sive services plan that meets the requirements of
paragraph (3) and the assurances required under
paragraph (4).
(2) FORMULATION.—In formulating a com-
prehensive services plan under this subsection, a
consortia or State entity shall document the efforts
undertaken to obtain broad based community input
from teachers and other school personnel, health
providers including organized medicine, social serv-
ices providers including community-based organiza-
tions, and parents and at-risk youth in order to—
(A) maximize participation in the needs as-
sessment conducted by the entity;
(B) formulate a service plan that is com-
prehensive and reflective of the needs delineated
by the youth, families, and neighborhoods to be
served under the plan;
(C) build institutional support for the serv-
ices to be provided under the plan from the
staff and administration of all members of the
consortia and the support of parents and the
larger community; and
(D) 
encourage 
increased 
collaboration
among members of the consortia as well as a
broader range of providers to enhance the qual-
ity, availability and a variety of services avail-
able within the consortia.
(3) CONTENTS OF THE PLAN.—Each plan sub-
mitted under paragraph (1) shall include, with re-
spect to local consortia or those localities to be
served under a Statewide network—
(A) a description of the in-school and out-
of-school youth populations to which services
will be provided under the grant and an assess-
ment of their health and social services needs;
(B) an inventory of existing core services
described in subsection (a) that are being pro-
vided to such youth populations, including sub-
populations of youth with special needs;
(C) an identification of the unmet needs of
such youth populations, gaps in the system of
core services available, barriers to the utiliza-
tion of services by such youth, and barriers to
the integration of services including conflicting
regulatory requirements and eligibility stand-
ards;
(D) a description of the program goals and
objectives and intended outcomes, which may
include increased integration and utilization of
services by the intended youth populations, and
improved health and education, indicators for
service recipients relative to baseline community
assessment;
(E) a description of the manner in which
such data systems will be utilized to guide plan-
ning and to evaluate progress toward achieving
the program goals and objectives described in
subparagraph (D);
(F) a description of the means by which an
entity awarded a grant under this title will—
(i) utilize existing Federal, State, local
and other funding sources and reimburse-
ment mechanisms (including Medicaid and
other third party payors), received by the
entity or its members for the coordinated
delivery of core services; and
(ii) co-locate currently operating serv-
ices provided by the entity or its members
into a system of comprehensive health and
social services centers in order to maximize
the effectiveness of existing resources in
serving in-school and out-of-school youth;
(G) a description of the services that will
be directly provided to such youth populations
with funds provided under this Act as needed to
address unmet core service needs identified in
the comprehensive plan;
(H) a plan for the phased-in development
of comprehensive school-based and community-
based health and social services centers with
amounts received under this Act to achieve a
citywide, countywide, or Statewide service deliv-
ery network of both in-school and out-of-school
youth;
(I) a plan for the phased-in expansion of
services available through the entity by identify-
ing additional opportunities for collaboration
with providers offering services in addition to
the core services required under subsection (a)
which have been identified as needs of such
youth populations;
(J) a description of the process by which
program development, implementation, and
evaluation (including the criteria and decision-
making process that will be used in allocating
funds within the youth services center system)
will be carried out within the entity;
(K) an identification of the fiscal agent or
State agency administering the program and
the manner in which program funds received
under this section will be disbursed and mon-
itored; and
(L) a description of the strategy for secur-
ing the long-term financing necessary to con-
tinue to provide the services made available
through the entity after the termination of the
grant period.
(4) ASSURANCES.—An application submitted
under this subsection shall contain assurances
that—
(A) core services will be provided in a co-
ordinated manner to in-school and out-of-school
youth through a system of comprehensive serv-
ices centers providing ready access to the youth
and their families to be served;
(B) core services will be targeted to youth
populations and subpopulations identified in the
comprehensive plan and will be delivered in a
culturally sensitive and linguistically appro-
priate manner;
(C) amounts provided to the applicant
under this section will be used to coordinate ex-
isting services before such amounts are used to
provide directly the services;
(D) amounts provided to the applicant
under this section and used to deliver services
will be utilized in conformity with the unmet
needs as identified in the comprehensive plan of
the entity; and
(E) entities awarded grants under this title
will provide comprehensive services that extend
beyond traditional school or service hours, in-
cluding access to year round programs and pro-
grams that provide services in the evenings or
on weekends.
(c) TERM
OF
GRANTS
AND
ADMINISTRATIVE
COSTS.—
(1) TERM OF GRANTS.—Grants awarded under
this title shall be for a term of not less than 3, or
more than 5, years based on the ability of the grant-
ee to achieve the goals and objectives identified in
the entities application. The Secretary may provide
2 year extension awards to those grantees that, fol-
lowing the initial 3 year grant period, demonstrate
substantial progress in the integration of comprehen-
sive services for at-risk youth, including broad based
institutional support for collaboration from all mem-
bers of the consortia, and an improvement in the