[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34649-34650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14839]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[CFDA Number: 93.092]


Announcement of the Award of Single-Source Expansion Supplement 
Grants to Seven Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative 
Strategies (PREIS) Grantees

AGENCY: Family and Youth Services Bureau, ACYF, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of the award of single-source expansion supplement 
grants to seven Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative 
Strategies (PREIS) grantees.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), 
Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth 
Services Bureau (FYSB), Division of Adolescent Development and Support 
(DADS), announces the award of single-source expansion supplement 
grants to seven PREIS grantees for the purpose of expanding retention 
and follow-up efforts for program participants. The funds will allow 
grantees to collect the increased data necessary to determine the 
program effectiveness and for the manualization of a validated 
curriculum and supporting documents.

DATES: The period of support under these supplements is September 30, 
2014, through September 29, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LeBretia White, Manager, Adolescent 
Pregnancy Prevention Program, Division of Adolescent Development and 
Support, Family and Youth Services Bureau, 1250 Maryland Avenue SW., 
Suite 800, Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: 202-205-9605; Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FY 2010, FYSB awarded 13 cooperative 
agreement grants under Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) OPHS/OAH/
TPP PREP Tier 2-2010. Under this FOA, a total of $9.7 million was made 
available on a competitive basis to implement and test innovative 
strategies.
    The supplemental funds will help the grantees increase retention 
and follow-up strategies for program participants. In turn, this will 
allow grantees to report significant program outcome data that will be 
integral to the evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented pregnancy 
prevention models used in grantee programming with populations that 
include youth in foster care and pregnant and parenting teens.

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    Seven PREIS grantees have requested supplemental funding awards. 
Their applications were assessed by a review panel for completeness and 
responsiveness in the categories of Objectives and Need for Assistance, 
Approach, and Budget and Budget Justification. The applications were 
assessed to have scored within a fundable range.
    Single-source program expansion supplement awards are made to the 
following PREIS grantees:

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                                                                                                Supplement award
            Grantee organization                            City                    State            amount
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Child and Family Resources, Inc.............  Tucson.........................              AZ            $32,314
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles..........  Los Angeles....................              CA            115,898
Cicatelli Associates Inc....................  New York.......................              NY            130,000
Demoiselle2Femme............................  Chicago........................              IL             55,959
Education Development Center, Inc...........  Newton.........................              MA             55,560
Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services............  Tucson.........................              AZ             29,000
The Village for Families & Children, Inc....  Hartford.......................              CT             33,235
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    Statutory Authority: Section 2953 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111-148, added Section 513 to 
Title V of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 713, 
authorizing the Personal Responsibility Education Program.

Mary M. Wayland,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Division of Grants Policy, Office of 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-14839 Filed 6-16-15; 8:45 am]
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