coordination of education, health, and social services
for in school and out of school youth.’’.
SEC. 403. EVALUATION AND REPORT TO CONGRESS.
(a) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall pre-
pare and submit to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress a biannual report concerning the implementation of
this Act. Such report shall include a summary of the data
provided in the annual reports submitted to the Secretary
under section 304, and an assessment of the progress
achieved by grantees under this Act in stabilizing and im-
proving participant outcomes and reducing adverse con-
sequences of adolescent risk taking behaviors and the ab-
sence of necessary services in the communities served
under this Act.
(b) EVALUATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 54 months
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall, through the awarding of grants and
contracts to independent entities with expertise in
adolescent health and youth development, provide an
evaluation of the programs funded under this Act to
the appropriate committees of Congress. A rep-
resentative subset of grantees under each title shall
be selected with an equitable geographic distribution,
and urban and rural representation. The evaluation
process shall commence not later than 12 months
after the date of enactment of this Act, with data
to be collected under subparagraphs (B), (C), (D),
and (E), at yearly intervals. The evaluation report
shall be conducted by individuals who are not di-
rectly involved in the administration of the programs
funded under this Act. The final evaluation report
shall include—
(A) the program goals and objectives iden-
tified in the comprehensive services plans of
grantees, and the degree to which they reflect
the unmet needs and service gaps of the appli-
cant area as delineated in the grant application;
(B) what services were provided by grant-
ees under this Act, who the recipients of the
services were, and an assessment of whether
high risk youth actually received services pro-
vided by grantees, including youth who are out
of school, runaway or homeless, and adolescent
parents;
(C) the impact of a comprehensive and co-
ordinated service delivery system on the base-
line health and education indices identified in
the comprehensive services plan of the grantee,
and an identification of other relevant factors
affecting the health and education outcomes
among target youth in the service delivery area
during the grant period;
(D) the expansion of services achieved in
the service delivery area, both through en-
hanced planning and coordination of services
and the provision of new service capacity;
(E) the degree to which increased utiliza-
tion of services has paralleled service expansion;
(F) the process by which broad based
input was achieved in the formulation of com-
prehensive services plans on an ongoing basis;
(G) the methods by which coordination of
services was undertaken administratively among
agencies and providers, the degree to which
service coordination was achieved, and the bar-
riers that impeded the coordination of services;
and
(H) the sustainability of local partnerships,
consortia, and State comprehensive service de-
livery networks at the completion of the Federal
grant period.
(2) APPROPRIATIONS.—The Secretary shall use
amounts made available under section 2711 of the