments, other disciplines, institutions, etc.). Also 
include interagency agreements and commitments obtained from the 
participating entities.
     Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
applicant agency and one from the public child welfare agency will 
jointly attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly 
after the award of the grant and participate in a four-day annual 
grantee meeting in Washington, D.C.
    Project Duration: The length of the project must not exceed 36 
months.
    Federal Share of Project Costs: The Federal share is not to exceed 
$150,000 for the first 12 month budget period or $450,000 for a three 
year project period.
    Matching Requirements: For each budget period with an award of 
$150,000 (Federal funds), the non-Federal share would be no less than 
$50,000 (i.e., 25 percent of the total project cost of $200,000). The 
non-Federal share may be met by cash or in-kind contributions, although 
applicants are encouraged to meet their match requirements through a 
cash contribution. Funds from this grant cannot be used to match title 
IV-E training funds.
    Anticipated Number of Projects: It is anticipated that three to 
five projects will be funded, depending on availability of funds.
    Length of Proposal: The length of the narrative, including the 
appendices, must be limited to 60 pages.
    CFDA Number: 93.648 Child Welfare Training Program Grants: Section 
426 of the Social Security Act.
Priority Area 3--Cross-Program Training of Public Agency Workers To 
Conduct Intake for Comprehensive Family Needs Assessment, Including 
Stress and Strength Areas, and Service Requirements
    Eligible Applicants: Public or non-profit institutions of higher 
education with accredited social work education programs, or other 
accredited bachelor or graduate level programs leading to a degree 
relevant to work in child welfare.
    Purpose: To develop a competency-based cross-program training 
curriculum and a training plan to enhance child welfare workers' 
ability and skills to conduct comprehensive assessments of family needs 
at the intake level. The objective of this priority is to build 
capacity of the workers to identify and assess all family conditions, 
including socio-economic factors, family strengths, and areas of stress 
which contribute to child abuse and neglect and which require referrals 
and coordination with other human service programs.
    Background Information: Families and children in the child welfare 
system exhibit multiple problems, requiring referrals to programs that 
specialize in responding to specific needs. However, there appears to 
be a single-factor assessment approach (i.e., primary focus being risks 
to child safety) to evaluating child abuse and neglect. This practice 
method limits the child welfare worker's ability to conduct a 
``holistic'' assessment of the family situation and to develop a 
comprehensive case plan to achieve family sufficiency, child safety, 
and family preservation goals. Many families which experience child 
abuse and neglect will be asked to focus simultaneously on economic 
self-sufficiency and family preservation. Critical to achieving self-
sufficiency is the parents' ability to keep children safe.
    Child abuse and neglect is a multi-problem phenomenon. Complex 
psycho-social factors contribute to child abuse and neglect. Numerous 
studies have also found significant relationships between socio-
economic conditions and the parents' ability to provide safe 
environment for the children. Child abuse and neglect resulting from 
unemployment, lack of job skills, absence of child support, need for 
child care and transportation, and homelessness are well documented and 
require corrective measures. A comprehensive case plan therefore should 
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of family needs as well as strengths and a referral plan to access 
services to meet basic and concrete needs as well.
    Recent major public policy changes demand new expectations from the 
parents and caretakers of children in need. The Temporary Assistance 
for Needy Families (TANF) program, a consolidated Child Care and 
Development Block Grant program, and stricter Child Support Enforcement 
provisions (enacted under the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA)) emphasize family 
responsibility toward achieving self-sufficiency. Rapid entry into 
employment using child care assistance and tracking biological fathers 
to obtain child support are directed to support families in their self-
sufficiency efforts.
    The public agency staff (i.e., child welfare and TANF) are 
continuously challenged to provide comprehensive services in efforts to 
address diverse family needs. Intake is a critical point for 
identifying and assessing conditions that bring a family to the child 
welfare agency. It is also a cross point for determining the types of 
assistance which might be necessary prior to and after the removal of 
the child from the family home. Skills in conducting comprehensive 
assessment require knowledge and understanding of all contributing 
factors, an understanding of the programs designed to address basic 
needs, and coordination with the collaborating agencies.
    Capacity building for effective holistic, family-centered 
assessment at intake requires an understanding of the basic principles 
of such a practice approach. Skills must include making sound, goal-
oriented case plan decisions based on such assessments, including a 
multi-program team approach to achieve child safety and family self-
sufficiency goals. Cross-program training therefore is key to 
developing practice skills to assure collaboration built on the mutual 
understanding of each other's roles, responsibilities, and expected 
performance outcomes.
    The provisions under title IV-B, subpart 2, Family Preservation and 
Support Services emphasize service integration to stabilize families 
and enhance environmental opportunities for normal child development. 
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, 
consolidation of funding of child care to meet the needs of diverse 
working and welfare families, and stricter child support enforcement 
laws--all enacted under the 1996 welfare reform--emphasize cross-
program coordination to achieve the family self-sufficiency goal.
    Although there are no systematic studies, there is sufficient 
anecdotal evidence to suggest that the same families are being served 
concurrently by different programs. This is generally accomplished by 
the families themselves who have basic needs that must be fulfilled. 
Cross-program coordination can be more effectively achieved if the 
child welfare, TANF, and Child Support Enforcement program workers have 
a shared framework and a systematically coordinated approach to the 
intake process to identify all the stress areas that need to be 
addressed. Such a practice approach is critical to a successful case 
plan.
    Holistic intake assessments require learned skills to ask the right 
questions that go beyond the presenting problems. It also requires an 
understanding of relevant human service program policies that govern 
each program's method of assistance and performance. While the need for 
cross-program training for public child welfare workers has been 
recognized, few training programs sufficiently emphasize the need to 
develop holistic intake assessment skills in child welfare practice.
    This priority area will specifically focus on developing curriculum 
and training to enhance and increase knowledge and understanding of: 
(1) TANF, child care, child support programs which are governed by 
their own policies and intervention approaches; and (2) elements of 
holistic assessment, cross-program coordination and monitoring to 
evaluate progress in family situations. Funding for this priority area 
is expected to be used to: develop an inter-program training 
curriculum; deliver training; and evaluate the effectiveness of the 
training.
    Minimum Requirements for Project Design: In order to compete 
successfully under this priority area, the applicant must:
     Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of cross-program 
training issues specific to TANF, child care, and child support 
programs that may be relevant to child welfare and used in other 
programs throughout the country. Discuss how the proposed project will 
build on the existing knowledge of such projects and will add 
innovative dimensions to achieve the cross-training of child welfare 
workers.
     Describe past and/or current collaborative efforts between 
the educational programs and the public (State/local and Tribal) 
agencies. Describe how this project will build on existing partnerships 
with such agencies.
     Discuss an approach to developing a practice-based 
curriculum that focuses on the importance of holistic intake skills 
relevant to the child abuse and neglect population. Describe the need 
for such training for the public child welfare staff in specific and 
child welfare professionals in general. Also describe the contents of 
the proposed cross-program training curriculum.
     Describe the proposed curriculum and discuss how it builds 
on, expands, and strengthens the existing curriculum approaches/models. 
The applicant must explain the preliminary planning and coordination 
activities with other programs in the development and execution of the 
training curriculum. Discuss the approach to teaching a cross-program 
and holistic intake approach and the use of other program staff to 
teach various components of the training curriculum to achieve the 
project objectives.
     Describe how the public child welfare agency staff and the 
TANF, child care and child support program staff will be involved in 
the development of the curriculum.
     Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level 
of child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the life 
of the project; the criteria for selection of trainees; how the 
trainees will be recruited; and specific strategies which will be used 
to recruit minority and Tribal agency trainees. There should also be a 
consideration to include individuals from the aforementioned programs 
that provide services to the child welfare population.
     Describe any interactive and long distance training, 
including video technology if any, that will be part of this effort.
     Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating 
the cross-program training curriculum, including the timelines.
     Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each 
task to be accomplished. It must describe: the timeframes for the 
proposed cross-program training curriculum development; coordination 
with the various programs; training of the public agency staff, 
evaluation of the project; and submission of the interim progress and 
final reports and the final products.
     Describe the proposed plan for the evaluation of the 
project. Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based cross-
program curriculum directed to enhance intake skills will be assessed.
     Describe the applicant's experience in developing and 
providing inter-

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program training in child welfare. Also describe the applicant's 
history and relationship with the targeted public child welfare agency. 
Include a discussion of the relevant programs, administrative and 
fiscal management experience.
     Identify and provide a brief description of key staff who 
are proposed to work in this project, indicating their education, 
experience in working in similar programs and training/teaching 
experiences that are relevant to achieving the project goals. Include 
their resumes.
     Describe the qualifications and experience of the 
individuals who will assist in the development of the curriculum, 
participate in the training of the public agency staff, and conduct 
evaluation of the project. Include their resumes.
     Identify and describe the administrative and 
organizational interface required in this project (State agency, 
community agencies, academic departments, other disciplines, 
institutions, etc.). Also include interagency/inter-program agreements 
and commitments obtained from the participating entities.
     Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
university and one from the public child welfare agency will jointly 
attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly after the 
award of the grant and participate in a four-day annual meeting in 
Washington, D.C.
    Federal Share of Project Costs: The Federal share is not to exceed 
$100,000 for the first 12 month budget period or $300,000 for a three 
year project period.
    Matching Requirements: For each budget period with an award of 
$100,000 (Federal funds), the non-Federal share would be no less than 
$33,334 (i.e., 25 percent of the total project cost of $133,334). The 
non-Federal share may be met by cash or in-kind contributions, although 
applicants are encouraged to meet their match requirements through a 
cash contribution. Funds from this grant cannot be used to match title 
IV-E training funds.
    Anticipated Number of Projects: It is anticipated that four or five 
projects will be funded, depending on availability of funds.
    Length of Proposal: The length of the narrative, including the 
appendices, must be limited to 60 pages.
    CFDA Number: 93.648 Child Welfare Training Program Grants: Section 
426 of the Social Security Act.
Priority Area 4--Training for Determining Adult Relatives as Preferred 
Caretakers in Permanency Planning
    Eligible Applicants: Public or non-profit institutions of higher 
education with accredited social work education programs, or other 
accredited bachelor or graduate level programs leading to a degree 
relevant to work in child welfare.
    Purpose: To develop a competency-based training curriculum and a 
training plan to facilitate the implementation of the new title IV-E 
State plan requirement to consider giving preference to adult relatives 
over non-relatives when determining a placement for a child. The 
objective of such a training is to provide knowledge and skills 
necessary for making decisions regarding the appropriateness of 
relative/kinship care placements in foster care and permanency 
planning.
    Background Information: The Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) amended Sec. 471(a) of 
the Social Security Act (the Act) by adding subsection (18) which 
provides that ``* * * the State shall consider giving preference to an 
adult relative over a non-related caregiver when determining a 
placement for a child provided the relative caregiver meets all 
relevant State child protection standards.'' The Children's Bureau and 
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation are engaged in 
research and demonstration projects that focus on the relative care 
policy. The President's Adoption 2002 initiative requires States to 
further study the legal guardianship issue, which has particular 
significance for relative care. Several States are currently 
experimenting with the relative care policy under the Child Welfare 
demonstration authority provided by Congress and governed by Sec. 1129 
of the Social Security Act. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment 
Act (CAPTA), as amended in 1996, has also authorized grants in support 
of innovative programs and projects in kinship care.
    Placement with relatives has long been recognized as a viable 
alternative in permanency planning for foster care children. 
Historically, for various reasons, parents have placed children with 
relatives as temporary or permanent, formal or informal arrangements, 
without seeking assistance from public agencies. Although relatives 
were not specifically precluded as foster parents under Pub. L. 96-272, 
this group of potential caretakers were not considered as priority 
placements. The provision in PRWORA is the first statutory recognition 
of the preference for relatives in placement of children--a practice 
already in use in many jurisdiction. The recent rapid increase in the 
number of children entering the foster care system has also increased 
demand for foster parents.
    States must revise their title IV-E State plans to include the 
PRWORA provision that they shall consider giving preference to 
relatives when placing children out-of-home, provided such home meets 
all the child protection standards applicable to non-relative foster 
parents. In enacting this law, Congress also took into consideration 
that relative placements could be in the best interest of the child 
because of the existing relationship ties.
    The new provision does not intend for States to conduct exhaustive 
searches for relatives--a process that could delay the prompt placement 
of children. Rather, in situations where a relative is identified as an 
appropriate caregiver, the State is required to consider giving 
preference to that relative. Further, to receive title IV-E assistance 
on behalf of a child, the relative caretaker's home must meet all the 
child protection standards and must be licensed or approved in 
accordance with sections 471(a)(10) and 472(c) of the Act. These 
standards apply primarily to title IV-E eligible children.
    The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-
272) which provides the framework for Federal child welfare programs, 
requires the State to make ``reasonable efforts'' to maintain the 
family. States must also pursue safe reunification of the children with 
their parents as quickly as possible when they are removed from the 
family. These as well as all the other protections and requirements of 
the law, such as case plans and case reviews, judicial and 
administrative reviews to determine the future status of the child, and 
safeguarding all information concerning individuals assisted under the 
title IV-E plan, must also apply to children placed in relative foster 
care. Should it be found that the family situation has not improved 
within a reasonable period of time and it is therefore not feasible to 
return the child home, an alternate plan for permanency must also be 
developed in relative placement cases.
    Additionally, relative care has generated new challenges for the 
foster care system. One of the fundamental issues is how to use 
relative care in a manner that promotes permanency without jeopardizing 
the potential for reunification with birth parents. Agencies must 
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care fits in the continuum of services in the child welfare system. 
These concerns are also central to implementing this PRWORA provision. 
The issues of child safety, relative-parent relationship, supports for 
the relative caretakers and the parent during the reunification period, 
making ``reasonable efforts'' prior to such placements, the need for 
continued State involvement, termination of parental rights, and 
adoption decisions are equally critical in relative care placement 
decisions and permanency planning.
    Capacity building for effective implementation of the Pub. L. 104-
193 provision will necessitate knowledge and skills specific to the 
requirements of this provision. It also requires a focus on the process 
and procedures for determining the appropriateness of the child's 
relative as a foster parent. The training will need to address problems 
and issues that are unique to relative placements and different from 
non-relative foster placements. Skills must also include making sound 
judgments regarding relative placements and their implications for 
permanency planning.
    Minimum Requirements for Project Design: In order to compete 
successfully under this priority area, the applicant must:
     Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of title IV-E 
program requirements, State IV-E program practices relevant to 
relative/kinship care throughout the country, and the new provision of 
Pub. L. 104-193. Discuss how the proposed project will build on the 
existing knowledge of the statute and State practices, and how the 
applicant will address the new requirements regarding preferential 
treatment of relatives in situations where a child must be removed from 
the family home.
     Describe past and/or current collaboration between the 
educational programs and the public (State/local and Tribal) agencies. 
Describe how this project will build on existing partnerships with such 
agencies.
     Discuss an approach to developing a practice-based 
curriculum that focuses on the implementation of the provision of Pub. 
L. 104-193. Describe the need for such training for the public child 
welfare staff in specific and child welfare professionals in general.
     Describe the contents of the proposed curriculum and 
discuss how it will build and expand on the current policies and 
procedures used to identify and license foster care families. The 
applicant must explain the preliminary planning and coordination 
activities with the State child welfare agency. Discuss the approach to 
teaching the curriculum contents and the use of various staff to teach 
the curriculum components to achieve the project objectives.
     Describe how the public child welfare agency staff will be 
involved in developing the curriculum.
     Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level 
of the child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the 
life of the project; the criteria for the selection and recruitment of 
the trainees; and specific strategies to recruit minority and Tribal 
agency trainees.
     Describe any interactive and long distance training, 
including video technology if any, that will be part of this effort.
     Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating 
the relative placement training curriculum, including the timelines.
     Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each 
task to be accomplished. It must describe: the timeframes for the 
proposed curriculum development; coordination with the public agency; 
training of the public agency staff; evaluation of the project; and 
submission of the interim progress and final reports and the final 
products.
     Describe the proposed plan for the evaluation of the 
project. Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based 
curriculum under this priority will be assessed.
     Describe the applicant's experience in developing and 
providing training in child welfare. Also describe the applicant's 
history and relationship with the targeted public child welfare agency. 
Include a discussion of the relevant programs, administrative and 
fiscal management experience.
     Identify and provide a brief description of key staff who 
are proposed to work in this project, indicating their education, 
experience in working in similar programs and training/teaching 
experiences that are relevant to achieving the project goals. Include 
their resumes.
     Describe the qualifications and experience of the 
individuals who will assist in the development of the curriculum, 
participate in the training of the public agency staff, and conduct 
evaluation of the project. Include their resumes.
     Identify and describe the administrative and 
organizational interface required in this project (State agency, 
community agencies, academic departments, other disciplines, 
institutions, etc.). Also include interagency/inter-program agreements 
and commitments obtained from the participating entities.
     Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
university and one from the public child welfare agency will jointly 
attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly after the 
award of the grant as well as participate in a four-day annual meeting 
in Washington, D.C.
    Project Duration: The length of the project must not exceed 36 
months.
    Federal Share of Project Costs: The Federal share is not to exceed 
$100,000 for the first 12 month budget period or $300,000 for a three 
year project period.
    Matching Requirements: For each budget period with an award of 
$100,000 (Federal funds), the non-Federal share would be no less than 
$33,334 (i.e., 25 percent of the total project cost of $133,334). The 
non-Federal share may be met by cash or in-kind contributions, although 
applicants are encouraged to meet their match requirements through a 
cash contribution. Funds from this grant cannot be used to match title 
IV-E training funds.
    Anticipated Number of Projects: It is anticipated that four or five 
projects will be funded, depending on availability of funds.
    Length of Proposal: The length of the narrative, including the 
appendices, must be limited to 60 pages.
    CFDA Number: 93.648 Child Welfare Training Program Grants: Section 
426 of the Social Security Act.

