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(1) augment law enforcement services and com-
munity policing efforts by providing accessible crisis
intervention services for children who are involved in
violent incidents, and training for law enforcement
officers in child development, family, and cultural is-
sues;
(2) identify children and families at high risk
for developing behavioral or emotional problems re-
sulting from exposure to community violence and pro-
vide mental health and other support services to such
children and families, including crisis intervention
for child witnesses and victims of violence;
(3) facilitate interaction between law enforce-
ment agencies, child and family service organizations,
local educational agencies, and other community
members for the purpose of building coalitions for the
prevention of community violence; and
(4) provide role models for high-risk children
and youth and promote conflict resolution training
for children and youth in local educational agencies.
SEC. 4804. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this title:
(1) CHILD
AND
FAMILY
SERVICE
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘‘child and family service organiza-
tion’’ means a public or private nonprofit entity
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(such as child guidance centers, child psychiatry or
child psychology departments of hospitals or univer-
sity medical centers, or community mental health
centers providing child and family services) that pro-
vides mental health services to children and families
and that meets nationally recognized guidelines (such
as guidelines prescribed for mental health centers and
for child welfare and family service agencies) with re-
spect to the services provided to children and families.
(2) COMMUNITY-BASED
POLICING.—The term
‘‘community-based policing’’ means a commitment
and an effort (within the confines of budget restric-
tions) made by a law enforcement agency to establish
or expand cooperative efforts between the police and
a community in order to increase police presence in
the community, including—
(A) developing innovative neighborhood-ori-
ented policing programs and community-based
crime-prevention programs; and
(B) creating decentralized police substations
throughout the community to encourage inter-
action and cooperation between the public and
law enforcement personnel on a local level, in-
cluding the permanent assignment of officers to
a specific neighborhood or substation.
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(3) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.—The term
‘‘law enforcement agency’’ means an entity that serves
a specific community and has the routine responsibil-
ity of policing the activities of such community.
SEC. 4805. GRANTS AUTHORIZED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT
GRANTS.—The Attorney
General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, and where appropriate the Sec-
retary of Education, shall, subject to availability of
appropriations, award grants to law enforcement
agencies determined to be eligible under section 4806
for the establishment of law enforcement and child
and family services partnership programs to carry
out activities described in section 4806.
(2) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants described in
paragraph (1), the Attorney General shall give prior-
ity to a law enforcement agency that—
(A) is engaged in community-based polic-
ing; and
(B) intends to target such agency’s pro-
grams at disadvantaged communities.
(b) GRANT AMOUNT.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—A grant awarded under this
section shall be of sufficient size and scope to ade-
quately support all anticipated activities.
(2) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Attorney General
may award additional grant amounts for the
purpose of enabling a law enforcement agency
(as described in section 4806(a)(1)) to provide
mentoring or conflict resolution services.
(B) SPECIAL RULES.—
(i) PRIORITY
FOR
MENTORING
SERV-
ICES.—In awarding additional grant funds
for the provision of mentoring services
under subparagraph (A), the Attorney Gen-
eral shall give priority to a law enforcement
agency (as described in section 4806(a)(1))
that demonstrates commitments from a
broad spectrum of community groups to
participate in mentoring programs.
(ii) 
CONFLICT
RESOLUTION
SERV-
ICES.—In awarding additional grant funds
for the provision of conflict resolution serv-
ices under subparagraph (A), the Attorney
General may not award grant funds to a
law enforcement agency (as described in sec-
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tion 4806(a)(1)) unless such agency dem-
onstrates a commitment from the local edu-
cational agency to provide conflict resolu-
tion programs in the schools in participa-
tion with such agency.
(c) FEDERAL SHARE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of a grant
made under this section may not exceed—
(A) with respect to the first fiscal year, 80
percent of the total costs of the projects described
in the application submitted under section 4806
for such fiscal year;
(B) with respect to the second fiscal year,
70 percent of the total costs of the projects de-
scribed in the application submitted under sec-
tion 4806 for such fiscal year; and
(C) with respect to the third fiscal year, 60
percent of the total costs of the projects described
in the application submitted under section 4806
for such fiscal year.
