[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 28500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13425]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration of Children and Families
[Program Announcement No. ACF/ACYF 99-06]


Fiscal Year 1999 Discretionary Announcement for Head Start Family 
Literacy Projects

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

ACTION: Notice of announcement of the availability of funds and request 
for applications from organizations with experience in family literacy 
efforts to develop training and technical assistance programs in family 
literacy for Head Start and Early Head Start grantees.

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SUMMARY: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families is making 
available $3,000,000 annually for each of the next five years to 
support one or more family literacy projects (FLPs). The project(s) 
funded under this effort will work cooperatively with the Head Start 
Bureau in designing and implementing training and technical assistance 
programs to support and strengthen the family literacy activities 
carried out by Head Start/Early Head Start grantees.
    The overall goal of the family literacy project is to improve the 
quality, intensity and outcomes of the family literacy services 
provided by Head Start and Early Head Start grantees in order to 
increase lifelong learning for Head Start and Early Head Start children 
and their parents and to assist families in achieving self sufficiency. 
The cooperative agreement(s) will be awarded competitively to eligible 
applicant(s).

DATES: The closing date and time for receipt of applications is 5:00 
p.m. (Eastern Time Zone).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of the program announcement and 
Necessary application forms can be obtained by contacting: Family 
Literacy Projects, ACYF Operation Center, 1815 North Fort Myer Drive, 
Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia 22209. The telephone number is: 1-800-
351-2293.
    Copies of the program announcement can be downloaded from the Head 
Start web site at: www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb

Eligible Applicants

    Applicants must be public or private nonprofit or for-profit 
organizations with the capability to implement a family literacy effort 
of national scope.

Project Duration

    Awards, on a competitive basis, will be for a one-year budget 
period; project periods will be for five years.

Federal Share of Projects

    Although there are no matching requirements, applicants are 
encouraged to provide non-Federal contributions to the project.

    Statutory Authority: The Head Start Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 
9831 et seq.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Number 93.600, Head Start)

    Dated: May 20, 1999.
Patricia Montoya,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
[FR Doc. 99-13425 Filed 5-25-99; 8:45 am]
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