Part III. Application Requirements

    Applicants are required to use the Standard Forms, Certifications, 
Disclosures and Assurances provided under Appendix A. Applications 
submitted for funding under this announcement are considered New 
Applications; and therefore, applicants should follow instructions for 
New Applications.
    New applications must respond to the instructions under Program 
Narrative, Item A--Project Description--Component, and Item D--Budget 
and Budget Justification. In preparing the program narrative statement, 
the applicant should provide the information that the panel will use to 
evaluate and rank the proposal. The information should be concise and 
complete when addressing the activities for which Federal funds are 
being requested. Supporting documents should be included in order to 
present the information clearly and succinctly. Applicants are 
encouraged to provide information on their organizational structure, 
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other information considered to be relevant.
    Under Item A--Project Description--Component, the applicant must 
address the specific information requested under each priority area in 
this program announcement.
    Section A.1--Project Summary/Abstract-- This should be a one page 
or less summary of the project and placed directly after the table of 
contents. This page will not count against the page limitation.
    Section A.5--Evaluation--Provide a narrative that describes a way 
to evaluate: (1) the results of the proposed project on the existing 
training curriculum as well as the impacts resulting from the training 
of the child welfare staff on the quality of service and child welfare 
outcomes; and (2) the process outcomes of the project. State how the 
evaluation will determine the extent to which the project objectives 
have been achieved and which accomplishments of the objectives can be 
attributed to the project itself. Discuss the criteria to be used to 
evaluate the results. Also explain the methodology that will be used to 
determine the training needs specific to the project; the impact to be 
accomplished from the proposed training curriculum; and the benefits to 
be achieved. Describe the procedures the applicant will employ to 
determine whether the project is being conducted in a manner consistent 
with the work plan and discuss the impact of the project effectiveness.
    Section A.6--Geographic Location--should be addressed under the 
Objective and Needs for Training.
    Section A.7--Additional Information--should be addressed under the 
Staff Background and Organizational Experience. Letters of support 
should be included in the appendices.
    Section B.--Non-competing Continuation Applications--Does not apply 
to this announcement.
    Section C.--Supplemental Requests--Does not apply to this 
announcement.
    Section D.--Budget and Budget Justification--provide a line item 
detail and detailed calculations for each budget object class 
identified on the Budget Information form. Detailed calculations must 
include estimation methods, quantities, unit costs and other similar 
quantitative detail sufficient for the calculation to be duplicated. 
The detailed budget must also include a breakout by the funding sources 
identified in block 15 of the SF 424.
    Provide a narrative budget justification which describes how the 
categorical costs are derived. Discuss the necessity, reasonableness, 
and allocability of the proposed costs.
    Applicants must address the following requirements in their 
application to be considered responsive to the Federal Register 
announcement. These requirements have been organized according to the 
evaluation criteria discussed in Part III.

A. Objectives and Needs for Assistance

    1. State the objectives for the priority project and indicate how 
these objectives relate to the public child welfare agency training 
issues to be addressed and demonstrate that there is a need for the 
project and is based on an assessment of the public agency training 
needs. Provide letters of support for the project from the State/local 
public agencies.
    2. Identify the public agency staff to be trained under the 
proposed project and describe the training needs of the target 
population. Provide an estimated number of public agency staff to be 
trained under the project.
    3. Identify the geographic location of the public agency staff to 
be served by the project.

B. Results and Benefits

    1. Identify the specific results or outcomes that can be expected 
as a result of the proposed training curriculum and training of the 
public agency staff in this project.
    2. Identify the kinds of qualitative and quantitative data the 
project staff will collect to measure progress and impacts from the 
project design and implementation. In discussing the evaluation 
approach, discuss the methods and procedures to be used to determine 
the extent to which the project achieved the stated objectives.
    3. Provide assurance that the program will provide interim progress 
and final reports, or any other report required by ACYF. These reports 
must discuss the process and the outcomes specific to the development 
of the training curriculum, training of the public agency staff, and 
evaluation of the project in terms of the objectives of the project.
    4. Describe how the project results will benefit the national 
technical assistance strategy for public agency staff training to 
achieve the child welfare program goals and outcomes.

C. Approach

Priority Area 1
    Applications submitted under this priority area are to include 
approaches and strategies for developing a competency-based 
interdisciplinary training curriculum and a training plan to enhance 
and strengthen the capacity of child welfare workers and supervisors to 
respond to complex family problems of child abuse and neglect resulting 
from substance abuse, mental illness, and domestic violence, which 
require effective interdisciplinary service coordination necessary to 
achieve child safety and permanency goals. Applicants must:
    1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of interdisciplinary 
training issues specific to the substance abuse, mental health, and 
domestic violence problems found in the child welfare population 
throughout the country. Discuss how the proposed project will build on 
the existing knowledge and evaluations of such projects and add 
innovative dimensions to achieve the interdisciplinary training goals.
    2. Describe past and/or current collaboration between the 
educational programs and the public (State/local and Tribal) agencies. 
Describe how this project will build on existing partnerships with such 
agencies.
    3. Discuss an approach to developing a theoretical and practice-
based curriculum that focuses on the substance abuse, mental health, 
and domestic violence issues as these relate to child abuse and 
neglect. Describe the need for such training for the public child 
welfare staff, specifically, and child welfare professionals in 
general. Also describe the contents of the proposed interdisciplinary 
training curriculum.
    4. Describe the proposed curriculum and discuss how it builds on, 
expands, and strengthens the existing curriculum approaches/models. The 
applicant must explain the preliminary planning and coordination 
activities with other disciplines in the development and execution of 
the training curriculum. Discuss the approach to teaching a competency-
based interdisciplinary curriculum and the use of other disciplines to 
teach in various components of the training curriculum to achieve the 
project objectives.
    5. Describe how the public child welfare agency staff, community 
agencies providing services to families with substance abuse and 
domestic violence problems will be involved in developing the 
curriculum.
    6. Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level of the 
child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the life of 
the project; criteria for selection and recruitment of the trainees; 
and specific strategies to be used to recruit minority and Tribal 
agency trainees. There should also be a

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consideration to include individuals from the community agencies that 
provide services to the child welfare population.
    7. Describe any interactive and long distance training, including 
video technology if any, that will be part of this effort.
    8. Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating the 
interdisciplinary training curriculum, including the timelines.
    9. Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each task 
to be accomplished. It must describe: the timeframes for the proposed 
interdisciplinary training curriculum development; coordination with 
the various disciplines in various tasks; training of the public agency 
staff; evaluation of the project; and submission of the interim 
progress and final reports and the final products.
    10. Describe the proposed plan for the evaluation of the project. 
Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based interdisciplinary 
curriculum will be assessed.
    11. Identify and describe the administrative and organizational 
interface required in this project (State agency, community agencies, 
academic departments, other disciplines, institutions, etc.). Also 
include interagency agreements and commitments obtained from the 
participating entities.
    12. Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
university and one from the public child welfare agency will jointly 
attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly after the 
award of the grant and participate in a four-day annual meeting in 
Washington, D.C.
For Priority Area 2
    Applications submitted under this priority area are to include 
approaches and strategies to support and promote management 
capabilities in the use of the child welfare program data to: (1) 
identify outcomes to be achieved, (2) create ownership of the data by 
the staff, (3) develop a strategy for the planned use of the data to 
track performance, and (4) identify training needs to build staff 
capacity to improve program outcomes. To achieve this objective, this 
priority will focus on developing a training curriculum to build 
managerial capacity for making effective use of the child welfare 
program data for the purposes of developing and instituting an outcome-
based management strategy that will focus on developing program 
outcomes, tracking performance at all agency levels; and removing 
barriers to achieving child welfare outcomes. Applicants must:
    1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theory and 
principles of outcome-based management practices in general and their 
current applications in public child welfare agencies throughout the 
country, including the linkages between program outcomes and effective 
practices. Discuss how the proposed training project will build on the 
existing knowledge and evaluations of these management practices. 
Discuss the innovative dimensions of the proposed training approach 
which focuses on capacity building to improve the child welfare program 
outcomes. Include discussion of the use of relevant fiscal and program 
data to: develop performance goals; develop effective management 
practices for achieving interim and final performance goals; and 
evaluate barriers to achieving the intended goals.
    2. Describe past and/or current collaboration between the applicant 
and the public (State/local and Tribal) agencies. Describe how this 
project will build on existing partnerships with such agencies.
    3. Discuss the proposed approach to developing a theoretical and 
practice-based curriculum that focuses on outcome-based management 
related to child welfare agencies. Describe the need for such training 
for public agencies' managers. Also describe the contents of the 
proposed outcome-based management training curriculum.
    4. Describe the proposed training curriculum and discuss how it 
builds on, expands, and strengthens the existing curricula to promote 
outcome-based management approaches/models. The applicant must explain 
the preliminary planning and coordination activities with the public 
child welfare agency in developing and executing the training 
curriculum. Also discuss the approach to teaching such a curriculum and 
the use of other disciplines, if any, to teach various components of 
the curriculum to achieve the project objectives.
    5. The proposed training curriculum should describe the use of new 
technologies, federal/State data systems, other relevant information 
sources and reports, monitoring systems etc. as components of the 
training curriculum.
    6. Describe how the public child welfare agency staff will be 
involved in curriculum development.
    7. Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level of the 
managerial tier are expected to be trained over the life of the 
project; the criteria for selection and recruitment of trainees; and 
specific strategies to recruit minority and Tribal agency trainees.
    8. Describe any interactive and long distance training, including 
video technology if any, that will be part of this effort.
    9. Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating the 
outcome-based management training curriculum, including the timelines.
    10. Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each task 
to be accomplished. It must describe: the timeframes for developing the 
training curriculum; coordination with the public child welfare agency; 
coordination and use of other disciplines in the curriculum development 
and training tasks; training of the public agency staff; evaluation of 
the project; and submission of the interim progress and final reports, 
and the final products.
    11. Describe the proposed plan for the evaluation of the project. 
Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based training 
curriculum will be assessed.
    12. Identify and describe the administrative and organizational 
interface required in this project (State agency, academic departments, 
other disciplines, institutions, etc.). Also include interagency 
agreements and commitments obtained from the participating entities.
    13. Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
applicant agency and one from the public child welfare agency will 
jointly attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly 
after the award of the grant and participate in a four-day annual 
grantee meeting in Washington, D.C.
Priority Area 3
    Applications submitted under this priority area are to include 
approaches and strategies for developing a competency-based cross-
program training curriculum and a training plan to enhance child 
welfare workers' ability and skills to conduct comprehensive 
assessments of family needs at the intake level. The objective of this 
priority is to build capacity of the workers to identify and assess all 
family conditions, including socio-economic factors, family strengths, 
and areas of stress which contribute to child abuse and neglect and 
require referrals and coordination with other human service programs. 
Applicants must:
    1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of cross-program 
training issues specific to TANF, child care, and child support 
programs that may be relevant to child welfare and used in

