[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55403-55404]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18847]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of Refugee Resettlement


Grant to United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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: $194,000.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a noncompetitive single source 
program expansion supplement to an ongoing competitive award is being 
made to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 
response to an unsolicited application. The application is not within 
the scope of any existing or expected to be issued program announcement 
for the Fiscal Year 2006. USCCB's application is expected to address 
issues critical to the development and implementation of marriage 
education programs for refugees by opening three new program sites.
    In September of 2003, ORR awarded USCCB a grant of $1,000,000,000 
to develop a Refugee Family Enrichment program which included technical 
assistance to subgrantees. Over the past two years, USCCB has 
established an effective program in sites that have successfully 
prepared thousands of refugee families for the challenges they will 
face during resettlement. Because other Refugee Marriage Enrichment 
grantees are primarily regional in scope, we believe USCCB is uniquely 
suited to effectively implement this supplemental award. USCCB has 
affiliates across the country and has no physical or

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programmatic limitations regarding which ethnic groups they can serve. 
We believe that by allowing them to increase the number of sites, that 
it would be a cost-effective way of helping more refugees develop the 
skills that help their marriages succeed and give their children a 
better chance of success in the U.S. Without it, these sites might 
struggle to provide refugee clients with the programs they need in 
order to achieve self-sufficiency.
    The proposed project period is 9/30/2005-9/29/2006.
    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)).

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: September 15, 2005.
Nguyen Van Hanh,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. 05-18847 Filed 9-20-05; 8:45 am]
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