[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 30, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 51357]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17239]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Office of Refugee Resettlement; Grant to Hebrew Immigrant Aid 
Society

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

ACTION: Award Announcement.

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    CFDA#: The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number for 
this program is 93.576. The title is the Refugee Family Enrichment 
Program.
    Amount of Award: $200,000.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a noncompetitive single source 
program expansion supplement to an ongoing competitive award is being 
made to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) to provide additional 
training and technical assistance to organizations implementing Refugee 
Marriage Enrichment projects. The application is not within the scope 
of any existing or expected to be issued program announcement for the 
Fiscal Year 2006. This application is expected to address issues 
critical to the development and implementation of marriage education 
programs for refugees by providing valuable on-site training and 
technical assistance to grantees and sub-grantees that offer marital 
communication training to refugee couples.
    In September of 2003, ORR awarded HIAS a grant of $200,000 to 
develop a Refugee Family Enrichment program which included technical 
assistance to subgrantees. Because of their success in the development 
of their marriage enrichment program, in 2004 HIAS was awarded a 
noncompetitive single source program expansion supplement to an ongoing 
competitive award to expand its Technical Assistance Services Program 
to Refugee Family Enrichment project sites specified by ORR. HIAS has 
since provided over 600 hours of technical assistance to project sites 
operated by organizations across the country. Their technical 
assistance primarily supports the work of small Mutual Assistance 
Associations, and without it, these agencies might struggle to provide 
refugee clients with the programming they need in order to achieve self 
sufficiency. The proposed project period is September 30, 2005--
September 29, 2006.
    Technical assistance to support grantees in developing better 
approaches to the delivery of services provided to refugees is 
authorized by section 412(c)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1522(c)(1)). ACF received one non-substantive comment 
from a private citizen which did not impact this grant project 
specifically.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Administration for Children and 
Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Loren Bussert--(202) 401-4732, 
[email protected].

    Dated: August 24, 2005.
Nguyen Van Hanh,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. 05-17239 Filed 8-29-05; 8:45 am]
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