[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 207 (Thursday, October 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65195-65196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26302]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[CFDA Number 93.600]


Announcement of the Award of Four Single-Source Program Expansion 
Supplement Grants To Support Activities Associated With the Tribal 
Early Learning Initiative

AGENCY: Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, 
Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice of award of four single-source program expansion 
supplement grants to Head Start/Early Head Start American Indian and 
Alaska Native (AIAN) grantees to support their activities as 
participants in the Tribal Early Learning Initiative.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head 
Start, announces the award of single-source program expansion 
supplement grants to four grantees in the Head Start/Early Head Start 
American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) grantees to support their 
participation in the Tribal Early Learning Initiative. Each of the 
following grantees is receiving a supplement in the amount of $15,750.

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                Grantee                              Location
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.............  Durant, OK.
Pueblo of San Felipe...................  San Felipe, NM.
Confederated Tribes of Salish and        Pablo, MT.
 Kootenai.
White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians...  White Earth, MN.
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    The program expansion supplement awards will support expanded 
services to identify and analyze systems that will improve 
effectiveness and efficiencies across early childhood programs. The 
grantees will share action plans to improve outcomes and developing 
peer learning relationships.

DATES: September 29, 2012-September 30, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, Director, 
Office of Head Start, 1250 Maryland Ave SW., Washington, DC 20024. 
Telephone: 202-205-8573; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The program expansion supplemental grants 
will support the effective identification and analysis of actual and 
potential systems issues faced by tribes receiving all three ACF early 
learning grants: Head Start/Early Head Start, Tribal Child Care, and 
Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV). 
The program expansion supplements will support coordination and 
collaboration activities such as identifying obstacles that could block 
efforts to build and maintain partnerships, piloting more effective 
coordination of Tribal Early Learning Programs, and development of 
alternative interventions and strategies in line with tribal community 
values, traditions, and priorities. The Tribal Early Learning 
Initiative is expected to accomplish the following:
     Identify and analyze systems issues, including obstacles 
that could block efforts to build and maintain partnerships in tribal 
communities, to fully and effectively coordinate Tribal Head Start/
Early Head Start, Tribal Child Care, and Tribal MIECHV programs (Tribal 
Early Learning Programs), and to develop a menu of alternative 
interventions and strategies in line with tribal community values, 
traditions, and priorities.
     Develop tribally-driven goals and concrete objectives in 
each local tribal community for building effective and efficient early 
childhood systems and improved outcomes for young children and families 
including strategies to support parent, family, and community 
engagement.
     Develop and carry out concrete community plans for 
supporting and

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strengthening cooperation, coordination, and resource sharing and 
leveraging among programs that support young children and families in 
the tribal community
     Share plans of action, barriers and challenges, 
opportunities and solutions, and the results of action plans with other 
tribal communities in an effort to further develop peer learning 
relationships
    The Office of Child Care will separately announce the award of four 
single-source program expansion supplement grants of up to $15,750 to 
the same Tribal grantees to support Tribal MIECHV-related activities as 
part of the Tribal Early Learning Initiative.

    Statutory Authority:  Improving Head Start for School Readiness 
Act of 2007 (Pub.L. 110-134). Sections 642 (e)(3) and 648 of the 
Head Start Act, as amended by the Improving Head Start for School 
Readiness Act of 2007.

Yvette Sanchez Fuentes,
Director, Office of Head Start.
[FR Doc. 2012-26302 Filed 10-24-12; 8:45 am]
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