[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 42260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20674]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4181-N-03]


Announcement of Funding Awards for Fiscal Year 1997 Public and 
Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program; Center for Community Change; 
Public Housing Graduates Program, and One Church-One Addict Program

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this document 
notifies the public of funding awards for Fiscal Year (FY 1997) to the 
Center for Community Change to administer the Public Housing Graduates 
Program at four select sites at the District of Columbia Housing 
Authority and the One Church-One Addict to administer the One Church-
One Addict Program at select sites at four housing authorities: 
Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, Port Arthur, Texas, and Tampa, 
Florida.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sonia Burgos, Director, Office of 
Crime Prevention and Security, Office of Public and Indian Housing, 
Room 4220, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, 
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20410, telephone (202) 708-0477. Hearing- or 
speech-impaired individuals may call HUD's TTY number (202)708-4594. 
(These telephone numbers are not toll-free).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The regulations governing the Public Housing 
Drug Elimination Program grants are authorized under Chapter 2, 
Subtitle C, Title V of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 11901 
et. seq.), as amended by section 581 of the National Affordable Housing 
Act of 1990 (NAHA) approved November 28, 1990, Pub. L. 101-625, and 
section 161 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (HCDA 
1992) (Pub. L. 102-550, Approved October 28, 1992).
    The Public Housing Graduates Program is designed to provide 
technical assistance and training to influence teenage students who 
reside in public housing to remain in school and out of trouble until 
they graduate, and then, register in college or a career-preparatory 
program.
    The goal of the Public Housing Graduates Program is to fashion and 
implement a surrogating initiative that can provide a low-income 
dependency prone youth who does not have the essential support of an 
intact family the assistance needed to remain in school until he/she 
graduates and, then, with strategic assistance, enlist in college or a 
career-preparation program. As a consequence, this surrogating will 
produce the long-term poverty-cycle-breaking self-sufficiency benefits 
ordinarily experienced by teenagers who are fortunate to have been born 
into intact families. This surrogating will be provided primarily by 
volunteers and organizations whose memberships have begun searching for 
ways to appropriate personal resources to reduce the losses of minority 
teenagers.
    The One Church-One Addict Program will provide technical assistance 
and training at four housing authority sites, utilizing faith 
communities as partners with housing authorities to provide a 
spiritually based aftercare program for recovering addicts in public 
housing. The program aims to mobilize and equip faith communities with 
skills to prevent recovering drug addicts from relapsing into substance 
abuse, and increase the levels of social, moral and practical support 
around elimination of the drug problem. It involves partnerships among 
housing authorities and the Addictions Studies Program in the College 
of Health Professions at Governors State University. Governors State 
University will partner with One Church-One Addict as the training 
contractor. Each participating housing authority will have a local 
partner (a drug and alcohol agency, a faith community, or other not-
for-profit agency concerned in the issue of drug and alcohol abuse).
    The goal of the One Church-One Addict Program is to provide 
training that will equip 300 faith communities with skills to become 
partners with public housing authorities in the battle to reduce 
substance abuse and relapse among public housing residents.
    The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number is 14.854.
    A total of $1,600,000 of budget authority for technical assistance 
and training was awarded to the Center for Community Change and 
$500,000 to the One Church-One Addict in Fiscal Year 1997, in 
accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545).

    Dated: July 31, 1997.
Kevin Emanuel Marchman,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
[FR Doc. 97-20674 Filed 8-5-97; 8:45 am]
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