[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 211 (Wednesday, October 31, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65895-65896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26743]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[CFDA Number: 93.508]


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 Child Care, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of award of four single-source program expansion 
supplement grants to Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home 
Visiting (MIECHV) 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 Child 
Care, announces the award of single-source program expansion supplement 
grants to four grantees in the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program 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: Moushumi Beltangady, Office of the 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development, 901 D 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 260-3613; 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 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.

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    The Office of Head Start will separately announce the award four 
single-source program expansion supplement grants of up to $15,750 to 
the same grantees to support Head Start-related activities as part of 
the Tribal Early Learning Initiative.

    Statutory Authority: Section 511(h)(2)(A) of Title V of the 
Social Security Act, as added by Section 2951 of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. 111-148, also known as 
the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Shannon L. Rudisill,
Director, Office of Child Care.
[FR Doc. 2012-26743 Filed 10-30-12; 8:45 am]
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