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Application Requirements

The applicant must:

1. Provide a statement of what is

known about the problems that

children/youth face when separated

from incarcerated parents.

2. Develop a project design that meets

the goals and objectives stated above,

including methodology and

deliverables. Include a workplan on

how each task will be developed and

implemented.

3. Describe the strengths of each

proposed agency that will form the

Resource Center.

4. Provide a management plan that

includes key staff, the amount of time

spent by key staff, the tasks each key

staff will perform, a timeline for the first

year and a proposed timeline for Years

2 and 3. Explain how the Resource

Center will work with NIC.

5. Provide a budget and budget

narrative for the first year and proposed

budgets for Years 2 and 3. Include in the

budget all expenses related to the public

awareness campaign, training and

technical assistance for awardees,

Advisory Group meetings, and outcome

evaluations.

6. Applications are limited to 25

typed, double spaced pages using a 12

point font, not including letters of

support, resumes, other supporting

documents and SF–424 forms. Provide 6

copies of the application, including one

that is not bound. One bound copy must

be signed in blue ink by the agency

administrator or chief executive officer.

Authority: Public Law 93–415.

Funds Available

One award will be made for up to $1

million for a 36 month project. In

addition to private and non profit

agencies, educational institutions are

encouraged to apply. At this time, there

are no plans for additional funding in

the future.

Deadline for Receipt of Applications

Applications must be received at the

NIC offices by 4 p.m. EDT on August 2,

2001. They should be addressed to:

Director, National Institute of

Corrections, 320 First Street, NW, Room

5007, Washington, DC 20534. Hand

delivered applications may be brought

to 500 First Street, NW, Washington, DC

20534. The front desk will call

Germaine Jefferson or Bobbi Tinsley at

202–307–3106 ext. 0 for pickup.

Addresses and Further Information

Requests for the application kit,

which consists of copies of this

announcement and the required

application forms, can be downloaded

from the NIC website at http://

www.nicic.org Click on ‘‘Cooperative

Agreements.’’

All technical and/or programmatic

questions concerning this

announcement should be directed to

Mary Whitaker at the above address or

by calling 800–995–6423, extension

40378, or 202–514–0378 or by e-mail via

mwhitaker@bop.gov

All specific questions regarding the

application process should be directed

to Judy Evens, Cooperative Agreement

Control Office, National Institute of

Corrections, 320 First Street, NW, Room

507, Washington, DC 20534 or by

calling 800–995–6423, ext. 44222 or

202–307–3106, extension 44222 or by email via jevens@bop.gov

Eligible Applicants: Applicants are

private and not for profit agencies.

Educational institutions are also

encouraged to apply.

Review Considerations: Applications

will be reviewed by a three- to fivemember team using a peer review

process.

Number of Awards: One (1).

NIC Application Number: NIC

Application Number: 01K60. This

number should appear as a reference

line in the cover letter and also in box

11 of Standard Form 424. This number

must also appear on the outside of the

package in which the application arrives

at NIC.

(The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number: 16.602.)

This project is not subject to the provisions

of Executive Order 12372.

Dated: June 18, 2001.

Morris L. Thigpen,

Director, National Institute of Corrections.

[FR Doc. 01–15688 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

National Institute of Corrections

Solicitation for a Cooperative

Agreement—Planning Awards for

Children of Prisoners

AGENCY: National Institute of

Corrections, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative

Agreement.

SUMMARY: This is one of five

solicitations to address planning issues

for children who have experienced

parental incarceration. Three (3), 18-

month planning awards, each for up to

$100,000 each will be made to three

private and/or nonprofit agencies in

three different jurisdictions. The

purpose of this solicitation is to assist

these jurisdictions to develop a

comprehensive plan for the delivery of

services to a clearly identified target

population of children/youth who have

been traumatized or damaged as a result

of parental incarceration. The goal of the

planning project is to enhance

opportunities for positive life

experiences and outcomes for children/

youth who have suffered parental

separation as a result of incarceration.

These awards will be given to those

agencies that create or build on an

existing collaborative planning process.

All applications must include the

appropriate Federal, State and/or local

agency/agencies.

