[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 97 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27574-27575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12700]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families
[Program Announcement No. ACF/ACYF/CB-99-05]


Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 Notice of an Announcement of the 
Availability of Financial Assistance and Request for Applications To 
Support Adoption Opportunities Demonstration Projects, National Child 
Welfare Resource Centers and Child Welfare Training Projects

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

ACTION: Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 availability of financial 
assistance and request for applications to support projects under the 
Adoption Opportunities Program, Title II of the Child Abuse Prevention 
and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, as amended, [42 U.S.C. 
5111]; the Child Welfare Training Program, Section 426 of Title IV-B, 
Subpart 1, of the Social Security Act, as amended, [42 U.S.C. 626]; 
Section 476a of title IV-E of the Social Security Act, as amended, [42 
U.S.C. 676]; and Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, Section 
430 of Title IV-B, Subpart 2, of the Social Security Act, as amended, 
[42 U.S.C. 629].

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SUMMARY: The Children's Bureau (CB) within the Administration on 
Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1999 
funds for competing new Adoption Opportunities Program, Child Welfare 
Resource Center and Child Welfare Training Projects. Funds from the 
Adoption Opportunities Program are designed to provide support for 
demonstration projects that facilitate the elimination of barriers to 
adoption and provide permanent loving homes for children who would 
benefit from adoption, particularly children with special needs. Title 
IV-E of the Social Security Act, Section 476a, provides funds for 
technical assistance to the States. Discretionary funds from the 
Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program support research, training 
and technical assistance and evaluation efforts to preserve families. 
The Child Welfare Training Program funds supports discretionary awards 
to public or other non-profit institutions of higher learning for 
special projects for training personnel for work in the field of child

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welfare, including traineeships with such stipends and allowances as 
may be permitted by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). 
Specific priority areas for which grant awards are being solicited 
include:

99A: Adoption Opportunities

99A.1: Innovations for Increasing Adoptions of Minority Children
99A.2: Targeted Field-Initiated Research and Service Demonstrations
99A.3: Support for Improving Implementation of the Interstate Compact 
on the Placement of Children
99A.4: Collaborative Planning to Increase Inter-jurisdictional 
Adoptions

99B: Child Welfare National Resource Centers

99B.1: National Resource Center for Youth Development
99B.2: National Resource Center for Child Welfare Services and 
Information Technology
99B.3: National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning
99B.4: National Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
99B.5: National Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
99B.6: National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice

99C: Child Welfare Training Discretionary Grants

99C.1: Training of Child Welfare Staff to Develop Child-focused 
Intervention Skills
99C.2: Training of Child Welfare Staff to Develop Cultural Competence 
Needed to Work with Tribal Children and Families

DATES: The date and time deadline for RECEIPT of applications by DHHS 
for new grants under this announcement 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone) on 
July 19, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Copies of the program announcement will be 
automatically sent to all current Children's Bureau grantees, all 
organizations that applied for grant awards in FY 98 and all 
individuals and organizations that have asked to be placed on the 
mailing list for the FY 1999 announcement. Copies of the program 
announcement can be obtained by calling the ACYF Operations Center at 
1-800-351-2293. A copy of this program announcement is also located 
under Policy and Funding Announcements at the Children's Bureau website 
at http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Grant awards of FY 1999 funds will be made 
by September 30, 1999. The estimated funds available for new awards is 
$10.6 million and the approximate number of new grants is estimated at 
38.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Number 93.652, Adoption 
Opportunities Grants; Number 93.658, Foster Care; Number 93.556, 
Promoting Safe and Stable Families; and Number 93.648, Child Welfare 
Training)

    Dated: May 13, 1999.
Patricia Montoya,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
[FR Doc. 99-12700 Filed 5-19-99; 8:45 am]
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