[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 63 (Friday, April 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18224-18225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-7648]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Announcement of Award

AGENCY: Children's Bureau, ACYF, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Announcement of the Award of a Single-Source Expansion 
Supplement Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, at Anne 
Arbor, MI, for the Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of 
Children in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep).

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    CFDA Number: 93.652.

    Legislative Authority: Adoption Opportunities Program, section 
203 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform 
Act of 1978, (Pub. L. 95-266), as amended by the Keeping Children 
and Families Safe Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108-36).

    Amount of Award: $250,000.
    Project Period: September 30, 2009 through September 29, 2014.

SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Children's 
Bureau (CB) announces the award of a single-source program expansion 
supplement grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan at Anne 
Arbor, MI, Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children 
in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep), to support additional and 
enhanced evaluation of the QIC-ChildRep research and demonstration 
projects.
    The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a cooperative 
agreement in FY 2009 as the result of a competition to establish the 
QIC-ChildRep. The purpose of the QIC-ChildRep is to improve the quality 
of legal representation for children and youth in child welfare cases 
so that States and Tribes achieve the best safety, permanency and well-
being outcomes for children and youth.
    Under the cooperative agreement, the QIC-ChildRep develops 
knowledge about effective strategies to provide competent and effective 
representation for children and youth in child welfare cases, promotes 
the certification of

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lawyers as specialist is child welfare, develops and implements child 
representation research and demonstration projects to promote evidence-
based, evidence-informed practice improvements and effective child 
representation, establishes and maintains a national information 
sharing network to disseminate information on promising practices; 
evaluates the impact of selected projects implementing the child 
representation models on outcomes for children and families who have 
competent and effective child representation, and identifies barriers 
and recommends need changes in laws, policies, procedures and/or 
practice. The supplemental funds will be used to provide additional 
training, technical assistance, and support to each research and 
demonstration site to fully implement and maintain rigorous on-site and 
cross-site evaluation plans.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gail Collins, Children's Bureau, 1250 
Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20047. Telephone: 202-205-8552, e-
mail: [email protected].

    Dated: March 23, 2011.
Bryan Samuels,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
[FR Doc. 2011-7648 Filed 3-31-11; 8:45 am]
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