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other programs throughout the country. Discuss how the proposed project 
will build on the existing knowledge of such projects and add 
innovative dimensions to the cross-program training of child welfare 
workers.
    2. Describe past and/or current collaboration between the 
educational programs and the public (State/local and Tribal) agencies. 
Describe how this project will build on existing partnerships with such 
agencies.
    3. Discuss an approach to developing a practice-based curriculum 
that focuses on the importance of holistic intake skills relative to 
the child abuse and neglect population. Describe the need for such 
training for the public child welfare staff, specifically, and child 
welfare professionals in general.
    4. Describe the proposed curriculum and discuss how it builds on, 
expands, and strengthens the existing curriculum approaches/ models. 
The applicant must explain the preliminary planning and coordination 
activities with other programs in the development and execution of the 
training curriculum. Discuss the approach to teaching a cross-program 
and holistic intake approach and the use of other program staff to 
teach various components of the training curriculum.
    5. Describe how the public child welfare agency staff and the TANF, 
child care and child support program staff will be involved in the 
development of the curriculum.
    6. Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level of the 
child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the life of 
the project; criteria for selection and recruitment of trainees; and 
specific strategies to recruit minority and Tribal agency trainees. 
There should also be a consideration to include individuals from the 
aforementioned programs involved in providing services to the child 
welfare population.
    7. Describe any interactive and long distance training, including 
video technology if any, that will be part of this effort.
    8. Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating the 
cross-program training curriculum, including the timelines.
    9. Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each task 
to be accomplished to match the scope of the project. It must also 
describe the timeframes for the proposed cross-program training 
curriculum development, coordination with the various programs, 
conducting training of the public agency staff, evaluation of the 
project, and submission of the interim progress and final reports and 
the final products.
    10. Describe the proposed plan for the evaluation of the project. 
Discuss how the effectiveness of the competency-based cross-program 
curriculum directed to enhance intake skills will be assessed.
    11. Identify and describe the administrative and organizational 
interface required in this project (State agency, community agencies, 
academic departments, other disciplines, institutions, etc.). Also 
include interagency/inter-program agreements and commitments obtained 
from the participating entities.
    12. Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
university and one from the public child welfare agency would jointly 
attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly after the 
award of the grant as well as participate in a four-day annual meeting 
in Washington, D.C.
Priority Area 4
    Applications submitted under this priority area are to include 
approaches and strategies for developing a competency-based training 
curriculum and a training plan to facilitate the implementation of the 
new title IV-E State plan requirement to consider giving preference to 
adult relatives over non-relatives when determining a placement for a 
child. The objective of such a training is to provide knowledge and 
skills necessary for making decisions regarding the appropriateness of 
relative/kinship care placements in foster care and permanency 
planning. Applicants must:
    1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of title IV-E program 
requirements, State IV-E program practices relevant to relative/kinship 
care throughout the country, and the new provision of Pub. L. 104-193. 
Discuss how the proposed project will build on the existing knowledge 
of the statute and State practices, and how the applicant will address 
the new requirements regarding preferential treatment of relatives in 
situations where a child must be removed from the family home.
    2. Describe past and/or current collaboration between the 
applicant, educational programs and the public (State/local and Tribal) 
agencies. Describe how this project will build on existing partnerships 
with such agencies.
    3. Discuss the proposed approach to developing a practice-based 
curriculum that focuses on the implementation of the provision of Pub. 
L. 104-193. Describe the need for such training for the public child 
welfare staff in specific and child welfare professionals in general.
    4. Describe the contents of the proposed curriculum and discuss how 
it will build and expand on the current policies and procedures used to 
identify and license foster care families. The applicant must explain 
the preliminary planning and coordination activities with the State 
child welfare agency. Discuss the approach to teaching the curriculum 
contents and the use of various staff to teach the curriculum 
components to achieve the project objectives.
    5. Describe how the public child welfare agency staff will be 
involved in the development of the curriculum.
    6. Describe who the trainees will be; how many at each level of the 
child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the life of 
the project; criteria for selection and recruitment of trainees; and 
specific strategies to recruit minority and Tribal agency trainees.
    7. Describe any interactive and long distance training, including 
video technology, if any, that will be part of this effort.
    8. Describe coordination with the public agency in evaluating the 
training curriculum, including the timelines.
    9. Submit a work plan which describes the timelines for each task 
to be accomplished. It must describe: the timeframes for the proposed 
curriculum development; coordination with the public agency; training 
of the public agency staff; evaluation of the project; and submission 
of the interim progress and final reports and the final products.
    10. Describe the plan for the evaluation of the project. Discuss 
how the effectiveness of the competency-based curriculum under this 
priority will be assessed.
    11. Identify and describe the administrative and organizational 
interface required in this project (State agency, community agencies, 
academic departments, other disciplines, institutions, etc.). Also 
include interagency/inter-program agreements and commitments obtained 
from the participating entities.
    12. Provide assurance that at least one key staff from the 
university and one from the public child welfare agency will jointly 
attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly after the 
award of the grant and participate in a four-day annual meeting in 
Washington, D.C.

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D. Staff Background and Organizational Experience

    1. Describe the applicant's experience in developing and providing 
training in child welfare. Also describe the applicant's history and 
relationship with the targeted public child welfare agency. Include a 
discussion of the relevant programs, administrative and fiscal 
management experience.
    2. Identify and provide a brief description of key staff who are 
proposed to work in this project, indicating their education, 
experience in working in similar programs and training/teaching 
experiences that are relevant to achieving the project goals. Include 
their resumes.
    3. Describe the qualifications and experience of the individuals 
who will assist in the development of the curriculum, participate in 
the training of the public agency staff and conduct evaluation of the 
project. Include their resumes.

E. Budget Appropriateness

    1. Provide a detailed line-item budget. In the proposed budget, 
applicants must include sufficient funds for at least one key staff 
from the university and one from the public child welfare agency to 
jointly attend a one-day meeting in the HHS Regional office shortly 
after the award of the grant as well as participate in a four-day 
annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
    2. Describe how the budget reflects the implementation of a high 
quality, ongoing work to be performed under the project at a reasonable 
cost. Include a discussion regarding the appropriateness of staff 
compensation levels. Also explain the efforts the applicant has made to 
secure funds from various sources for matching the applicant's share of 
the project costs.

Part IV. Evaluation Criteria

    In considering how applicants will carry out the responsibilities 
addressed under Part III of this announcement, competing applications 
will be reviewed and evaluated against the following four criteria. The 
point values following each criterion indicate the maximum numerical 
weight each criterion will be accorded in the review process.

A. Criterion 1: Objectives and Need for Assistance (20 Points)

    The extent to which the applicant:
     Discusses the project objectives and indicates how these 
objectives relate to the public child welfare agency training issues;
     Addresses the project goals of curriculum development and 
training of the public child welfare agency staff;
     Proposes objectives and the need for assistance to: (1) 
support existing training and curriculum building efforts; and (2) 
address the need for training of the public agency staff to achieve 
child welfare program goals of child protection, safety, and permanency 
planning and placement;
     Draws on the existing knowledge, experience, research, and 
extant data, if available, in support of the project objectives;
     Describes the training needs of the target population. 
Provides an estimated number of public agency staff to be trained under 
the project. Identifies the geographic location of the public agency 
staff to be served by the project; and
     Proposes strategies to address the training needs of the 
target population.

B. Criterion 2: Results or Benefits Expected (10 Points)

    The extent to which the applicant:
     Identifies the specific results and benefits to be derived 
from the project and links these to the stated objectives;
     Discusses the outcomes that can be expected as a result of 
the proposed training curriculum and training of the public agency 
staff in this project;
     Describes the types of data to be collected and how it 
will be utilized to measure progress towards the stated results or 
benefits;
     Discusses how the lessons learned from the project will 
benefit approaches to training public agency staff, and improve 
management and operations practices to accomplish child welfare program 
performance standards; and
     Describes how the project results will benefit a national 
technical assistance strategy for training public agency staff in 
efforts to achieve the child welfare program goals and outcomes.
    Information provided in response to Part II of this announcement 
will be used to evaluate applicants on this criterion.

C. Criterion 3: Approach (40 Points)

    The extent to which the applicant:
     Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the training 
issues and strategies to support and enhance the public child welfare 
agency staff capabilities to achieve child welfare outcomes;
     Discusses an approach to developing a theoretical and 
practice-based curriculum that addresses the training needs of the 
public agency staff;
     Describes the proposed curriculum and discusses how it 
builds on, expands, and strengthens the existing curriculum approaches/
models. The applicant explains the preliminary planning and 
coordination activities with other disciplines in developing and 
executing the training curriculum. Discusses the approach to teaching a 
competency-based curriculum and training to achieve the project 
objectives;
     Describes past and/or current collaboration between the 
applicant and educational programs and the public (State/local and 
Tribal) agencies. Discusses how this project will build on existing 
partnerships with such agencies;
     Outlines a sound and workable plan of action relevant to 
the stated objectives and the scope of the project, and details how the 
proposed work will be accomplished;
     Addresses the training outcomes for the public agency 
staff and identifies factors which might facilitate or impede the work, 
giving acceptable reasons for taking the proposed approach;
     Lists the proposed activities in a chronological order, 
showing a reasonable schedule of accomplishments and target dates;
     Identifies and describes the administrative and 
organizational interface required in the project (State agency, 
community agencies, academic departments, other disciplines, 
institutions, etc.). Also includes interagency agreements and 
commitments obtained from the participating entities;
     Describes who the trainees will be; how many at each level 
of the child welfare services tier are expected to be trained over the 
life of the project; the criteria for selection and recruitment of 
trainees; and specific strategies for recruiting minority and Tribal 
agency trainees;
     Identifies the type of data to be collected and maintained 
and discusses the criteria to be used to evaluate the results and 
success of the project; and
     Describes the evaluation methodology to be used to 
determine whether the project objectives have been met and the general 
impact on curriculum development, staff training and effectiveness of 
program services. Discusses how the effectiveness of the competency-
based curriculum will be assessed.
    Information provided in Part II of this announcement will also be 
used to evaluate applicants on this criterion.

D. Criterion 4: Staff Background and Organizational Experience (20 
Points)

    The extent to which the applicant:

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     Demonstrates that the proposed project director and key 
project staff have the ability, experience and background to 
effectively and efficiently administer a project of this size and scope 
and complexity, including the development of training curriculum and 
training of public agency child welfare agency staff;
     Describes the relationship between the proposed project 
and other work planned, anticipated or underway by the applicant with 
Federal assistance;
     Details the organization's experience in addressing the 
training needs in the public agencies; and
     Describes the adequacy of the applicant's management plan 
in achieving the project goals.
    Information provided in response to Part II of this announcement 
will be used to evaluate applicants on this criterion.

E. Criterion 5: Budget Appropriateness (10 Points)

    The extent to which the applicant justifies the following:
     Costs are reasonable in view of the activities to be 
conducted and expected results and benefits;
     Salaries and fringe benefits reflect the level of 
compensation appropriate for the proposed staff responsibilities; and
     The non-Federal contribution of the project costs.

Part V. Instructions for the Development and Submission of Application 
for FY 1997

    This part contains information and instructions for submitting 
applications in response to this announcement. Application forms are 
provided along with a checklist for assembling an application package. 
Please copy and use these forms in submitting an application.
    Potential applicants should read this section carefully in 
conjunction with the information contained within the specific priority 
areas under which the application is to be submitted. The priority area 
descriptions are in Part II and the application requirements are in 
Part III.

A. Availability of Forms

    Eligible applicants interested in applying for funds must submit 
all the required forms included at the end of this announcement in 
Appendix A--ACF Uniform Discretionary Grant Application Form (ACF/
UDGAF). This material is also included in the application kit provided 
by contacting the ACF Operations Center at 1-800-351-2293 (phone) or 1-
800-351-4490 (fax). Applicants are required to use the Standard Forms, 
Certifications, Disclosures and Assurances provided under Appendix A--
ACF Uniform Discretionary Grant Application Form (ACF/UDGAF). Under the 
ACF/UDGAF, applications submitted for funds under this announcement are 
considered NEW APPLICATIONS. Applicants should follow instructions in 
the ACF/UDGAF for NEW APPLICATIONS.
    In order to be considered for a grant under this announcement, an 
application must be submitted on the Standard Form 424 which has been 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under Control 
Number 0970-0139. A copy has been provided (see Appendix A). Each 
application must be signed by an individual authorized to act for the 
applicant and to assume responsibility for the obligations imposed by 
the terms and conditions of the grant award.
    A copy of the governing body's authorization for this person to 
sign this application as official representative must be on file in the 
applicant's office.
    Applicants requesting financial assistance for non-construction 
projects must file the Standard Form 424B, ``Assurances: Non-
Constructions Programs'' (approved by OMB under Control Number 0348-
0040). Applicants must sign and return the Standard Form 424B with the 
application. Applicants must provide certification regarding lobbying 
(approved by OMB under Control Number 0348-0046). Prior to receiving an 
award in excess of $100,000, applicants shall furnish an executed copy 
of the lobbying certification. Applicants must sign and return the 
certification with their application.
    Applicants must make the appropriate certification of their 
compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. By signing and 
submitting the application, applicants are providing the certification 
and need not mail back the certification with the application.
    Applicants must also understand that they will be held accountable 
for the smoking prohibition included within P.L. 103-227, Part C 
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (also known as the Pro-Children's Act of 
1994). A copy of the Federal Register notice which implements the 
smoking prohibition is included with the forms. By signing and 
submitting the application, applicants are providing the certification 
and need not mail back the certification with the application.

B. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

    Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-13), the 
Department is required to submit to the Office of Management and Budget 
for review and approval any reporting or program announcements. All 
information collections within this program announcement are approved 
under the Uniform Discretionary Grant Application Form under OMB 
Control Number 0970-0139 (expiration date August 31, 1997). The 
estimated burden per response is 20 hours. An agency may not conduct or 
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

C. Required Notification of the State Single Point of Contact

    This program is covered under Executive Order 12372, 
``Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs,'' and 45 CFR Part 100, 
``Intergovernmental Review of Department of Health and Human Services 
Programs and Activities.'' Under the Order, States may design their own 
processes for reviewing and commenting on proposed Federal assistance 
under covered programs.
    All States and territories except Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, 
Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, 
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, 
Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, 
American Samoa, and Palau have elected to participate in the Executive 
Order process and have established Single Points of Contact (SPOCs). 
Applicant's from these twenty-three jurisdictions areas need not take 
action regarding Executive Order 12372.
    Applications for projects to be administered by Federally-
recognized Indian Tribes are also exempt from the requirements of 
Executive Order 12372. Otherwise, applicants should contact their SPOC 
as soon as possible to alert them to the prospective application and to 
receive any necessary instructions. Applicants must submit any required 
material to the SPOC as early as possible so that the program office 
can obtain and review SPOC comments as part of the award process. It is 
imperative that the applicant submit all required materials, if any, to 
the SPOC and indicate the date of this submittal (or date of contact if 
no submittal is required) on the Standard Form 424, item 16a.
    Under 45 CFR 100.8(a)(2), an SPOC has 45 days from the application 
deadline to comment on proposed new or competing continuation awards. 
SPOCs are encouraged to eliminate the

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submission of routine endorsements as official recommendations.
    Additionally, SPOCs are requested to clearly differentiate between 
mere advisory comments and those official State process recommendations 
which may trigger the ``accommodate or explain'' rule.
    When comments are submitted directly to the ACF, they should be 
addressed to: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration 
for Children and Families, Division of Discretionary Grants, 370 
L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., Mail Stop 6C-462, Washington, D.C. 20447.
    A list of Single Points of Contact for each State and territory is 
included as Appendix B of this announcement.

D. Deadline for Submission of Applications

    The closing time and date for the receipt of applications under 
this announcement is 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone), on August 22, 1997. 
Applications received after 4:30 p.m. of the closing date will be 
classified as late. Post marks and other similar documents DO NOT 
establish receipt of an application.
    Deadline: Mailed applications shall be considered as meeting an 
announced deadline if they are received on or before the deadline time 
and date at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
Administration for Children and Families, Division of Discretionary 
Grants, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., Mail Stop 6C-462, Washington, 
D.C. 20447. Attention: Children's Bureau Discretionary Training Funds 
Program (Specify Priority Area 1, 2, 3, or 4). Any application received 
after 4:30 p.m. on the deadline date will not be considered for 
competition. Applicants using express/overnight services should allow 
for two working days prior to the deadline date for receipt of 
applications.
    Applications hand-carried by applicants, applicant courier, or by 
overnight/express mail couriers shall be considered as meeting an 
announced deadline if they are received on or before the deadline 
receipt date, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (EST), at 
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for 
Children and Families, Division of Discretionary Grants, ACF Mailroom, 
2nd Floor Loading Dock, Aerospace Center, 901 D Street, S.W., 
Washington, DC 20024, between Monday and Friday (excluding Federal 
holidays). Attention: Children's Bureau Discretionary Training Funds 
Program (Specify Priority Area 1, 2, 3, or 4). Any application received 
after 4:30 p.m. on the deadline date will not be considered for 
competition. Applicants using express/overnight services should allow 
for two working days prior to the deadline date for receipt of 
applications.
    ACF cannot accommodate transmission of applications by fax or 
through other electronic media. Therefore, applications transmitted to 
ACF electronically will not be accepted regardless of date or time of 
submission and time of receipt. Envelopes containing applications must 
clearly indicate the specific priority area that the application is 
addressing.
    Late applications: Applications which do not meet the above 
criteria are considered late applications. ACF shall notify each late 
applicant that its application will not be considered in the current 
competition.
    Extension of Deadlines: ACF may extend the deadline for all 
applicants because of acts of God such as floods, hurricanes, etc., or 
when there is a widespread disruption of the mails. However, if ACF 
does not extend the deadline for all applicants, it may not waive or 
extend the deadline for any applicant.