Background

The Department of Justice (DOJ),

National Institute of Corrections (NIC),

announces the availability of funds for

fiscal year 2001 for five (5) solicitations

to fund projects for children of

incarcerated or formerly incarcerated

parents. Congress appropriated $4

million to NIC ‘‘to work with

cooperative agreements to fund private

sector or not for profit groups that have

effective, tested programs to help

children of prisoners’’. These

cooperative agreements may be for up to

three (3) years.

To prepare for this solicitation, NIC

convened a Children of Prisoners

planning meeting, inviting federal and

state government, association, academic

and private provider representatives.

The goals of the two-day meeting were

to: (1) Identify the problems and issues

that children of prisoners or former

prisoners face that put them at risk of

potential future delinquency (2) identify

the problems and greatest needs of

incarcerated parents/caretakers of these

children; (3) identify and describe

evidence-based and promising

approaches to support these children

and prevent their future delinquency;

and (4) describe and prioritize how the

newly appropriated funds can best

address these issues.

Based on this meeting, NIC staff is

announcing the following five (5)

solicitations:

1. Resource Center—Up to 41 million

for a 36 month project will be awarded

to one (1) organization or group (joint

applications are encouraged) to provide

training and technical assistance,

develop a plan for a public awareness

program, support and manage an

advisory group, and develop and

conduct, as appropriate, process and

outcome evaluations with awardees.

2. Planning Awards—(This

announcement) Three (3), 18-month

planning awards, of up to $100,000 each

will be made to three private or non

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profit agencies in three different

jurisdictions. The purpose of this

solicitation is to assist three (3)

jurisdictions to develop a

comprehensive plan for the delivery of

services to a clearly identified target

population of children/youth who have

been traumatized or damaged as a result

of parental incarceration. These awards

will be given to agencies that create or

build on an existing collaborative

planning process. All applications must

include the appropriate Federal, State

and/or local agency/agencies.

3. Awards to Communities with High

Crime and High Incarceration Rates—

Up to $1.675 million will be awarded to

three (3) to five (5) private and/or non

profit agencies working with children

living in communities with high crime

and incarceration rates. The purpose is

to develop three-year demonstration

programs. Up to one year will be spent

planning the programs, the second and

third years will focus on program

implementation and evaluation.

4. Children of Parents in Prison—

Three-year demonstration awards to two

(2) agencies that work with children of

parents held in State or Federal prisons.

A total of $500,000 will be available for

these awards. One award will for

$30,000 per year and one will be for

$135,000 a year. Planning must be an

integral part of the application.

5. Children of Parents in Jail—Threeyear demonstration awards to two (2)

agencies that work with children of

parents in jail. a total of $500,000 will

be available for these awards. One

award will be for $30,000 per year and

one will be for $135,000 a year.

Planning must be an integral part of the

application.

Applicants may apply to more than

one solicitation.

Information on this population:

According to Senate Report 106–404

from FY2001 DOJ appropriations bill,

‘‘* * * children of prisoners are six

times more likely than other children to

be incarcerated at some point in their

lives * * *’’. Yet, little research and few

programs have targeted children of

offenders.

The number of men and women

confined in prisons and jails has

increased in the 1990s from just under

1.2 million to 1.9 million. The Bureau

of Justice Statistics in its August 2000

bulletin, ‘‘Incarcerated Parents and

Their Children’’, states that 721,500

State and Federal inmates are parents to

nearly 1.5 million children under the

age of 18, an increase of 500,000

children in the past 8 years. This means

that 2.1% of all children in the United

States have a parent in State or Federal

prison. The number of children of

parents in detention is not known, but

half of all youth in custody have a

parent or close relative who has been in

jail.

Prior to prison admission, 64% of the

women and 44% of the men lived with

their children. Once incarcerated, 90%

of the men indicated that at least one

child lived with his/her mother; 28% of

the women said the father was the

child’s care giver. One in five of these

children was under 5 years of age, and

the majority were less than 10 years old.

Black children were nearly9 times more

likely to have a parent in prison than

white children, and Hispanic children

were 3 times more likely than white

children to have an imprisoned parent.

While the number of fathers in prison

far outweighs the number of mothers, it

is mostly the mothers who were primary

care givers before incarceration. When

fathers are incarcerated, the care giver

usually becomes the mother; when the

mother is confined, the care giver often

becomes the child’s grandparent or

other relative. Three of four parents in

State prisons reported a prior conviction

compared to one out of three in Federal

prisons. Many children, then, have

experienced more than one parental

separation.