(2) IN-KIND
CONTRIBUTIONS.—The Attorney
General shall accept the value of in-kind contributions
made by the grant recipient as a part or all of the
non-Federal share of grants.
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(d) GRANT DURATION.—A grant awarded under this
title shall be for a period of not less than 3 years.
SEC. 4806. APPLICATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible for a grant under this
section an entity shall—
(1) be a law enforcement agency that has entered
into a partnership with a child and family service or-
ganization to carry out a program under this title;
and
(2) prepare and submit to the Attorney General
an application in such form, at such time, and in ac-
cordance with such procedures, as the Attorney Gen-
eral shall establish.
(b) ASSURANCES.—Each application submitted under
subsection (a) shall provide the following assurances:
(1) There is a partnership established between
the law enforcement agency and a child and family
service organization.
(2) The management at the highest level of the
law enforcement agency and the child and family
service organization agrees to the establishment of
such partnership, and ensures that such agency and
such organization of such partnership will cooperate
in carrying out the program.
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(3) In developing the program, the applicant has
coordinated with other segments of the community to
ensure that the partnership efforts complement exist-
ing community anti-violence efforts.
(4) Programs established from funds received
under grants awarded under this title will do the fol-
lowing:
(A) Be collaborative in nature, with respect
to organizing and providing the necessary serv-
ices to children and families.
(B) Provide response to crisis situations 24
hours a day.
(C) Provide confidentiality.
(D) Be able to provide adequate resources
for training of law enforcement officers and for
support of professional consultation services for
children and families, including professionals li-
censed to provide child and family evaluations
and treatment.
(E) Be able to respond to community needs
in a manner reflecting sensitivity to the cultural
diversity of that community.
(5) The partnership will provide the following
program components:
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(A) 24-hour consultation service that in-
cludes a team of child guidance professionals and
specially trained law enforcement officers to re-
spond to incidents where a child has been a per-
petrator, a witness, or a victim of violence. Serv-
ices by child guidance professionals may include
in-home assessments, expedited referrals for
treatment, treatment in a community where re-
sources are not already available, consultations
with parents and teachers, and on-the-spot crisis
intervention.
(B) Training for law enforcement officers
that includes instruction by child and family
service organizations in the basic principles of
human behavior, child psychology, and family
systems. All training will be interactive and
jointly taught by law enforcement officers and
child guidance professionals, in order to make
use of real-life examples drawn from officers’ ex-
perience in the field.
(C) Weekly case conferences by the team of
child guidance professionals and law enforcement
officers described in subparagraph (A).
(D) Community activities for children and
families that are designed jointly by the law en-
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forcement and child and family services partner-
ship, including conflict resolution training pro-
grams for children and youth, after-school activ-
ity and neighborhood recreation programs, and
parent support groups co-led by child guidance
and law enforcement professionals.
(6) The partnership will provide local matching
funds in accordance with the Federal share require-
ments under section 4805(c).
(7) The applicant will submit to the Attorney
General, for each fiscal year for which a grant is re-
ceived, a report in accordance with uniform stand-
ards prescribed by the Attorney General.
(c) ADDITIONAL ASSURANCES FOR MENTORING AND
CONFLICT RESOLUTION SERVICES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each application submitted
under subsection (a) for additional funding for the
provision of mentoring or conflict resolution services
under section 4805(b)(2) shall provide assurances de-
scribed in paragraph (2) or (3), whichever is applica-
ble.
(2) MENTORING.—With respect to the provision
of mentoring services, an applicant shall provide as-
surances that the partnership of the applicant and the
child and family service organization will—
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(A) provide formal mentoring programs
that will include mentors such as police officers,
child and family services staff, and community
and business leaders provided through a partner-
ship with corporations, universities, labor orga-
nizations, nonprofit entities (such as professional
societies) or government agencies;
(B) recruit mentors who are representative
of the cultural mix of the community such men-
tors serve;
(C) provide ongoing support services to
mentors through the partnership, including a
framework for understanding the issues such
mentors may encounter in working with youth
from deprived environments and ongoing sup-
port groups to provide mentors an opportunity
to discuss the problems encountered in working
with children;
(D) provide practical work experience and,
to the extent possible, permanent career opportu-
nities to older youth; and
(E) collaborate, when possible, with elemen-
tary and secondary schools, universities, corpora-
tions, labor organizations, or government agen-
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cies with respect to matters relating to the part-
nership’s mentoring program.
