[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 116 (Friday, June 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50592-50593]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13143]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Community Living


Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the Expanding the 
National Capacity for Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed (PCTI) Care: 
Services and Supports for Holocaust Survivors and Other Older Adults 
With a History of Trauma and Their Family Caregivers Program

AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the 
intent to award a single-source supplement to the current cooperative 
agreement held by the Jewish Federations of North America for the 
project ``Expanding the National Capacity for Person-Centered, Trauma-
Informed (PCTI) Care: Services and Supports for Holocaust Survivors and 
Other Older Adults with a History of Trauma and Their Family 
Caregivers'' program. The purpose of this program is to advance the 
development and expansion of PCTI supportive services for Holocaust 
survivors living in the U.S. Additionally, the project is advancing the 
capacity of the broader aging services network to deliver services of 
this type to any older adult with a history of trauma and their family 
caregivers.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or comments 
regarding this program supplement, contact Greg Link, U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, 
Administration on Aging, Office of Supportive and Caregiver Services: 
telephone (202) 795-7386; email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The goals of the program are as follows:
    1. Increase the number and type of innovations in PCTI care for 
Holocaust survivors, older adults with a history of trauma, and their 
family caregivers, and
    2. Expand the capacity of the Aging Network to provide PCTI care to 
the populations it serves.
    The administrative supplement for FY 2024 will be in the amount of 
$3,454,500, bringing the total award for FY 2023 to $8,389,500. The 
supplement will provide sufficient resources to enable the grantee and 
their partners, JFNA, to accomplish the following:
     Continue to address the significant needs of Holocaust 
survivors living in the United States and other older adults with 
histories of trauma and their family caregivers by:
    [cir] Further expanding Innovations Program, deepening its focus on 
existing programs to make them more PCTI, and expand the program to 
additional communities;
    [cir] Continued expansion of the Critical Supports Initiative to 
federation agencies and aging services providers together to identify 
and address the most critical needs and allocate additional resources 
accordingly to those needs. This component of the program allows each 
participating community to determine how to best allocate the resources 
available to meet the needs and form new partnerships to prevent 
emergencies; and
    [cir] Growing the National Networks program to scale PCTI 
approaches to multiple locations/cities.
    [cir] For all of these programs, the supplement will increase 
outreach, evaluation, technical assistance, and

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sub-grantee monitoring and financial oversight activities.
     Continued expansion and support of the grantee staff to 
solidify the infrastructure and framework to realize Congress' intent 
for the establishment and operation of a national resource center to 
provide training and technical assistance to agencies in the aging 
network delivering services to older individuals experiencing the long-
term and adverse consequences of trauma, as described in section 
411(14) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended. Doing so will 
enable JFNA to expand the reach and effectiveness of this project by 
broadening the technical assistance and capacity building activities in 
the following ways:
    [cir] Growth and partnerships are essential for PCTI approaches to 
take root. The supplement will be used to increase the ways in which 
this can be accomplished, including re-launching an Aging and Trauma 
Workgroup and an Educational Advisory Committee, ensuring the voices of 
Holocaust survivors, other older adults with histories of trauma and 
their family caregivers are represented; enabling the grantee to 
develop and implement an action plan to work with foundations.
    [cir] Thought leadership in the field of PCTI care is greatly 
needed for it to take root as standard practice in the aging services 
network. The supplement will: (1) permit the expansion of the grantee's 
PCTI training program; (2) provide the resources necessary to fund the 
development of a family caregiving roadmap to support PCTI approaches 
to implementing the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers; and 
(3) further develop and expand the field and practice of PCTI 
evaluation approaches and practices already begun under this project, 
but on a limited basis.
    [cir] Sustainability and efficiency are key to any demonstration 
project. The supplement will enable JFNA to explore technology 
enhancements to streamline the sub-grant management process, bring on 
additional staff to manage expanded expectations and work, including 
growth, and enhance program oversight, monitoring, evaluation, and 
additional activities proportional to the increased funding and 
expectations resulting from this supplement.
    Program Name: Expanding the National Capacity for Person-Centered, 
Trauma-Informed (PCTI) Care: Services and Supports for Holocaust 
Survivors and Other Older Adults with a History of Trauma and Their 
Family Caregivers.
    Recipient: The Jewish Federations of North America.
    Period of Performance: The supplement award will be issued for the 
third year of the five-year project period of September 1, 2020 through 
August 31, 2025.
    Total Award Amount: $8,389,500 in FY 2024.
    Award Type: Cooperative Agreement Supplement.
    Statutory Authority: The Older Americans Act (OAA) of 1965, as 
amended, Public Law 109-365--title 4, section 411.
    Basis for Award: The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) is 
currently funded to carry out the objectives of the project entitled 
``Expanding the National Capacity for Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed 
(PCTI) Care: Services and Supports for Holocaust Survivors and Other 
Older Adults with a History of Trauma and Their Family Caregivers'' for 
the period of September 1, 2020 through August 31, 2025. Since project 
implementation began in late 2020, the grantee has accomplished a great 
deal. This supplement will enable the grantee to carry their work even 
further, serving more Holocaust survivors, other older adults with 
histories of trauma, family caregivers and to train more professionals 
in the principles of PCTI. The additional funding will not be used to 
begin new projects or activities.
    The JFNA is uniquely positioned to complete the work called for 
under this project. JFNA's partners on this project include the Network 
of Jewish Human Services Agencies, KAVOD, the Conference on Material 
Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference), USAging, the Health 
Foundation for Western and Central New York, LeadingAge, Habitat for 
Humanity International, University of Buffalo School of Social Work 
Institute on Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care, National Council on Aging, 
Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice, and SAGE represent a 
broad cross-section of the aging services networks with equities in 
this area.
    Establishing an entirely new grant project at this time would be 
potentially disruptive to the current work already well under way. More 
importantly, the Holocaust survivors and other older adults currently 
being served by this project could be negatively impacted by a service 
disruption, thus posing the risk of re-traumatization and further 
negative impacts on health and wellbeing. If this supplement is not 
provided, the project would be less able to address the significant 
unmet health and social support needs of additional Holocaust survivors 
and other older adults with histories of trauma. Similarly, the project 
would be unable to expand its current technical assistance and training 
efforts in PCTI concepts and approaches, let alone reach beyond 
traditional providers of services to this population to train more 
``mainstream'' providers of aging services. Finally, providing this 
supplement to JFNA will allow for the greater realization of Congress' 
intent in section 411(14)(A) of the Older Americans Act, as amended, 
which calls for the establishment of a national resource center to 
provide training, technical assistance and sub-grants in this area.

    Dated: June 11, 2024.
Alison Barkoff,
Principal Deputy Administrator for the Administration for Community 
Living, performing the delegable duties of the Administrator and the 
Assistant Secretary for Aging.
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