E. Instructions for Preparing the Application and Completing 
Application Forms

    The SF 424, 424A, 424B and certifications have been reprinted for 
your convenience in preparing the application. See Appendix A. You 
should reproduce single-sided copies of these forms from the reprinted 
forms in the announcement, typing your information onto the copies. 
Please do not use forms directly from the Federal Register 
announcement, as they are printed on both sides of the page.
    Please prepare your application in accordance with the following 
instructions:
    1. SF 424 Page 1, Application Cover Sheet. Please read the 
following instructions before completing the application cover sheet. 
An explanation of each item is included. Complete only the items 
specified.
    Top of Page. Enter the single priority area number under which the 
application is being submitted under only one priority area.
    Item 1. Type of submission--Preprinted on the form.
    Item 2. Date Submitted and Applicant Identifier--Date application 
is submitted to ACYF and applicant's own internal control number, if 
applicable.
    Item 3. Date Received By State--State use only (if applicable).
    Item 4. Date Received by Federal Agency--Leave blank.
    Item 5. Applicant Information Legal Name--Enter the legal name of 
the applicant organization. For applications developed jointly, enter 
the name of the lead organization only. There must be a single 
applicant for each application.
    Organizational Unit--Enter the name of the primary unit within the 
applicant organization which will actually carry out the project 
activity. Do not use the name of an individual as the applicant. If 
this is the same as the applicant organization, leave the 
organizational unit blank.
    Address--Enter the complete address that the organization actually 
uses to receive mail, since this is the address to which all 
correspondence will be sent. Do not include both street address and 
P.O. box number unless both must be used in mailing.
    Name and telephone number of the person to be contacted on matters 
involving this application (give area code)--Enter the full name 
(including academic degree, if applicable) and telephone number of a 
person who can respond to questions about the application. This person 
should be accessible at the address given here and will receive all 
correspondence regarding the application.
    Item 6. Employer Identification Number (EIN)--Enter the employer 
identification number of the applicant organization, as assigned only 
by the DHHS Central Registry System. EIN prefixes and suffixes assigned 
by agencies other than DHHS are not valid at DHHS/ACF.
    Item 7. Type of Applicant--Self-explanatory.
    Item 8. Type of Application--Preprinted on the form.
    Item 9. Name of Federal Agency--Preprinted on the form.
    Item 10. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number and Title--
Enter the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number assigned 
to the program under which assistance is requested and its title, as 
indicated in the relevant priority area description. The CFDA number of 
for the Child Welfare Training Grants is 93.648.
    Item 11. Descriptive Title of Applicant's Project--Enter the 
project title and the priority area number in parenthesis after the 
project title. The title is generally short and is descriptive of the 
project.
    Item 12. Areas Affected by Project--Enter the governmental unit 
where significant and meaningful impact could be observed. List only 
the largest unit or units affected, such as State, county, or city. If 
an entire unit is affected, list it rather than subunits.

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    Item 13. Proposed Project--Enter the desired start date for the 
project and projected completion date.
    Item 14. Congressional District of Applicant/Project--Enter the 
number of the Congressional District where the applicant's principal 
office is located and the number of the Congressional district (s) 
where the project will be located. If statewide, a multi-State effort, 
or nationwide, enter 00.
    Items 15. Estimated Funding Levels In completing 15a through 15f, 
the dollar amounts entered should reflect, for a 12 month budget 
period, the total amount requested. if the proposed project period 
exceeds 17 months, enter only those dollar amounts needed for the first 
12 months of the proposed project.
    Item 15a. Enter the amount of Federal funds requested in accordance 
with the preceding paragraph. This amount should be no greater than the 
maximum amount specified in the priority area description.
    Item 15b-e. Enter the amount(s) of funds from non-Federal sources 
that will be contributed to the proposed project. Items b-e are 
considered cost-sharing or matching funds. The value of third party in-
kind contributions should be included on appropriate lines as 
applicable.
    Items 15f. Enter the estimated amount of income, if any, expected 
to be generated from the proposed project. Do not add or subtract this 
amount from the total project amount entered under item 15g. Describe 
the nature, source and anticipated use of this income in the Project 
Narrative Statement.
    Item 15g. Enter the sum of items 15a-15e.
    Item 16a. Is Application Subject to Review By State Executive Order 
12372 Process? Enter Yes and the date the applicant contacted the SPOC 
regarding this application. Select the appropriate SPOC from the 
listing provided in Appendix B. The review of the application is at the 
discretion of the SPOC. The SPOC will verify the date noted on the 
application.
    Item 16b. Is Application Subject to Review By State Executive Order 
12372 process? No.--Check the appropriate box if the application is not 
covered by E.O. 12372 or if the program has not been selected by the 
State for review.
    Item 17. Is the Applicant Delinquent on any Federal Debt?--Check 
the appropriate box. This question applies to the applicant 
organization, not the person who signs as the authorized 
representative. Categories of debt include audit disallowances, loans 
and taxes.
    Item 18. To the best of my knowledge and belief, all data in this 
application/preapplication are true and correct. The document has been 
duly authorized by the governing body of the applicant and the 
applicant will comply with the attached assurances if the assistance is 
awarded.--To be signed by the authorized representative of the 
applicant. A copy of the governing body's authorization for signature 
of this application by this individual as the official representative 
must be on file in the applicant's office, and may be requested from 
the applicant.
    Item 18 a-c. Typed Name of Authorized Representative, Title, 
Telephone Number--Enter the name, title and telephone number of the 
authorized representative of the applicant organization. This 
individual will receive all ACF/ACYF correspondence regarding the 
application.
    Item 18d. Signature of Authorized Representative--Signature of the 
authorized representative named in Item 18a. At least one copy of the 
application must have an original signature. Use colored ink (not 
black) so that the original signature is easily identified.
    Item 18e. Date Signed--Enter the date the application was signed by 
the authorized representative.
    2. SF 424A--Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs. This is 
a form used by many Federal agencies. For this application, Sections A, 
B, C, E and F are to be completed. Section D does not need to be 
completed.
    Sections A and B should include the Federal as well as the non-
Federal funding for the proposed project covering the first year budget 
period.
    Section A--Budget Summary. This section includes a summary of the 
budget. On line 5, enter total Federal costs in column (e) and total 
non-Federal costs, including third party in-kind contributions, but not 
program income, in column (f). Enter the total of (e) and (f) in column 
(g).
    Section B--Budget Categories. This budget, which includes the 
Federal as well as non-Federal funding for the proposed project, covers 
the first year budget period if the proposed project period exceeds 12 
months. It should relate to item 15g, total funding, on the SF 424. 
Under column (5), enter the total requirements for funds (Federal and 
non-Federal) by object class category.
    A separate itemized budget justification for each line item is 
required. The types of information to be included in the justification 
are indicated under each category. For multiple year projects, it is 
desirable to provide this information for each year of the project. The 
budget justification should immediately follow the second page of the 
SF 424A.
    Personnel--Line 6a. Enter the total costs of salaries and wages of 
applicant/grantee staff. Do not include the costs of consultants, which 
should be included on line 6h, Other.
    Justification: Identify the principal investigator or project 
director, if known. Specify by title or name the percentage of time 
allocated to the project, the individual annual salaries, and the cost 
to the project (both Federal and non-Federal) of the organization's 
staff who will be working on the project.
    Fringe Benefits--Line 6b. Enter the total cost of fringe benefits, 
unless treated as part of an approved indirect cost rate.
    Justification: Provide a break-down of amounts and percentages that 
comprise fringe benefit costs, such as health insurance, FICA, 
retirement insurance, etc.
    Travel--6c. Enter total costs of out-of-town travel (travel 
requiring per diem) for staff of the project. Do not enter costs for 
consultant's travel or local transportation, which should be included 
on Line 6h, Other.
    Justification: Include the name(s) of traveler(s), total number of 
trips, destinations, length of stay, transportation costs and 
subsistence allowances.
    Equipment--Line 6d. Enter the total costs of all equipment to be 
acquired by the project. Equipment is defined as an article of 
nonexpendable, tangible personal property having a useful life of more 
than one year and an acquisition cost which equals or exceeds the 
lesser of (a) the capitalization level established by the organization 
for the financial statement purposes or (b) $5,000 or more per unit.
    Justification: Equipment to be purchased with Federal funds must be 
justified. The equipment must be required to conduct the project, and 
the applicant organization or its subgrantees must not have the 
equipment or a reasonable facsimile available to the project. The 
justification also must contain plans for future use or disposal of the 
equipment after the project ends.
    Supplies--Line 6e. Enter the total costs of all tangible expendable 
personal property (supplies) other than those included on Line 6d.
    Justification: Specify general categories of supplies and their 
costs.
    Contractual--Line 6f. Enter the total costs of all contracts, 
including (1) Procurement contracts (except those which belong on other 
lines such as equipment, supplies, etc.) and (2) contracts with 
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agencies. Also include any contracts with organizations for the 
provision of technical assistance. Do not include payments to 
individuals on this line. If the name of the contractor, scope of work, 
and estimated total costs are not available or have not been 
negotiated, include on Line 6h, other.
    Justification: Attach a list of contractors, indicating the names 
of the organizations, the purposes of the contracts, and the estimated 
dollar amounts of the awards as part of the budget justification. 
Whenever the applicant/grantee intends to delegate part or all of the 
program to another agency, the applicant/grantee must complete this 
section (Section B, Budget Categories) for each delegate agency by 
agency title, along with the supporting information. The total cost of 
all such agencies will be part of the amount shown on Line 6f. Provide 
backup documentation identifying the name of contractor, purpose of 
contract, and major cost elements. Applicants who anticipate 
procurement that will exceed $5,000 (non-governmental entities) or 
$25,000 (governmental entities) and are requesting an award without 
competition should include a sole source justification in the proposal 
which at a minimum should include the basis for contractor's selection, 
justification for lack of competition when competitive bids or offers 
are not obtained and basis for award cost or price. (Note: Previous or 
past experience with a contractor is not sufficient justification for 
sole source.)
    Construction--Line 6g. Not applicable. New construction is not 
allowable.
    Other--Line 6h. Enter the total of all other costs. Where 
applicable, such costs may include, but are not limited to: insurance; 
medical and dental costs; noncontractual fees and travel paid directly 
to individual consultants; local transportation (all travel which does 
not require per diem is considered local travel); space and equipment 
rentals; printing and publication; computer use; training costs, 
including tuition and stipends; training service costs, including wage 
payments to individuals and supportive service payments; and staff 
development costs. Note that costs identified as miscellaneous and 
honoraria are not allowable.
    Justification: Specify the costs included.
    Total Direct Charge--Line 6i. Enter the total of Lines 6a through 
6h.
    Indirect Charges--6j. Enter the total amount of indirect charges 
(costs). If no indirect costs are requested, enter none. Generally, 
this line should be used when the applicant has a current indirect cost 
rate agreement approved by the Department of Health and Human Services 
or another Federal agency.
    Because this application is for a training grant, budgeted indirect 
cost is limited to 8%. However, before the applicant may budget for 
this percent or for some lesser percent, the applicant must include a 
copy of its latest negotiated indirect cost agreement in the 
application package. The applicant must also budget its indirect cost 
consistent with the negotiated indirect cost rate, base and other terms 
and conditions of the negotiated indirect cost agreement in accordance 
with longstanding Department policy.
    Local and State governments should enter the amount of indirect 
costs determined in accordance with DHHS requirements. When an indirect 
cost rate is requested, these costs are included in the indirect cost 
pool and should not be charged again as direct costs to the grant.
    Justification: Enclose a copy of the indirect cost rate agreement.
    Total--Line 6k. Enter the total amounts of lines 6i and 6j.
    Program Income--Line 7. Enter the estimated amount, if any, 
expected to be generated from this project. Do not add or subtract this 
amount from the total project amount.
    Justification: Describe the nature, source, and anticipated use of 
program income in the Program Narrative Statement.
    Section C--Non-Federal Resources. This section summarizes the 
amounts of non-Federal resources that will be applied to the grant. 
Enter this information on line 12 entitled Totals. In-kind 
contributions are defined in 45 CFR, Part 74.51 and 45 CFR Part 92.3, 
as property or services which benefit a grant-supported project or 
program and which are contributed by non-Federal third parties without 
charge to the grantee, the subgrantee, or a cost-type contractor under 
the grant or subgrant.
    Justification: Describe third party in-kind contributions, if 
included.
    Section D--Forecasted Cash Needs, Not applicable.
    Section E--Budget Estimate of Federal Funds Needed For Balance of 
the Project. This section should only be completed if the total project 
period exceeds 12 months.
    Totals--Line 20. For projects that will have more than one budget 
period, enter the estimated required Federal funds for the second 
budget period (months 13 through 24) under column (b) First. If a third 
budget period will be necessary, enter the Federal funds needed for 
months 25 through 36 under (c) Second. Column (d) would be used in the 
case of a 48 month project. Column (e) would not apply.
    Section F--Other Budget Information.
    Direct Charges--Line 21, Not applicable.
    Indirect Charges--Line 22, Enter the type of indirect rate 
(provisional, predetermined, final or fixed) that will be in effect 
during the funding period, the estimated amount of the base to which 
the rate is applied, and the total indirect expense.
    Remarks--Line 23. If the total project period exceeds 12 months, 
you must enter your proposed non-Federal share of the project budget 
for each of the remaining years of the project.
    3. Project Summary Description. Clearly mark this separate page 
with the applicant name as shown in item 5 of the SF 424, the priority 
area number as shown at the top of the SF 424, and the title of the 
project as shown in item 11 of the SF 424. The summary description 
should not exceed 300 words. These 300 words become part of the 
computer database on each project.
    Care should be taken to produce a summary description which 
accurately and concisely reflects the application. It should describe 
the objectives of the project, the approaches to be used and the 
outcomes expected. The description should also include a list of major 
products that will result from the proposed project, such as software 
packages, materials, management procedures, data collection 
instruments, training packages, or videos (please note that 
audiovisuals should be closed captioned). The project summary 
description, together with the information on the SF 424, will 
constitute the project abstract. It is the major source of information 
about the proposed project and is usually the first part of the 
application that the reviewers read in evaluating the application.
    At the bottom of the page, following the summary description, type 
up to 10 key words which best describe the proposed project, the 
service(s) involved and the target population(s) to be covered. These 
key words will be used for computerized information retrieval for 
specific types of funded projects.
    4. Program Narrative Statement. The Program Narrative Statement is 
a very important part of an application. It should be clear, concise, 
and address the specific requirements mentioned under the priority area 
description in Part II.
    The narrative should provide information concerning how the 
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    (a) Objectives and Need for Assistance;
    (b) Results and Benefits Expected;
    (c) Approach;
    (d) Staff Background and Organization's Experience; and
    (e) Budget Appropriateness.
    The narrative should be typed double-spaced on a single-side of an 
8 \1/2\'' x 11'' plain white paper, with 1'' margins on all sides using 
standard type size or fonts (e.g., Times Roman 12 or Courier 10). Type 
should be no smaller than 10 points). Applicants should not submit 
reproductions of larger paper, reduced to meet the size requirement. 
All pages of the narrative (including charts, references/footnotes, 
tables, maps, exhibits, etc.) must be sequentially numbered, beginning 
with Objectives and Need for Assistance as page number one.
    The length of the application, including the application forms and 
all attachments, should meet criteria set forth in each Priority Area. 
A page is a single side of an 8 \1/2\'' x 11'' sheet of paper. 
Applicants are requested not to send pamphlets, brochures or other 
printed material along with their application as these pose xeroxing 
difficulties. These materials, if submitted, will not be included in 
the review process if they exceed the page limit criteria. If the 
applicant chooses to submit printed materials, the applicant must 
provide a duplicate or a copy of each printed document with each copy 
of the application submitted. Each page of the application will be 
counted to determine the total length.
    5. Organizational Capability Statement. The Organizational 
Capability Statement should consist of a brief (two to three pages) 
background description of how the applicant organization (or the unit 
within the organization that will have responsibility for the project) 
is organized, the types and quantity of services it provides, and/or 
the research and management capabilities it possesses. This description 
should cover capabilities not included in the Program Narrative 
Statement. It may include descriptions of any current or previous 
relevant experience, or describe the competence of the project team and 
its demonstrated ability to produce a final product that is readily 
comprehensible and usable. An organization chart showing the 
relationship of the project to the current organization should be 
included.
    6. Assurances/Certifications. Applicants are required to file an SF 
424B, Assurances--Non-Construction Programs and the Certification 
Regarding Lobbying. Both must be signed and returned with the 
application. In addition, applicants must certify their compliance 
with: (1) Drug-Free Workplace Requirements, (2) Debarment and Other 
Responsibilities; and (3) Pro-Children Act of 1994 (Certification 
Regarding Environmental Tobacco Smoke). Copies of the assurances/
certifications are reprinted at the end of this announcement in (See 
Appendix A) and should be reproduced, as necessary. A duly authorized 
representative of the applicant organization must certify that the 
applicant is in compliance with these assurances/certifications. A 
signature on the SF 424 indicates compliance with the Drug Free 
Workplace Requirements, and Debarment and Other Responsibilities and 
Environmental Tobacco Smoke certifications.
    A signature on the application constitutes an assurance that the 
applicant will comply with the pertinent Departmental regulations 
contained in 45 CFR Part 74 and 45 CFR part 92 Applicants requesting 
financial assistance for non-construction project must file the 
standard SF-424B, ``Assurances--Non-Construction Programs.'' Applicants 
must sign and return the Standard Form 424B with their applications.

