The Michigan Public Health Institute is using this grant to implement an electronic childhood immunization information network. The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement is creating the Louisiana Children's Network, a secure statewide network for the exchange of information on children and children's issues. The network provides information about child abuse, runaways, child care facilities, gang related activities, and child predators to assist law enforcement and children's social service agencies to share knowledge. The Cuban and Haitian Entrant Resettlement Program is a grant of the Justice Department which provides resettlement services to Cubans and Haitians who are allowed into the US for humanitarian reasons. The Resettlement program aids children by helping families to rebuild more easily with transitional housing and child care services for refugees.
Family reunification is provided to children unaccompanied to the United States by their parents.
The Abandoned Infants program funds projects such as Best Beginnings in New York city which identifies pregnant substance abusing women in order to intensely engage them in social services in hopes of preventing infant abandonment. Infant abandonment has become a particularly acute problem due to the spread of the AIDS virus. The program first seeks to assist children in residing with their natural families when possible. The AIAP sponsors respite care for families and foster families as well. The Assistance program funds grantees' research on abandonment prevention and identifying the needs of abandoned infants, particularly those with the AIDS virus.