[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 197 (Thursday, October 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59759-59760]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-20532]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Award 
Announcement

AGENCY: Administration on Children, Youth and Families, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Award announcement.

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SUMMARY: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and 
Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), herein announces the awarding of twenty-
eight urgent grant awards in order to enable seventeen Mentoring 
Children of Prisoner Programs and eleven Training and Technical 
Assistance providers to respond immediately to hurricane disaster 
evacuee needs in their States and local communities. The effects of 
Hurricane Katrina have disrupted the ability of the children whose 
parents are incarcerated to receive mentoring services due to their 
forced relocation throughout the nation. As a result, FYSB's network of 
mentoring grantees and training and technical assistance providers are 
uniquely positioned to respond to the increase in the numbers of 
children of incarcerated parents arriving in their new communities. The 
following agencies are receiving grant funds for a twelve month project 
period: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Heart, Macon, Georgia, in the 
amount of $95,000; State of Alabama Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention 
Board, Montgomery, Alabama, in the amount of $50,000; YMCA of Greater 
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, in the amount of $50,000; Big 
Brothers Big Sisters of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, in the 
amount of $95,000; Family and Children's Agency, Inc., Norwalk, 
Connecticut, in the amount of $21,350; America on Track of Santa Ana, 
California in the amount of $95,000; Volunteers in Prevention, 
Probation and Prisons, Detroit,

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Michigan, in the amount of $95,000; Centerforce, Inc. of San Rafael, 
California in the amount of $63,170; Big Brothers Big sisters of Boone 
County, Columbia, Missouri, in the amount of $95,000; Big Brothers Big 
Sisters of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, in the amount of $95,000; 
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education, Providence, Rhode Island, in the 
amount of $13,900; Mississippi Gulf Coast YMCA, Ocean Springs, 
Mississippi, in the amount of $99,553; Families Under Urban and Social 
Attacks, Houston, Texas, in the amount of $56,250; Big Buddy Program, 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the amount of $90,000; Big Brothers Big 
Sisters of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, in the amount of $95,000; Big Brothers 
Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, in the amount of 
$95,000; Pima Prevention Partnership, Tucson, Arizona, in the amount of 
$33,936; The University of Oklahoma National Resource Center for Youth 
Services, Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the amount of $700,000; Mid-Atlantic 
Network of Youth and Family Services, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 
amount of $100,000; Youth Network Council, Chicago, Illinois, in the 
amount of $100,000; Southeastern Network of Youth and Family Services, 
Bonita Springs, Florida, in the amount of $100,000; Empire State 
Coalition of Youth and Family Services, New York, New York, in the 
amount of $100,000; Northwest Network of Runaway and Youth Services, 
Seattle, Washington, in the amount of $100,000; Western States Youth 
Services Network, Petaluma, California, in the amount of $100,000; New 
England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services, Burlington, 
Vermont, in the amount of $100,000; Southwest Network of Youth 
Services, Austin, Texas, in the amount of $100,000; Mountain Plains 
Network for Youth, Bismarck, North Dakota, in the amount of $100,000; 
MINK Network of Runaway and Homeless Youth Services, Lenexa, Kansas, in 
the amount of $65,000.
    The seventeen Mentoring Children of Prisoners Programs will be 
responsible for reconnecting or establishing new mentoring 
relationships with evacuated children of incarcerated persons in their 
new communities. In addition to the seventeen Mentoring Children of 
Prisoners Programs being funded, the Family and Youth Services Bureau 
is funding eleven Training and Technical Assistance providers that will 
provide specialized technical assistance to the Mentoring Children of 
Prisoners Program grantees in their respective regions. The eleven 
Training and Technical Assistance Providers are well positioned to 
assist the seventeen Mentoring Children of Prisoners Programs in 
identifying children of incarcerated persons who are new to a 
community, developing a plan to provide them with mentoring support and 
coordinating services with other programs, Federal staff and their 
contractors.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Curtis O. Porter, Director, Youth 
Development Division, Family and Youth Services Bureau, 330 C Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Phone: 202-205-8102.

    Dated: October 6, 2005.
Joan E. Ohl,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
[FR Doc. 05-20532 Filed 10-12-05; 8:45 am]
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