F. Checklist for a Complete Application

    The checklist below is for your use to ensure that your application 
package has been properly prepared.

--One original, signed and dated application, plus two copies. (Please 
note that applicants have the option to omit from the copies for non-
Federal reviewers specific salary rates for individuals identified in 
the application.) Applications for different priority areas are 
packaged separately;
--Application is from an organization which is eligible under the 
eligibility requirements defined in the priority area description 
(screening requirement);
--Application length does not exceed 60 pages, unless otherwise 
specified in the priority area description. A complete application 
consists of the following items in this order:

     Application for Federal Assistance (SF 424, REV 4-92);
     A completed SPOC certification with the date of SPOC 
contact entered in line 16, page 1 of the SF 424;
     Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs (SF 424A, 
REV 4-92);
     Budget justification for Section B--Budget Categories;
     Table of Contents;
     Letter from the Internal Revenue Service to prove non-
profit status, if necessary;
     Copy of the applicant's approved indirect cost rate 
agreement;
     Project summary description and listing of key words;
     Program Narrative Statement (See Part III, Section C);
     Organizational capability statement, including an 
organization chart;
     Any appendices/attachments;
     Assurances-Non-Construction Programs (Standard Form 424B, 
REV 4-92); and
     Certification Regarding Lobbying.

G. The Application Package

    Each application package must include an original and two
    copies of the complete application. Each copy should be secured 
with a binder clip in the upper left-hand corner. All pages of the 
narrative (including charts, tables etc.) must be sequentially 
numbered, beginning with page one. The narrative, including the 
appendices, must be only 60 pages. Any pages over that number will be 
removed and will not be reviewed. In order to facilitate handling, 
please do not use covers, binders or tabs. Do not include extraneous 
materials as attachments, such as agency promotion brochures, slides, 
tapes, film clips, minutes of meetings, survey instruments or articles. 
Applicants are advised that the copies of the application submitted, 
not the original, will be reproduced by the Federal government for 
review.
    Do not include a self-addressed, stamped acknowledgement card. All 
applicants will be notified automatically about the receipt of their 
application. If acknowledgement of receipt of your application is not 
received within eight weeks after the deadlines date, please notify the 
ACYF Operations Center by telephone at 1-800-351-2293.

    Dated: June 30, 1997.
James A. Harrell,
Acting Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.

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Instructions for the SF 424

    Public reporting burden for this collection of information is 
estimated to average 45 minutes per response, including time for 
reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering 
and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the 
collection of information. Send comments regarding the burden 
estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, 
including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0348-0043), 
Washington, DC 20503.
    Please do not return your completed form to the Office of 
Management and Budget; send it to the address provided by the 
sponsoring agency.
    This is a standard form used by applicants as a required 
facesheet for preapplications and applications submitted for Federal 
assistance. It will be used by Federal agencies to obtain applicant 
certification that States which have established a review and 
comment procedure in response to Executive Order 12372 and have 
selected the program to be included in their process, have been 
given an opportunity to review the applicant's submission.

Item and Entry

    1. Self-explanatory.
    2. Date application submitted to Federal agency (or State, if 
applicable) & applicant's control number (if applicable).
    3. State use only (if applicable).
    4. If this application is to continue or revise an existing 
award, enter present Federal identifier number. If for a new 
project, leave blank.
    5. Legal name of applicant, name of primary organizational unit 
which will undertake the assistance activity, complete address of 
the applicant, and name and telephone number of the person to 
contact on matters related to this application.
    6. Enter Employer Identification Number (EIN) as assigned by the 
Internal Revenue Service.
    7. Enter the appropriate letter in the space provided.
    8. Check appropriate box and enter appropriate letter(s) in the 
space(s) provided:

--``New'' means a new assistance award.
--``Continuation'' means an extension for an additional funding/
budget period for a project with a projected completion date.
--``Revision'' means any change in the Federal Government's 
financial obligation or contingent liability from an existing 
obligation.

    9. Name of Federal agency from which assistance is being 
requested with this application.
    10. Use the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number and 
title of the program under which assistance is requested.
    11. Enter a brief descriptive title of the project. If more than 
one program is involved, you should append an explanation on a 
separate sheet. If appropriate (e.g., construction or real property 
projects), attach a map showing project location. For 
preapplications, use a separate sheet to provide a summary 
description of this project.
    12. List only the largest political entities affected (e.g., 
State, counties, cities).
    13. Self-explanatory.
    14. List the applicant's Congressional District and any 
District(s) affected by the program or project.
    15. Amount requested or to be contributed during the first 
funding/budget period by each contributor. Value of in-kind 
contributions should be included on appropriate lines as applicable. 
If the action will result in a dollar change to an existing award, 
indicate only the amount of the change. For decreases, enclose the 
amounts in parentheses. If both basic and supplemental amounts are 
included, show breakdown on an attached sheet. For multiple program 
funding, use totals and show breakdown suing same categories as item 
15.
    16. Applicants should contact the State Single Point of Contact 
(SPOC) for Federal Executive Order 12372 to determine whether the 
application is subject to the State intergovernmental review 
process.
    17. This question applies to the applicant organization, not the 
person who signs as the authorized representative. Categories of 
debt include delinquent audit allowances, loans and taxes.
    18. To be signed by the authorized representative of the 
applicant. A copy of the governing body's authorization for you to 
sign this application as official representative must be on file in 
the applicant's office. (Certain Federal agencies may require that 
this authorization be submitted as part of the application.)

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Instructions for the SF 424A

    Public reporting burden for this collection of information is 
estimated to average 180 minutes per response, including time for 
reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering 
and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the 
collection of information. Send comments regarding the burden 
estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, 
including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0348-0043), 
Washington, DC 20503.
    Please do not return your completed form to the Office of 
Management and Budget, send it to the address provided by the 
sponsoring agency.

General Instructions

    This form is designed so that application can be made for funds 
from one or more grant programs. In preparing the budget, adhere to 
any existing Federal grantor agency guidelines which prescribe how 
and whether budgeted amounts should be separately shown for 
different functions or activities within the program. For some 
programs, grantor agencies may require budgets to be separately 
shown by function or activity. For other programs, grantor agencies 
may require a breakdown by function or activity. Sections A, B, C, 
and D should include budget estimates for the whole project except 
when applying for assistance which requires Federal authorization in 
annual or other funding period increments. In the latter case, 
Sections A, B, C, and D should provide the budget for the first 
budget period (usually a year) and Section E should present the need 
for Federal assistance in the subsequent budget periods. All 
applications should contain a breakdown by the object class 
categories shown in Lines a-k of Section B.

Section A. Budget Summary Lines 1-4, Columns (a) and (b)

    For applications pertaining to a single Federal grant program 
(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog number) and not requiring a 
functional or activity breakdown, enter on Line 1 under Column (a) 
the catalog program title and the catalog number in Column (b).
    For applications pertaining to a single program requiring budget 
amounts by multiple function or activities, enter the name of each 
activity or function on each line in Column (a), and enter the 
catalog number in Column (b). For applications pertaining to 
multiple programs where none of the programs require a breakdown by 
function or activity, enter the catalog program title on each line 
in Column (a) and the respective catalog number of each line in 
Column (b).
    For applications pertaining to multiple programs where one or 
more programs require a breakdown by function or activity, prepare a 
separate sheet for each program requiring the breakdown. Additional 
sheets should be used when one form does not provide adequate space 
for all breakdown of data required. However, when more than one 
sheet is used, the first page should provide the summary totals by 
programs.

Lines 1-4, Columns (c) Through (g)

    For new applications, leave Columns (c) and (d) blank. For each 
line entry in Columns (a) and (b), enter in Columns (e), (f), and 
(g) the appropriate amounts of funds needed to support the project 
for the first funding period (usually a year).
    For continuing grant program applications, submit these forms 
before the end of each funding period as required by the grantor 
agency. Enter in Columns (c) and (d) the estimated amounts of funds 
which will remain unobligated at the end of the grant funding period 
only if the Federal grantor agency instructions provide for this. 
Otherwise, leave these columns blank. Enter in Columns (e) and (f) 
the amounts of funds needed for the upcoming period. The amount(s) 
in Column (g) should be the sum of amounts in Columns (e) and (f).
    For supplemental grants and changes to existing grants, do not 
use Columns (c) and (d). Enter in Column (e) the amount of the 
increase or decrease of Federal funds and enter in Column (f) the 
amount of the increase or decrease of non-Federal funds. In Column 
(g) enter the new total budgeted amount (Federal and non-Federal) 
which includes the total previous authorized budgeted amounts plus 
or minus, as appropriate, the amounts shown in Columns (e) and (f). 
The amount(s) in Column (g) should not equal the sum of amounts in 
Columns (e) and (f).
    Line 5--Show the total for all columns used.

Section B. Budget Categories

    In the column headings (1) through (4), enter the titles of the 
same programs, functions, and activities shown on Lines 1-4, Column 
(a), Section A. When additional sheets are prepared for Section A, 
provide similar column headings on each sheet. For each program, 
function or activity, fill in the total requirements for funds (both 
Federal and non-Federal) by object class categories.
    Lines 6a-i--Show the totals of Lines 6a to 6h in each column.
    Line 6j--Show the amount of indirect cost.
    Line 6k--Enter the total of amounts on Lines 6i and 6j. For all 
applications for new grants and continuation grants the total amount 
in column (5), Line 6K, should be the same as the total amount shown 
in Section A, Column (g), Line 5. For supplemental grants and 
changes to grants, the total amount of the increase or decrease as 
shown in Columns (1)-(4), Line 6k, should be the same as the sum of 
the amounts in Section A, Columns (e) and (f) on Line 5.
    Line 7--Enter the estimated amount of income, if any, expected 
to be generated from this project. Do not add or subtract this 
amount from the total project amount. Show under the program 
narrative statement the nature and source of income. The estimated 
amount of program income may be considered by the federal grantor 
agency in determining the total amount of the grant.

Section C. Non-Federal Resources

    Lines 8-11 Enter amounts of non-Federal resources that will be 
used on the grant. If in-kind contributions are included, provide a 
brief explanation on a separate sheet.
    Column (a)--Enter the program titles identical to Column (a), 
Section A. A breakdown by function or activity is not necessary.
    Column (b)--Enter the contribution to be made by the applicant.
    Column (c)--Enter the amount of the State's cash and in-kind 
contribution if the applicant is not a State or State agency. 
Applicants which are a State or State agencies should leave this 
column blank.
    Column (d)--Enter the amount of cash and in-kind contributions 
to be made from all other sources.
    Column (e)--Enter totals in Columns (b), (c), and (d).
    Line 12--Enter the total for each of Columns (b)-(e). The amount 
in Column (e) should be equal to the amount on Line 5, Column (f), 
Section A.

Section D. Forecasted Cash Needs

    Line 13--Enter the amount of cash needed by quarter from the 
grantor agency during the first year.
    Line 14--Enter the amount of cash from all other sources needed 
by quarter during the first year.
    Line 15--Enter the totals of amounts on Lines 13 and 14.

Section E. Budget Estimates of Federal Funds Needed for Balance of 
the Project

    Lines 16-19--Enter in Column (a) the same grant program titles 
shown in Column (a), Section A. A breakdown by function or activity 
is not necessary. For new applications and continuation grant 
applications, enter in the proper columns amounts of Federal funds 
which will be needed to complete the program or project over the 
succeeding funding periods (usually in years). This section need not 
be completed for revisions (amendments, changes, or supplements) to 
funds for the current year of existing grants.
    If more than four lines are needed to list the program titles, 
submit additional schedules as necessary.
    Line 20--Enter the total for each of the Columns (b)-(e). When 
additional schedules are prepared for this Section, annotate 
accordingly and show the overall totals on this line.

Section F. Other Budget Information

    Line 21--Use this space to explain amounts for individual direct 
object-class costs categories that may appear to be out of the 
ordinary or to explain the details as required by the Federal 
grantor agency.
    Line 22--Enter the type of indirect rate (provisional, 
predetermined, final or fixed) that will be in effect during the 
funding period, the estimated amount of the base to which the rate 
is applied, and the total indirect expense.
    Line 23--Provide any other explanations or comments deemed 
necessary.

Assurances--Non-Construction Programs

    Public reporting burden for this collection of information is 
estimated to average 15 minutes per response, including time for 
reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering 
and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing

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the collection of information. Send comments regarding the burden 
estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, 
including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0348-0043), 
Washington, DC 20503.
    Please do not return your completed form to the Office of 
Management and Budget; send it to the address provided by the 
sponsoring agency.

    Note: Certain of these assurances may not be applicable to your 
project or program. If you have questions, please contact the 
awarding agency. Further, certain Federal awarding agencies may 
require applicants to certify to additional assurances. If such is 
the case, you will be notified.

