[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 174 (Thursday, September 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 49020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23340]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Grant to The University of Hawaii, Center on the Family

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, ACF, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a noncompetitive grant award is 
being made to the University of Hawaii, Center on the Family, Honolulu, 
in the amount of $499,821 for a 30-month project. Under the title of 
``Financial Strain and Family Resiliency: A Comparison of Welfare and 
Working Poor Families,'' the project seeks to gain an understanding of 
the factors that foster resiliency in poor families in the face of 
severe financial strain. Specifically, this study will examine welfare 
families defined as those families receiving federally-funded Temporary 
Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and state-funded Temporary 
Assistance to Other Needy Families (TAONF). The project will utilize an 
ecological systems framework that considers individual, family, and 
social network qualities as factors that influence family well-being, 
health, and psychological and work/school adjustment in these 
financially stressed groups. The project is unique in that it focuses 
on psychological and behavioral processes, considers family resiliency 
as well as vulnerability, and includes Asians (i.e., Filipinos) and 
Pacific Islanders as well as Caucasians.
    This project is being funded noncompetitively, because the study 
will examine a broad range of attitudinal, psychological and family 
process variables that impact adjustment in several important 
psychosocial domains. Also, this study promises to provide useful 
information on how families cope with financial strain in a stragnant 
economy such as Hawaii which is in its ninth year of an economic 
recession.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leonard Sternbach, Administration for 
Children and Families, 50 U.N. Plaza, San Francisco, California 94102, 
Telephone: (415) 437-7671.

    Dated: September 1, 1999.
Janet S. Hartnett,
Deputy Director, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 99-23340 Filed 9-8-99; 8:45 am]
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