[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4034-4035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01336]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Announcement of the Award a Single-Source Program Expansion 
Supplement Grant to BCFS Health and Human Services in San Antonio, TX

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of 
Refugee Resettlement (ORR), announces the award of a single-source 
program expansion supplement grant to BCFS Health and Human Services 
(BCFS) in San Antonio, TX, under the Unaccompanied Children's (UC) 
Program to support home study services.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of 
Refugee Resettlement (ORR), announces the award of a single-source 
program expansion supplement grant for $500,000. The expansion 
supplement grant will support the need to increase home study capacity 
to expedite

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completion of home studies for approximately 400 UCs.
    BCFS provides nationwide coverage of home study services to 
children in the care and custody of ORR, as well as services to include 
counseling, case management, and additional support services to the 
family or to the UC and their sponsor when a UC is released from ORR's 
care and custody.

DATES: Supplemental award funds will support activities from September 
29, 2015 through September 30, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jallyn Sualog, Director, Division of 
Children's Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 901 D Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20447. Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: While this number of referrals to the 
Unaccompanied Children Program in FY 2015 is well below the total 
referrals from FY 2014, ORR has seen a change to recent referral 
trends, including a steady August referral rate and an increasing 
occupancy rate of UC in care. This increase in referrals has also 
generated a correlating increase in the need for home study services. 
The supplemental awards will support and expand home study services for 
UC to facilitate their release from ORR custody.
    ORR has specific requirements for the provision of services. Award 
recipients must have the infrastructure, licensing, experience, and 
appropriate level of trained staff to meet the service requirements and 
the urgent need for expansion of services. The program's ability to 
avoid a buildup of children waiting, in Border Patrol stations, for 
placement in shelters, can only be accommodated through the expansion 
of the existing program and its services through the supplemental 
award.

    Statutory Authority:  This program is authorized by--
    (A) Section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which in 
March 2003, transferred responsibility for the care and custody of 
Unaccompanied Alien Children from the Commissioner of the former 
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to the Director of ORR 
of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
    (B) The Flores Settlement Agreement, Case No. CV85-4544RJK (C. 
D. Cal. 1996), as well as the William Wilberforce Trafficking 
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-457), 
which authorizes post release services under certain conditions to 
eligible children. All programs must comply with the Flores 
Settlement Agreement, Case No. CV85-4544-RJK (C.D. Cal. 1996), 
pertinent regulations and ORR policies and procedures.

    CFDA Number: 93.676

Christopher Beach,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Division of Grants Policy, Office of 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-01336 Filed 1-22-16; 8:45 am]
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