    As the duly authorized representative of the applicant I certify 
that the applicant:
    1. Has the legal authority to apply for Federal assistance and 
the institutional, managerial and financial capability (including 
funds sufficient to pay the non-Federal share of project costs) to 
ensure proper planning, management and completion of the project 
described in this application.
    2. Will give the awarding agency, the Comptroller General of the 
United States, and if appropriate, the State, through any authorized 
representative, access to and the right to examine all records, 
books, papers, or documents related to the award; and will establish 
a proper accounting system in accordance with generally accepted 
accounting standards or agency directives.
    3. Will establish safeguards to prohibit employees from using 
their positions for a purpose that constitutes or presents the 
appearance of personal or organizational conflict of interest, or 
personal gain.
    4. Will initiate and complete the work within the applicable 
time frame after receipt of approval of the awarding agency.
    5. Will comply with the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 
(42 U.S.C. Secs. 4728-4763) relating to prescribed standards for 
merit systems for programs funded under one of the nineteen statutes 
or regulations specified in Appendix A of OPM's Standards for a 
Merit System of Personnel Administration (5 C.F.R. 900, Subpart F).
    6. Will comply with all Federal statutes relating to 
nondiscrimination. These include but are not limited to: (a) Title 
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-352) which prohibits 
discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin; (b) 
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended (20 U.S.C. 
Secs. 1681-1683, and 1685-1686), which prohibits discrimination on 
the basis of sex; (c) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
as amended (29 U.S.C. Sec. 794), which prohibits discrimination on 
the basis of handicaps; (d) the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. Secs. 6101-6107), which prohibits discrimination 
on the basis of age; (e) the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 
1972 (P.L. 92-255), as amended, relating to nondiscrimination on the 
basis of drug abuse; (f) the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and 
Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 
(P.L. 91-616), as amended, relating to nondiscrimination on the 
basis of alcohol abuse or alcoholism; (g) Secs. 523 and 527 of the 
Public Health Service Act of 1912 (42 U.S.C. 290 dd-3 and 290 ee-3), 
as amended, relating to confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse 
patient records; (h) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. Sec. 3601 et seq.), as amended, relating to non-
discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of housing; (i) any 
other nondiscrimination provisions in the specific statute(s) under 
which application for Federal assistance is being made; and (j) the 
requirements of any other nondiscrimination statute(s) which may 
apply to the application.
    7. Will comply, or has already complied, with the requirements 
of Titles II and III of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real 
Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-646) which 
provide for fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced or 
whose property is acquired as a result of Federal or federally 
assisted programs. These requirements apply to all interests in real 
property acquired for project purposes regardless of Federal 
participation in purchases.
    8. Will comply, as applicable, with the provisions of the Hatch 
Act (5 U.S.C. Secs. 1501-1508 and 7324-7328) which limit the 
political activities of employees whose principal employment 
activities are funded in whole or in part with Federal funds.
    9. Will comply, as applicable, with the provisions of the Davis-
Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. Secs. 276a to 276a-7), the Copeland Act (40 
U.S.C. Secs. 276c and 18 U.S.C. Secs. 874), and the Contract Work 
Hours and Safety Standards Act (40 U.S.C. Secs. 327-333), regarding 
labor standards for federally assisted construction subagreements.
    10. Will comply, if applicable, with flood insurance purchase 
requirements of Section 102(a) of the Flood Disaster Protection Act 
of 1973 (P.L. 93-234) which requires recipients in a special flood 
hazard area to participate in the program and to purchase flood 
insurance if the total cost of insurable construction and 
acquisition is $10,000 or more.
    11. Will comply with environmental standards which may be 
prescribed pursuant to the following: (a) institution of 
environmental quality control measures under the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (P.L. 91-190) and Executive Order 
(EO) 11514; (b) notification of violating facilities pursuant to EO 
11738; (c) protection of wetlands pursuant to EO 11990; (d) 
evaluation of flood hazards in floodplains in accordance with EO 
11988; (e) assurance of project consistency with the approved State 
management program developed under the Coastal Zone Management Act 
of 1972 (16 U.S.C. Secs. 1451 et seq.; (f) conformity of Federal 
actions to State (Clear Air) Implementation Plan under Section 
176(c) of the Clear Air Act of 1955, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
Secs. 7401 et seq.); (g) protection of underground sources of 
drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, as 
amended, (P.L. 93-523); and (h) protection of endangered species 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, (P.L. 93-205).
    12. Will comply the with Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (16 
U.S.C. Secs. 1271 et seq.) related to protecting components or 
potential components of the national wild and scenic rivers system.
    13. Will assist the awarding agency in assuring compliance with 
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 470), EO 11593 (identification and protection of 
historic properties), and the Archaeological and Historic 
Preservation Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 469a-l et seq.).
    14. Will comply with P.L. 93-348 regarding the protection of 
human subjects involved in research, development, and related 
activities supported by this award of assistance.
    15. Will comply with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966 
(P.L. 89-544, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2131 et seq.) pertaining to the 
care, handling, and treatment of warm blooded animals held for 
research, teaching, or other activities supported by this award of 
assistance.
    16. Will comply with the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention 
Act (42 U.C.S. Secs. 4801 et seq.) which prohibits the use of lead 
paint in construction or rehabilitation of residence structures.
    17. Will cause to be performed the required financial and 
compliance audits in accordance with the Single Audit Act of 1984 or 
OMB Circular No. A-133, Audits of Institutions of Higher Learning 
and other Non-profit Institutions.
    18. Will comply with applicable requirements of all other 
Federal laws, executive orders, regulations and policies governing 
this program.

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Program Narrative

    This program narrative section was designed for use by many and 
varied programs. Consequently, it is not possible to provide 
specific guidance for developing a program narrative statement that 
would be appropriate in all cases. Applicants must refer to the 
relevant program announcement for information on specific program 
requirements and any additional guidelines for preparing the 
narrative statement. The following are general guidelines for 
preparing a program narrative statement.
    The program narrative provides a major means by which the 
application is evaluated and ranked to compete with other 
applications for available assistance. It should be concise and 
complete and should address the activity for which Federal funds are 
requested. Supporting documents should be included where they can 
present information clearly and succinctly. Applicants are 
encouraged to provide information on their organizational structure, 
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information considered to be relevant. Awarding offices use this and 
other information to determine whether the applicant has the 
capability and resources necessary to carry out the proposed 
project. It is important, therefore, that this information be 
included in the application. However, in the narrative the applicant 
must distinguish between resources directly related to the proposed 
project from those which will not be used in support of the specific 
project for which funds are requested.
    Cross-referencing should be used rather than repetition. ACF is 
particularly interested in specific factual information and 
statements of measurable goals in quantitative terms. Narratives are 
evaluated on the basis of substance, not length. Extensive exhibits 
are not required. (Supporting information concerning activities 
which will not be directly funded by the grant or information which 
does not directly pertain to an integral part of the grant funded 
activity should be placed in an appendix.) Pages should be numbered 
for easy reference.
    Prepare the program narrative statement in accordance with the 
following instructions:
     Applicants submitting new applications or competing 
continuation applications should respond to Items A and D.
     Applicants submitting noncompeting continuation 
applications should respond to Item B.
     Applicants requesting supplemental assistance should 
respond to Item C.

A. Project Description--Components

1. Project Summary/Abstract

    A summary of the project description (usually a page or less) 
with reference to the funding request should be placed directly 
behind the table of contents or SF-424.

2. Objectives and Need for Assistance

    Applicants must clearly identify the physical, economic, social, 
financial, institutional, or other problem(s) requiring a solution. 
The need for assistance must be demonstrated and the principal and 
subordinate objectives of the project must be clearly stated; 
supporting documentation such as letters of support and testimonials 
from concerned interests other than the applicant may be included. 
Any relevant data based on planning studies should be included or 
referenced in the endnotes/footnotes. Incorporate demographic data 
and participant/beneficiary information, as needed. In developing 
the narrative, the applicant may volunteer or be requested to 
provide information on the total range of projects currently 
conducted and supported (or to be initiated), some of which may be 
outside the scope of the program announcement.

3. Results or Benefits Expected

    Identify results and benefits to be derived. For example, when 
applying for a grant to establish a neighborhood child care center, 
describe who will occupy the facility, who will use the facility, 
how the facility will be used, and how the facility will benefit the 
community which it will serve.

4. Approach

    Outline a plan of action which describes the scope and detail of 
how the proposed work will be accomplished. Account for all 
functions or activities identified in the application. Cite factors 
which might accelerate or decelerate the work and state your reason 
for taking this approach rather than others. Describe any unusual 
features of the project such as design or technological innovations, 
reductions in cost or time, or extraordinary social and community 
involvement.
    Provide quantitative monthly or quarterly projections of the 
accomplishments to be achieved for each function or activity in such 
terms as the number of people to be served and the number of 
microloans made. When accomplishments cannot be quantified by 
activity or function, list them in chronological order to show the 
schedule of accomplishments and their target dates.
    Identify the kinds of data to be collected, maintained, and/or 
disseminated. (Note that clearance from the U.S. Office of 
Management and Budget might be needed prior to an information 
collection.) List organizations, cooperating entities, consultants, 
or other key individuals who will work on the project along with a 
short description of the nature of their effort or contribution.

5. Evaluation

    Provide a narrative addressing how you will evaluate (1) the 
results of your project and (2) the conduct of your programs. In 
addressing the evaluation of results, state how you will determine 
the extent to which the program has achieved its stated objectives 
and the extent to which the accomplishment of objectives can be 
attributed to the program. Discuss the criteria to be used to 
evaluate results; explain the methodology that will be used to 
determine if the needs identified and discussed are being met and if 
the project results and benefits are being achieved. With respect to 
the conduct of your program, define the procedures you will employ 
to determine whether the program is being conducted in a manner 
consistent with the work plan you presented and discuss the impact 
of the program's various activities upon the program's 
effectiveness.

6. Geographic Location

    Give the precise location of the project and boundaries of the 
area to be served by the proposed project. Maps or other graphics 
aids may be attached.

7. Additional Information (Include if Applicable)

    Additional information may be provided in the body of the 
program narrative or in the appendix. Refer to the program 
announcement and ``General Information and Instructions'' for 
guidance on placement of application materials.
    STAFF AND POSITION DATA--Provide a biographical sketch for key 
personnel appointed and a job description for each vacant key 
position. Some programs require both for all positions. Refer to the 
program announcement for guidance on presenting this information. 
Generally, a biographical sketch is required for original staff and 
new members as appointed.
    PLAN FOR PROJECT CONTINUANCE BEYOND GRANT SUPPORT--A plan for 
securing resources and continuing project activities after Federal 
assistance has ceased.
    BUSINESS PLAN--When federal grant funds will be used to make an 
equity investment, provide a business plan. Refer to the program 
announcement for guidance on presenting this information.
    ORGANIZATION PROFILES--Information on applicant organizations 
and their cooperating partners such as organization charts, 
financial statements, audit reports or statements from CPA/Licensed 
Public Accountant, Employer Identification Numbers, names of bond 
carriers, contact persons and telephone numbers, child care licenses 
and other documentation of professional accreditation, information 
on compliance with federal/state/local government standards, 
documentation of experience in program area, and other pertinent 
information. Any non-profit organization submitting an application 
must submit proof of its non-profit status in its application at the 
time of submission. The non-profit agency can accomplish this by 
providing a copy of the applicant's listing in the Internal Revenue 
Service's (IRS) most recent list of tax-exempt organizations 
described in Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code or by providing a 
copy of the currently valid IRS tax exemption certificate, or by 
providing a copy of the articles of incorporation bearing the seal 
of the State in which the corporation or association is domiciled.
    DISSEMINATION PLAN--A plan for distributing reports and other 
project outputs to colleagues and the public. Applicants must 
provide a description of the kind, volume and timing of 
distribution.
    THIRD-PARTY AGEREEMENTS--Written agreements between grantees and 
subgrantees or subcontractors or other cooperating entities. These 
agreements may detail scope of work, work schedules, remuneration, 
and other terms and conditions that structure or define the 
relationship.
    WAIVER REQUEST--A statement of program requirements for which 
waivers will be needed to permit the proposed project to be 
conducted.
    LETTERS OF SUPPORT--Statements from community, public and 
commercial leaders which support the project proposed for funding.

B. Noncompeting Continuation Applications

    A program narrative usually will not be required for 
noncompeting continuation applications for nonconstruction programs. 
Noncompeting continuation applications shall be abbreviated unless 
the ACF Program Office administrating this program has issued a 
notice to the grantee that a full application will be required.
    An abbreviated application consists of:
    1. The Standard Form 424 series (SF 424, SF 424A, SF-424B).
    2. The estimated or actual unobligated balance remaining from 
the previous budget period should be identified on an accurate SF-
269 as well as in Section A, Columns (c) and (d) of the SF-424A.
    3. The grant budget, broken down into the object class 
categories on the 424A, and if

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category ``other '' is used, the specific items supported must be 
identified.
    4. Required certifications.
    A full application consists of all elements required for an 
abbreviated application plus:
    1. Program narrative information explaining significant changes 
to the original program narrative statement, a description of 
accomplishments from the prior budget period, a projection of 
accomplishments throughout the entire remaining project period, and 
any other supplemental information that ACF informs the grantee is 
necessary.
    2. A full budget proposal for the budget period under 
consideration with a fully cost analysis of all budget categories.
    3. A corrective action plan, if requested by ACF, to address 
organizational performance weaknesses.

C. Supplemental Requests

    For supplemental assistance requests, explain the reason for the 
request and justify the need for addition funding. Provide a budget 
and budget justification only for those items for which additional 
funds are requested. (See Item D for guidelines on preparing a 
budget and budget justification.)

D. Budget and Budget Justification

    Provide line item detail and detailed calculations for each 
budget class identified on the Budget Information form. Detailed 
calculations must include estimation methods, quantities, unit 
costs, and other similar quantitative detail sufficient for the 
calculation to be duplicated. The detailed budget must also include 
a breakout by the funding sources identified in Block 15 of the SF-
424.
    Provide a narrative budget justification which describes how the 
categorical costs are derived. Discuss the necessity, 
reasonableness, and allocability of the proposed costs.
    The following guidelines are for preparing the budget and budget 
justification. Both federal and non-federal resources should be 
detailed and justified in the budget and narrative justification. 
For purposes of preparing the program narrative, ``federal 
resources'' refers only to the ACF grant for which you are applying. 
Non-Federal resources are all other federal and non-federal 
resources. It is suggested that for the budget, applicants use a 
column format: Column 1, object class categories; Column 2, federal 
budget amounts; Column 3, non-federal budget amounts, and Column 4, 
total amounts. The budget justification should be a narrative.
    Personnel. Costs of employee salaries and wages.
    Justification: Identify the project director or principal 
investigator, if known. For each staff person, show name/title, time 
commitment to the project (in months), time commitment to the 
project (as a percentage of full-time equivalent), annual salary, 
grant salary, wage rates, etc. Do not include costs of consultants 
or personnel costs of delegate agencies or of specific project(s) or 
business to be financed by the applicant.
    Fringe Benefits. Costs of employee fringe benefits unless 
treated as part of an approved indirect cost rate.
    Justification: Provide a breakdown of amounts and percentages 
that comprise fringe benefits costs, such as health insurance, FICA, 
retirement insurance, taxes, etc.
    Travel. Costs of project related travel by employees of the 
applicant organization (does not include costs of consultant 
travel).
    Justification: For each trip, show the total number of 
traveler(s), travel destination, duration of trip, per diem, mileage 
allowances, if privately owned vehicles will be used, and other 
transportation costs and subsistence allowances. Travel costs for 
key staff to attend ACF sponsored workshops as specified in this 
program announcement should be detailed in the budget.
    Equipment. costs of all non-expendable, tangible personal 
property to be acquired by the project where each article has a 
useful life of more than one year and an acquisition cost which 
equals the lesser of (a) the capitalization level established by the 
applicant organization for financial statement purposes, or (b) 
$5000.
    Justification: For each type of equipment requested, provide a 
description of the equipment, costs per unit, number of units, total 
cost, and a plan for use on the project, as well as use or disposal 
of the equipment after the project ends.
    Supplies. Costs of all tangible personal property (supplies) 
other than that included under the Equipment category.
    Justification: Specify general categories of supplies and their 
costs. Show computations and provide other information which 
supports the amount requested.
    Contractual. Costs of all contracts for services and goods 
except for those which belong under other categories such as 
equipment, supplies, construction, etc. Third-party evaluation 
contracts (if applicable) and contracts with secondary recipient 
organizations including delegate agencies and specific project(s) or 
businesses to be financed by the applicant should be included under 
this category.
    Justification: All procurement transactions shall be conducted 
in a manner to provide, to the maximum extent practical, open and 
free competition. If procurement competitions were held or if a sole 
source procurement is being proposed, attach a list of proposed 
contractors, indicating the names of the organizations, the purposes 
of the contracts, the estimated dollar amounts, and the award 
selection process. Also provide back-up documentation where 
necessary to support selection process.