Parental arrest and confinement lead

to stress, trauma, stigmatization and

separation problems for the children.

These problems are coupled with

existing problems that include poverty,

violence, parental substance abuse, high

crime environments, intrafamily abuse,

abuse and neglect, multiple care givers

and/or prior separations. As a result,

these children often exhibit a broad

variety of behavioral, emotional, health

and educational problems that are

compounded by the pain of separation.

Denise Johnston from the Center for

Children of Incarcerated parents in

California found that early childhood

(between the ages of 2–6) may be the

most damaging time for parent-child

separation as the child remembers the

trauma but cannot adjust to it without

help. If these children do not receive

assistance or cannot process the

separation for themselves, their

behaviors can become increasingly

maladaptive as they grow up, leading to

strong negative feelings about the

criminal justice and welfare systems,

delinquency, poor school performance

and other antisocial behaviors.

There are a handful of programs

around the country that work with these

children. The Child Welfare League of

America has published, ‘‘Working with

Children and Families Separated by

Incarceration’’, a handbook for child

welfare agencies and staff. There is also

a major initiative funded by the U.S.

Department of Health and Human

Services, the goals of which are to: (1)

Develop a research and practice baseline

on the effects of incarceration on

prisoners and their children, families

and communities; (2) document the

intersection of populations within the

criminal justice system and populations

served by HHS programs; (3) determine

unmet health and human services needs

of offenders and their families left

behind in the community; and (4)

ensure that HHS takes into account the

effects of incarceration on the children

and families of inmates. HHS has

commissioned a literature review and

nine papers to explore what is known

and knowable about these issues.

Statement of Principles: NIC requires

that the planning process will adhere to

the following principles:

1. Be child focused as the goal is to

help the child become stable and self

assured with a strong, positive sense of

self.

2. Explain which stage(s) of child

development will be addressed.

Programs will focus on infancy, early or

middle childhood, and/or early or late

adolescence.

3. Ensure that programs have a sound

theoretical basis.

4. Incorporate what is known about

the crisis issues around separation of

the child from his/her parent.

5. Improve the child/family

relationship, where appropriate, by

creating a family-friendly planning

environment and subsequent program

delivery.

6. Add to the current limited body of

research on these children.

7. Include a ‘‘collaborative’’ planning

group that will continue into the service

delivery phase. The ‘‘collaborative’’ will

include the lead agency, appropriate

governmental agencies, and others as

appropriate, such as private providers,

advocacy groups, academic institutions,

and public schools.

Resource Assistance: Once an award

has been made for the Resource Center

solicitation, awardees will receive

training and technical assistance, as

needed, from Resource Center staff. The

length and scope of this assistance will

depend on the awardees’ specific

interests. The Resource Center will also

provide assistance in developing and

implementing the outcome evaluations

that will accompany each cooperative

agreement and will budget for this

assistance. The Resource Center will be

responsible for developing a data

collection plan for the outcome

evaluations. Awardees of this

solicitation will be responsible for

collecting the data. Awardees will also

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develop and conduct their process

evaluation.

Goals and Objectives of This

Solicitation: The purpose of these

cooperative agreements is to assist three

(3) jurisdictions to develop a

comprehensive plan for delivery of

services to a clearly identified target

population of children/youth who have

been traumatized or damaged as a result

of parental incarceration. The goal of the

planning project is to enhance

opportunities for positive life

experiences and outcomes for children/

youth who have suffered parental

separation as a result of incarceration.

The objectives are to:

1. Undertake a collaborative planning

process with the relevant government

and private/community agencies which

will result in:

a. The development of a

comprehensive plan for the delivery of

services to children of incarcerated or

formerly incarcerated parents and

b. A final report to NIC that describes

the results of the process evaluation and

provides a summary of the

comprehensive plan, the

implementation timeliness and

proposed funding strategies.

2. Demonstrate how additional funds

will be leveraged to enhance the

planning project and ensure its

continuation into the program delivery

stage.

3. Identify one or more child

development stages on which the

project will focus.

4. Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in

planning and program design.

Application Requirements: The

applicant must:

1. Identify the specific agencies that

will be part of the planning

collaborative project. Provide the name,

position and level of responsibility for

each proposed member of the planning

group. Explain the reasons for each

agency’s inclusion. Include a letter of

support from each government agency

and from at least half of the remaining

agencies. Each agency’s representative

should have sufficient authority to make

decisions for his/her respective agency.

2. Provide a statement of the problems

children/youth of incarcerated parents

face in your jurisdiction.

3. Identify the goals and objectives of

the planning process.

4. Describe the project methodology,

including the planning collaborative’s

proposed tasks, resource needs, and the

roles and responsibilities of the lead

agency and collaborative agencies.

5. Describe how implementation

funds will be secured, including any

commitment letters that have been

obtained during the proposal

development process.

6. Describe the goals of the process

evaluation and your approach to

developing and conducting the

evaluation.

7. Provide a budget summary and

budget narrative for the full 18 months,

including budgeting for the process

evaluation.

8. Prepare a final report that includes,

but is not limited to, the process

evaluation, proposed project design,

implementation timeline and funding

strategies.

9. Applications are limited to 25

double spaced pages using a 12 point

font, not including letters of support,

resumes, other supporting documents

and SF–424 forms. Provide 6 copies of

the application, including one that is

not bound. One unbound copy must be

signed in blue ink by the agency

administrator or chief executive officer.

Authority: Public Law 93–415.

Funds Available: There is funding for

three (3) cooperative agreement

planning projects. Applicant agencies

may be any private or non-profit

organization working in close

collaboration with the appropriate

government agencies. Each award will

be up to $100,000 for an 18 month

project. Applicants are encouraged to

submit joint applications with other

agencies in their jurisdictions. At this

time, there are no plans for additional

funding in the future.

Deadline for Receipt of Applications:

Applications must be received at the

NIC offices by 4 p.m. EDT on August 2,

2001. They should be addressed to:

Director, National Institute of

Corrections, 320 First Street, NW, Room

5007, Washington, DC 20534. Hand

delivered applications may be brought

to 500 First Street, NW, Washington, DC

20534. The front desk will call

Germaine Jefferson or Bobbi Tinsley at

202–307–3106 ext. 0 for pickup.

Addresses and Further Information:

Requests for the application kit, which

consists of copies of this announcement

and the required forms, should be

downloaded from the NIC website at

http://www.nicic.org Click on

‘‘Cooperative Agreements’’.

All technical and/or programmatic

questions concerning this

announcement should be directed to

Mary Whitaker at the above address or

by calling 800–995–6423, extension

40378, or 202–514–0378 or by e-mail via

mwhitaker@bop.gov

All specific questions regarding the

application process should be directed

to Judy Evans, Cooperative Agreement

Control Office, National Institute of

Corrections, 320 First Street, NW, Room

5007, Washington, DC 20534 or by

calling 800–995–6423, ext. 44222 or

202–307–3106, extension 44222 or by email via jevens@bop.gov

Eligible Applicants: Applicants are

private and not for profit agencies.

Public corrections and human services

(government) agencies are not eligible to

apply for these funds. Appropriate

government agencies, e.g., juvenile

detention centers and probation

agencies, jails, prisons, community

based facilities, and private juvenile and

adult correctional facilities, must be

included in the planning process and

must submit letters of support.

Review Considerations: Applications

will be reviewed by a three- to fivemember team using a peer review

process.

Number of Awards: Three (3).

NIC Application Number: NIC

application number: 01K61. This

number should appear as a reference

line in the cover letter and also in box

11 of Standard Form 424. It must also

appear on the outside of the package in

which the application arrives at NIC.

Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance Number: 16.602. This

application is not subject to Executive

Order 12372.

Dated: June 18, 2001.

Morris L. Thigpen,

Director, National Institute of Corrections.

[FR Doc. 01–15689 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–36–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

National Institute of Corrections

Solicitation for a Cooperative

Agreement—Children of Prisoners

From High Crime/Incarceration

Communities

AGENCY: National Institute of

Corrections, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative

Agreement.

SUMMARY: This is one of five

solicitations to address issues of

children who have experienced parental

incarceration. Up to $1.675 million will

be awarded to three (3) to five (5)

private and/or non profit agencies for 36

months. The purpose is to develop

three-year demonstration programs to

enhance opportunities for positive life

experiences and outcomes for children/

youth living in communities which

have high crime and/or incarceration

rates. Up to one year may be spent

planning the programs, the second and