    Note: Whenever the applicant/grantee intends to delegate part of 
the program to another agency, the applicant/grantee must provide a 
detailed budget and budget narrative for each delegate agency by 
agency title, along with the required supporting information 
referenced in these instructions.

    Applicants must identify and justify any anticipated procurement 
that is expected to exceed the simplified purchase threshold 
(currently set at $100,000) and to be awarded without competition. 
Recipients are required to make available to ACF pre-award review 
and procurement documents, such as request for proposals or 
invitations for bids, independent cost estimates, etc. under the 
conditions identified at 45 CFR Part 74.44(e).
    Construction. Costs of construction by applicant or contractor.
    Justification: Provide detailed budget and narrative in 
accordance with instructions for other object class categories. 
Identify which construction activity/costs will be contractual and 
which will assumed by the applicant.
    Other. Enter the total of all other costs. Such costs, where 
applicable and appropriate, may include but are not limited to 
insurance, food, medical and dental costs (noncontractual), fees and 
travel paid directly to individual consultants, space and equipment 
rentals, printing and publication, computer use, training costs, 
including tuition and stipends, training service costs including 
wage payments to individuals and supportive service payments, and 
staff development costs.
    Indirect Charges. Total amount of indirect costs. This category 
should be used only when the applicant currently has an indirect 
cost rate approved by the Department of Health and Human Services or 
another cognizant Federal agency.
    Justification: With the exception of most local government 
agencies, an applicant which will charge indirect costs to the grant 
must enclose a copy of the current rate agreement if the agreement 
was negotiated with a cognizant Federal agency other than the 
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). If the rate 
agreement was negotiated with the Department of Health and Human 
Services, the applicant should state this in the budget 
justification. If the applicant organization is in the process of 
initially developing or renegotiating a rate, it should immediately 
upon notification that an award will be made, develop a tentative 
direct cost rate proposal based on its most recently completed 
fiscal year in accordance with the principles set forth in the 
pertinent DHHS Guide for Establishing Indirect Cost Rates, and 
submit it to the appropriate DHHS Regional Office. Applicants 
awaiting approval of their indirect cost proposals may also request 
indirect costs. it should be noted that when an indirect cost rate 
is requested, those costs included in the indirect cost pool should 
not be also charged as direct costs to the grant. Also, if the 
applicant is requesting a rate which is less than what is allowed 
under this program announcement, the authorized representative of 
your organization needs to submit a signed acknowledgement that the 
applicant is accepting a lower rate than allowed.
    Program Income. the estimated amount of income, if any, expected 
to be generated from this project. Separately show expected program 
income generated from program support and income generated from 
other mobilized funds. Do not add or subtract this amount from the 
budget total. Show the nature and source of income in the program 
narrative statement.
    Justification: Describe the nature, source and anticipated use 
of program income in the budget or reference pages in the program 
narrative statement which contain this information.
    Non-Federal Resources. Amounts of non-Federal resources that 
will be used to support the project as identified in Block 15 of the 
SF-424.

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    Justification: The firm commitment of these resources must be 
documented and submitted with the application in order to be given 
credit in the review process.
    Total Direct Charges, Total Indirect Charges, Total Project 
Costs. (self explanatory)
    This certification is required by the regulations implementing 
the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988: 45 CFR Part 76, Subpart F. 
Sections 76.630 (c) and (d)(2) and 76.645 (a)(1) and (b) provide 
that a Federal agency may designate a central receipt point for 
STATE-WIDE AND STATE AGENCY-WIDE certifications, and for 
notification of criminal drug convictions. For the Department of 
Health and Human Services, the central point is: Division of Grants 
Management and Oversight, Office of Management and Acquisition, 
Department of Health and Human Services, Room 517-D, 200 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.

Certification Regarding Drug-Free Workplace Requirements (Instructions 
for Certification)

    1. By signing and/or submitting this application or grant 
agreement, the grantee is providing the certification set out below.
    2. The certification set out below is a material representation 
of fact upon which reliance is placed when the agency awards the 
grant. If it is later determined that the grantee knowingly rendered 
a false certification, or otherwise violates the requirements of the 
Drug-Free Workplace Act, the agency, in addition to any other 
remedies available to the Federal Government, may take action 
authorized under the Drug-Free Workplace Act.
    3. For grantees other than individuals, Alternate I applies.
    4. For grantees who are individuals, Alternate II applies.
    5. Workplaces under grants, for grantees other than individuals, 
need not be identified on the certification. If known, they may be 
identified in the grant application. If the grantee does not 
identify the workplaces at the time of application, or upon award, 
if there is no application, the grantee must keep the identity of 
the workplace(s) on file in its office and make the information 
available for Federal inspection. Failure to identify all known 
workplaces constitutes a violation of the grantee's drug-free 
workplace requirements.
    6. Workplace identifications must include the actual address of 
buildings (or parts of buildings) or other sites where work under 
the grant takes place. Categorical descriptions may be used (e.g., 
all vehicles of a mass transit authority or State highway department 
while in operation, State employees in each local unemployment 
office, performers in concert halls or radio studios).
    7. If the workplace identified to the agency changes during the 
performance of the grant, the grantee shall inform the agency of the 
change(s), if it previously identified the workplaces in question 
(see paragraph five).
    8. Definitions of terms in the Nonprocurement Suspension and 
Debarment common rule and Drug-Free Workplace common rule apply to 
this certification. Grantees' attention is called, in particular, to 
the following definitions from these rules:
    Controlled substance means a controlled substance in Schedules I 
through V of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and as 
further defined by regulation (21 CFR 1308.11 through 1308.15);
    Conviction means a finding of guilt (including a plea of nolo 
contendere) or imposition of sentence, or both, by any judicial body 
charged with the responsibility to determine violations of the 
Federal or State criminal drug statutes;
    Criminal drug statute means a Federal or non-Federal criminal 
statute involving the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, use, or 
possession of any controlled substance;
    Employee means the employee of a grantee directly engaged in the 
performance of work under a grant, including: (i) All direct charge 
employees; (ii) All indirect charge employees unless their impact or 
involvement is insignificant to the performance of the grant; and, 
(iii) Temporary personnel and consultants who are directly engaged 
in the performance of work under the grant and who are on the 
grantee's payroll. This definition does not include workers not on 
the payroll of the grantee (e.g., volunteers, even if used to meet a 
matching requirement; consultants or independent contractors not on 
the grantee's payroll; or employees of subrecipients or 
subcontractors in covered workplaces).

Certification Regarding Drug-Free Workplace Requirements

Alternate I. (Grantees Other Than Individuals)

    The grantee certifies that it will or will not continue to 
provide a drug-free workplace by:
    (a) Publishing a statement notifying employees that the unlawful 
manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a 
controlled substance is prohibited in the grantee's workplace and 
specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for 
violation of such prohibition;
    (b) Establishing an ongoing drug-free awareness program to 
inform employees about--
    (1) The dangers of drug abuse in the workplace;
    (2) The grantee's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace;
    (3) Any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee 
assistance programs; and
    (4) The penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug 
abuse violations occurring in the workplace;
    (c) Making it a requirement that each employee to be engaged in 
the performance of the grant be given a copy of the statement 
required by paragraph (a);
    (d) Notifying the employee in the statement required by 
paragraph (a) that, as a condition of employment under the grant, 
the employee will--
    (1) Abide by the terms of the statement; and
    (2) Notify the employer in writing of his or her conviction for 
a violation of a criminal drug statute occurring in the workplace no 
later than five calendar days after such conviction;
    (e) Notifying the agency in writing, within ten calendar days 
after receiving notice under paragraph (d)(2) from an employee or 
otherwise receiving actual notice of such conviction. Employers of 
convicted employees must provide notice, including position title, 
to every grant officer or other designee on whose grant activity the 
convicted employee was working, unless the Federal agency has 
designated a central point for the receipt of such notices. Notice 
shall include the identification number(s) of each affected grant;
    (f) Taking one of the following actions, within 30 calendar days 
of receiving notice under paragraph (d)(2), with respect to any 
employee who is so convicted--
    (1) Taking appropriate personnel action against such an 
employee, up to and including termination, consistent with the 
requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; or
    (2) Requiring such employee to participate satisfactorily in a 
drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program approved for such 
purposes by a Federal, State, or local health, law enforcement, or 
other appropriate agency;
    (g) Making a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-
free workplace through implementation of paragraphs (a), (b), (c), 
(d), (e) and (f).
    (B) The grantee may insert in the space provided below the 
site(s) for the performance of work done in connection with the 
specific grant:

Place of Performance (Street address, city, county, state, zip code)

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    Check {time}  if there are workplaces on file that are not 
identified here.

Alternate II. (Grantees Who Are Individuals)

    (a) The grantee certifies that, as a condition of the grant, he 
or she will not engage in the unlawful manufacture, distribution, 
dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance in 
conducting any activity with the grant;
    (b) If convicted of a criminal drug offense resulting from a 
violation occurring during the conduct of any grant activity, he or 
she will report the conviction, in writing, within 10 calendar days 
of the conviction, to every grant officer or other designee, unless 
the Federal agency designates a central point for the receipt of 
such notices. When notice is made to such a central point, it shall 
include the identification number(s) of each affected grant.

[55 FR 21690, 21702, May 25, 1990]

Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and 
Voluntary Exclusion--Lower Tier Covered Transactions

Instructions for Certification

    1. By signing and submitting this proposal, the prospective 
lower tier participant is providing the certification set out below.
    2. The certification in this clause is a material representation 
of fact upon which reliance was placed when this transaction was 
entered into. If it is later determined that

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the prospective lower tier participant knowingly rendered an 
erroneous certification, in addition to other remedies available to 
the Federal Government the department or agency with which this 
transaction originated may pursue available remedies, including 
suspension and/or debarment.
    3. The prospective lower tier participant shall provide 
immediate written notice to the person to which this proposal is 
submitted if at any time the prospective lower tier participant 
learns that its certification was erroneous when submitted or had 
become erroneous by reason of changed circumstances.
    4. The terms covered transaction, debarred, suspended, 
ineligible, lower tier covered transaction, participant, person, 
primary covered transaction, principal, proposal, and voluntarily 
excluded, as used in this clause, have the meaning set out in the 
Definitions and Coverage sections of rules implementing Executive 
Order 12549. You may contact the person to which this proposal is 
submitted for assistance in obtaining a copy of those regulations.
    5. The prospective lower tier participant agrees by submitting 
this proposal that, [[Page 33043]] should the proposed covered 
transaction be entered into, it shall not knowingly enter into any 
lower tier covered transaction with a person who is proposed for 
debarment under 48 CFR part 9, subpart 9.4, debarred, suspended, 
declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in 
this covered transaction, unless authorized by the department or 
agency with which this transaction originated.
    6. The prospective lower tier participant further agrees by 
submitting this proposal that it will include this clause titled 
``Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and 
Voluntary Exclusion-Lower Tier Covered Transaction,'' without 
modification, in all lower tier covered transactions and in all 
solicitations for lower tier covered transactions.
    7. A participant in a covered transaction may rely upon a 
certification of a prospective participant in a lower tier covered 
transaction that it is not proposed for debarment under 48 CFR part 
9, subpart 9.4, debarred, suspended, ineligible, or voluntarily 
excluded from covered transactions, unless it knows that the 
certification is erroneous. A participant may decide the method and 
frequency by which it determines the eligibility of its principals. 
Each participant may, but is not required to, check the List of 
Parties Excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement 
Programs.
    8. Nothing contained in the foregoing shall be construed to 
require establishment of a system of records in order to render in 
good faith the certification required by this clause. The knowledge 
and information of a participant is not required to exceed that 
which is normally possessed by a prudent person in the ordinary 
course of business dealings.
    9. Except for transactions authorized under paragraph 5 of these 
instructions, if a participant in a covered transaction knowingly 
enters into a lower tier covered transaction with a person who is 
proposed for debarment under 48 CFR part 9, subpart 9.4, suspended, 
debarred, ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in 
this transaction, in addition to other remedies available to the 
Federal Government, the department or agency with which this 
transaction originated may pursue available remedies, including 
suspension and/or debarment.
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Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and 
Voluntary Exclusion--Lower Tier Covered Transactions

    (1) The prospective lower tier participant certifies, by 
submission of this proposal, that neither it nor its principals is 
presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared 
ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in this 
transaction by any Federal department or agency.
    (2) Where the prospective lower tier participant is unable to 
certify to any of the statements in this certification, such 
prospective participant shall attach an explanation to this 
proposal.

Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, and Other Responsibility 
Matters--Primary Covered Transactions

Instructions for Certification

    1. By signing and submitting this proposal, the prospective 
primary participant is providing the certification set out below.
    2. The inability of a person to provide the certification 
required below will not necessarily result in denial of 
participation in this covered transaction. The prospective 
participant shall submit an explanation of why it cannot provide the 
certification set out below. The certification or explanation will 
be considered in connection with the department or agency's 
determination whether to enter into this transaction. However, 
failure of the prospective primary participant to furnish a 
certification or an explanation shall disqualify such person from 
participation in this transaction.
    3. The certification in this clause is a material representation 
of fact upon which reliance was placed when the department or agency 
determined to enter into this transaction. If it is later determined 
that the prospective primary participant knowingly rendered an 
erroneous certification, in addition to other remedies available to 
the Federal Government, the department or agency may terminate this 
transaction for cause or default.
    4. The prospective primary participant shall provide immediate 
written notice to the department or agency to which this proposal is 
submitted if at any time the prospective primary participant learns 
that its certification was erroneous when submitted or has become 
erroneous by reason of changed circumstances.
    5. The terms covered transaction, debarred, suspended, 
ineligible, lower tier covered transaction, participant, person, 
primary covered transaction, principal, proposal, and voluntarily 
excluded, as used in this clause, have the meanings set out in the 
Definitions and Coverage sections of the rules implementing 
Executive Order 12549. You may contact the department or agency to 
which this proposal is being submitted for assistance in obtaining a 
copy of those regulations.
    6. The prospective primary participant agrees by submitting this 
proposal that, should the proposed covered transaction be entered 
into, it shall not knowingly enter into any lower tier covered 
transaction with a person who is proposed for debarment under 48 CFR 
part 9, subpart 9.4, debarred, suspended, declared ineligible, or 
voluntarily excluded from participation in this covered transaction, 
unless authorized by the department or agency entering into this 
transaction.
    7. The prospective primary participant further agrees by 
submitting this proposal that it will include the clause titled 
``Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and 
Voluntary Exclusion-Lower Tier Covered Transaction,'' provided by 
the department or agency entering into this covered transaction, 
without modification, in all lower tier covered transactions and in 
all solicitations for lower tier covered transactions.
    8. A participant in a covered transaction may rely upon a 
certification of a prospective participant in a lower tier covered 
transaction that it is not proposed for debarment under 48 CFR part 
9, subpart 9.4, debarred, suspended, ineligible, or voluntarily 
excluded from the covered transaction, unless it knows that the 
certification is erroneous. A participant may decide the method and 
frequency by which it determines the eligibility of its principals. 
Each participant may, but is not required to, check the List of 
Parties Excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement 
Programs.
    9. Nothing contained in the foregoing shall be construed to 
require establishment of a system of records in order to render in 
good faith the certification required by this clause. The knowledge 
and information of a participant is not required to exceed that 
which is normally possessed by a prudent person in the ordinary 
course of business dealings.
    10. Except for transactions authorized under paragraph 6 of 
these instructions, if a participant in a covered transaction 
knowingly enters into a lower tier covered transaction with a person 
who is proposed for debarment under 48 CFR part 9, subpart 9.4, 
suspended, debarred, ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from 
participation in this transaction, in addition to other remedies 
available to the Federal Government, the department or agency may 
terminate this transaction for cause or default.
* * * * *

Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, and Other Responsibility 
Matters--Primary Covered Transactions

    (1) The prospective primary participant certifies to the best of 
its knowledge and belief, that it and its principals:
    (a) Are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for 
debarment, declared ineligible,

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or voluntarily excluded by any Federal department or agency;
    (b) Have not within a three-year period preceding this proposal 
been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for 
commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with 
obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, 
State or local) transaction or contract under a public transaction; 
violation of Federal or State antitrust statutes or commission of 
embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction 
of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen property;
    (c) Are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or 
civilly charged by a governmental entity (Federal, State or local) 
with commission of any of the offenses enumerated in paragraph 
(1)(b) of this certification; and
    (d) Have not within a three-year period preceding this 
application/proposal had one or more public transactions (Federal, 
State or local) terminated for cause or default.
    (2) Where the prospective primary participant is unable to 
certify to any of the statements in this certification, such 
prospective participant shall attach an explanation to this 
proposal.

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CERTIFICATION REGARDING LOBBYING

Certification for Contracts, Grants, Loans, and Cooperative Agreements

    The undersigned certifies, to the best of his or her knowledge 
and belief, that:
    (1) No Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be 
paid, by or on behalf of the undersigned, to any person for 
influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of an 
agency, Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or 
an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with the awarding 
of any Federal contract, the making of any Federal grant, the making 
of any Federal loan, the entering into to any cooperative agreement, 
and the extension, continuation, renewal, amendment, or modification 
of any Federal contract, grant, loan, or cooperative agreement.
    (2) If any funds other than Federal appropriated funds have been 
paid or will be paid to any person for influencing or attempting to 
influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of 
Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a 
Member of Congress in connection with this Federal contract, grant, 
loan, or cooperative agreement, the undersigned shall complete and 
submit Standard Form-LLL, ``Disclosure Form to Report Lobbying,'' in 
accordance with its instructions.
    (3) The undersigned shall require that the language of this 
certification be included in the award documents for all subawards 
to all tiers (including subcontracts, subgrants, and contracts under 
grants, loans, and cooperative agreements) and that all 
subrecipients shall certify and disclose accordingly.
    This certification is a material representation of fact upon 
which reliance was placed when this transaction was made or enter 
into. Submission of this certification is a prerequisite for making 
or entering into this transaction imposed by section 1352, title 31, 
U.S. Code. Any person who fails to file the required certification 
shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not 
more than $100,000 for each such failure.

Statement for Loan Guarantees and Loan Insurance

    The undersigned states, to the best of his or her knowledge and 
belief, that:
    If any funds have been paid or will be paid to any person for 
influencing or attempting to influence on officer or employee of any 
agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or 
an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with this 
commitment providing for the United States to insure or guarantee a 
loan, the undersigned shall complete and submit Standard Form-LLL, 
``Disclosure Form to Report Lobbying,'' in accordance with its 
instructions. Submission of this statement is a prerequisite for 
making or entering into this transaction imposed by section 1352, 
title 31, U.S. Code. Any person who fails to file the required 
statement shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less that 
$10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such failure.

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CERTIFICATION REGARDING ENVIRONMENT TOBACCO SMOKE

    Public Law 103-227, Part C--Environmental Tobacco Smoke, also 
known as the Pro-Children Act of 1994 (Act), requires that smoking 
not be permitted in any portion of any indoor routinely owned or 
leased or contracted for by an entity and used routinely or 
regularly for provision of health, day care, education, or library 
services to children under the age of 18, if the services are funded 
by Federal programs either directly or through State or local 
governments, by Federal grant, contract, loan, or loan guarantee. 
The law does not apply to children's services provided in private 
residences, facilities funded solely by Medicare or Medicaid funds, 
and portions of facilities used for inpatient drug or alcohol 
treatment. Failure to comply with the provisions of the law may 
result in the imposition of a civil monetary penalty of up to $1,000 
per day and/or the imposition of an administrative compliance order 
on the responsible entity.
    By signing and submitting this application the applicant/grantee 
certifies that it will comply with the requirements of the Act. The 
applicant/grantee further agrees that it will require the language 
of this certification be included in any subawards which contain 
provisions for the children's services and that all subgrantees 
shall certify accordingly.

Appendix B--Omb State Single Point Of Contact Listing

ARIZONA

Joni Saad, Arizona State Clearinghouse, 3800 N. Central Avenue, 
Fourteenth Floor, Phoenix, Arizona 85012; Telephone (602) 280-1315; 
FAX: (602) 280-1305

ARKANSAS

Mr. Tracy L. Copeland, Manager, State Clearinghouse, Office of 
Intergovernmental Services, Department of Finance and 
Administration, 1515 W. 7th St., Room 412, Little Rock, Arkansas 
72203; Telephone (501) 682-1074; FAX: (501) 682-5206

CALIFORNIA

Grants Coordinator, Office of Planning & Research, 1400 Tenth 
Street, Room 121, Sacramento, California 95814; Telephone (916) 323-
7480; FAX (916) 323-3018

DELAWARE

Francine Booth, State Single Point of Contact Executive Department, 
Thomas Collins Building, P.O. Box 1401, Dover, Delaware 19903; 
Telephone (302) 739-3326; FAX (302) 739-5661

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Charles Nichols, State Single Point of Contact, Office of Grants 
Mgmt. & Dev., 717 14th Street, N.W.--Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 
20005; Telephone: (202) 727-6554; FAX: (202) 727-1617

FLORIDA

Florida Sate Clearinghouse, Department of Community Affairs, 2740 
Centerview Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100; Telephone: (904) 
922-5438; FAX: (904) 487-2899

GEORGIA

Tom L. Reid, III, Administrator, Georgia State Clearinghouse, 254 
Washington Street, S.W.--Room 401J, Atlanta, Georgia 30334; 
Telephone: (404) 656-3855 or (404) 656-3829; FAX: (404) 656-7938

ILLINOIS

Virginia Bova, State Single Point of Contact, Department of Commerce 
and Community Affairs, James R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph, 
Suite 3-400, Chicago, Illinois 60601; Telephone: (312) 814-6028; 
FAX: (312) 814-1800

INDIANA

Frances Williams, State Budget Agency, 212 State House, 
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2796; Telephone: (317) 232-5619; FAX: 
(317) 233-3323

IOWA

Steven R. McCann, Division for Community Assistance, Iowa Department 
of Economic Development, 200 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 
50309; Telephone: (515) 242-4719; FAX: (515) 242-4859

KENTUCKY

Ronald W. Cook, Office of the Governor, Department of Local 
Government, 1024 Capitol Center Drive, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601-
8204; Telephone: (502) 573-2382; FAX: (502) 573-2512

MAINE

Joyce Benson, State Planning Office, State House Station #38, 
Augusta, Maine 04333; Telephone: (207) 287-3261; FAX: (207) 287-6489

MARYLAND

William G. Carroll, Manager, State Clearinghouse for 
Intergovernmental Assistance, Maryland Office of Planning, 301 W. 
Preston Street--Room 1104, Baltimore, Maryland 21201-2365, Staff 
Contact: Linda Janey; Telephone: (410) 225-4490; FAX: (410) 225-4480

MICHIGAN

Richard Pfaff, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, 1900 
Edison Plaza, 660 Plaza Drive, Detroit, Michigan 48226; Telephone: 
(313) 961-4266

MISSISSIPPI

Cathy Malette, Clearinghouse Officer, Department of Finance and 
Administration, 455 North Lamar Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39202-
3087; Telephone: (601) 359-6762; FAX: (601) 359-6764

MISSOURI

Lois Pohl, Federal Assistance Clearinghouse, Office of 
Administration, P.O. Box 809, Room 760, Truman Building, Jefferson 
City, Missouri 65102; Telephone: (314) 751-4834; FAX: (314) 751-7819

NEVADA

Department of Administration, State Clearinghouse, Capitol Complex, 
Carson City, Nevada 89710; Telephone: (702) 687-4065; FAX: (702) 
687-3983

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Jeffrey H. Taylor, Director, New Hampshire Office of State Planning, 
Attn: Intergovernmental Review Process, Mike Blake, 2\1/2\ Beacon 
Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301; Telephone: (603) 271-2155; 
FAX: (603) 271-1728

NEW MEXICO

Robert Peters, State Budget Division, Room 190, Bataan Memorial 
Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503; Telephone: (505) 827-3640

NEW YORK

New York State Clearinghouse, Division of the Budget, State Capitol, 
Albany, New York 12224; Telephone: (518) 474-1605; FAX: (518) 486-
56127

NORTH CAROLINA

Chrys Baggett, Director, N.C. State Clearinghouse, Office of the 
Secretary of Admin., 116 West Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 
27603-8003; Telephone: (919) 733-7232; FAX: (919) 733-9571

NORTH DAKOTA

North Dakota Single Point of Contact, Office of Intergovernmental 
Assistance, 600 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, North Dakota 58505-
0170; Telephone: (701) 224-2094; FAX: (701) 224-2308

OHIO

Larry Weaver, State Single Point of Contact, State Clearinghouse, 
Office of Budget and Management, 30 East Broad Street, 34th Floor, 
Columbus, Ohio 43266-0411. Please direct correspondence and 
questions about intergovernmental review to: Linda Wise, Telephone: 
(614) 466-0698; FAX: (614) 466-5400

RHODE ISLAND

Kevin Nelson, Review Coordinator, Department of Administration/
Division of Planning, One Capitol Hill, 4th Floor, Providence, Rhode 
Island 02908-5870; Telephone: (401) 277-2656; FAX: (401) 277-2083. 
Please direct correspondence and questions to: Review Coordinator, 
Office of Strategic Planning

SOUTH CAROLINA

Rodney Grizzle, State Single Point of Contact, Grant Services, 
Office of the Governor, 1205 Pendleton Street--Room 331, Columbia, 
South Carolina 29201; Telephone: (803) 734-0494; FAX: (803) 734-0356

TEXAS

Tom Adams, Governor's Office, Director, Intergovernmental 
Coordination, P.O. Box 12428, Austin, Texas 78711; Telephone: (512) 
463-1771; FAX: (512) 463-1888

UTAH

Carolyn Wright, Utah State Clearinghouse, Office of Planning and 
Budget, Room 116, State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114; 
Telephone: (801) 538-1535; FAX: (801) 538-1547

WEST VIRGINIA

Fred Cutlip, Director, Community Development Division, W. Virginia

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Development Office, Building #6, Room 553, Charleston, West Virginia 
25305; Telephone: (304) 558-4010; FAX: (304) 558-3248

WISCONSIN

Jeff Smith, Section Chief, State/Federal Relations, Wisconsin 
Department of Administration, 101 East Wilson Street--6th Floor, 
P.O. Box 7868, Madison, Wisconsin 53707; Telephone: (608) 266-0267; 
FAX: (608) 267-6931

WYOMING

Matthew Jones, State Single Point of Contact, Office of the 
Governor, 200 West 24th Street, State Capitol, Room 124, Cheyenne, 
Wyoming 82002; Telephone: (307) 777-7446; FAX: (307) 632-3909

TERRITORIES

GUAM

Mr. Giovanni T. Sgambelluri, Director, Bureau of Budget and 
Management Research, Office of the Governor, P.O. Box 2950, Agana, 
Guam 96910; Telephone: 011-671-472-2285; FAX: 011-671-472-2825

PUERTO RICO

Norma Burgos/Jose E. Caro, Chairwoman/Director, Puerto Rico Planning 
Board, Federal Proposals Review Office, Minillas Government Center, 
P.O. Box 41119, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00940-1119; Telephone: (809) 
727-4444, (809) 723-6190; FAX: (809) 724-3270, (809) 724-3103

NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS

Mr. Alvaro A. Santos, Executive Officer, State Single Point of 
Contact, Office of Management and Budget, Office of the Governor, 
Saipan, MP, Northern Mariana Islands 96950; Telephone: (670) 664-
2256; FAX: (670) 664-2272
Contact Person: Ms. Jacoba T. Seman, Federal Programs Coordinator; 
Telephone: (670) 644-2289; FAX: (670) 644-2272

VIRGIN ISLANDS

Nelson Bowry, Director, Office of Management and Budget, #41 
Norregade Emancipation Garden Station, Second Floor, Saint Thomas, 
Virgin Islands 00802. Please direct all questions and correspondence 
about intergovernmental review to: Linda Clarke: Telephone: (809) 
774-0750; FAX: (809) 776-0069
    In accordance with Executive Order #12372, ``Intergovernmental 
Review of Federal Programs,'' this listing represents the designated 
State Single Points of Contact. The jurisdictions not listed no 
longer participate in the process BUT GRANT APPLICANTS ARE STILL 
ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT EVEN IF YOUR STATE, TERRITORY, 
COMMONWEALTH, ETC DOES NOT HAVE A ``STATE SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT.'' 
STATES WITHOUT ``STATE SINGLE POINTS OF CONTACT'' INCLUDE: Alabama, 
Alaska, American Samoa, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Hawaii, 
Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Palau, Minnesota, Montana, 
Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, 
Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. This list is based on 
the most current information provided by the States. Information on 
any changes or apparent errors should be provided to the Office of 
Management and Budget and the State in question. Changes to the list 
will only be made upon formal question. Changes to the list will 
only be made upon formal notification by the State. Also, this 
listing is published biannually in the Catalogue of Federal Domestic 
Assistance.
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