(3) CONFLICT RESOLUTION.—With respect to the
provision of conflict resolution services, an applicant
shall provide an assurance that the child and family
service organization and the law enforcement agency
partnership, in collaboration with the local edu-
cational agency (hereafter referred to in this subpara-
graph as the ‘‘LEA’’) will support the LEA in the de-
velopment and implementation of conflict resolution
programs. The support provided to the LEA in the
preceding sentence shall be tailored to the needs and
resources of the local school district, and may include
providing assistance to an ongoing conflict resolution
program operated by such LEA, developing curricula
for such a program in cooperation with the LEA, and
providing such a program to an LEA.
SEC. 4807. TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
The Attorney General shall provide training and tech-
nical assistance to grantees and child and family service
organization with which such grantees have formed a part-
nership.
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SEC. 4808. EVALUATION AND REPORTS.
(a) EVALUATION.—The Attorney General shall conduct
evaluations to determine the effectiveness of the programs
funded under this title.
(b) SUBMISSION OF REPORTS AND EVALUATIONS.—
(1) INTERIM.—Not later than December 31,
1995, the Attorney General shall prepare and submit
to the appropriate committees of Congress an interim
progress report based on information reported by the
grantees and the results (as of the date of the submis-
sion of such report) of the evaluation conducted under
subsection (a).
(2) FINAL.—Not later than December 31, 1998,
the Attorney General shall prepare and submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a review and
summary of the results of the evaluation conducted
under subsection (a).
SEC. 4809. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this title, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums
as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995
through 1998, of which not more than 10 percent shall be
used for the mentoring and conflict resolution activities de-
scribed in section 4806(c).
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TITLE XLIX—NATIONAL COMMU-
NITY 
ECONOMIC 
PARTNER-
SHIP
SEC. 4901. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘National Community
Economic Partnership Act of 1993’’.
Subtitle A—Community Economic
Partnership Investment Funds
SEC. 4911. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this subtitle to increase private
investment in distressed local communities and to build and
expand the capacity of local institutions to better serve the
economic needs of local residents through the provision of
financial and technical assistance to community develop-
ment corporations.
SEC. 4912. PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE.
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services (hereafter referred to in this title as the
‘‘Secretary’’) is authorized, in accordance with this subtitle,
to provide nonrefundable lines of credit to community devel-
opment corporations for the establishment, maintenance or
expansion of revolving loan funds to be utilized to finance
projects intended to provide business and employment op-
portunities for low-income, unemployed, or underemployed
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individuals and to improve the quality of life in urban and
rural areas.
(b) REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS.—
(1) COMPETITIVE
ASSESSMENT
OF
APPLICA-
TIONS.—In providing assistance under subsection (a),
the Secretary shall establish and implement a com-
petitive process for the solicitation and consideration
of applications from eligible entities for lines of credit
for the capitalization of revolving funds.
(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a line of credit under this subtitle an applicant
shall—
(A) be a community development corpora-
tion;
(B) prepare and submit an application to
the Secretary that shall include a strategic in-
vestment plan that identifies and describes the
economic characteristics of the target area to be
served, the types of business to be assisted and
the impact of such assistance on low-income, un-
deremployed, and unemployed individuals in the
target area;
(C) demonstrate previous experience in the
development of low-income housing or commu-
nity or business development projects in a low-
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income community and provide a record of
achievement with respect to such projects; and
(D) have secured one or more commitments
from local sources for contributions (either in
cash or in kind, letters of credit or letters of com-
mitment) in an amount that is at least equal to
the amount requested in the application submit-
ted under subparagraph (B).
(3) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding the provisions
of paragraph (2)(D), the Secretary may reduce local
contributions to not less than 25 percent of the
amount of the line of credit requested by the commu-
nity development corporation if the Secretary deter-
mines such to be appropriate in accordance with sec-
tion 4916.
SEC. 4913. APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In evaluating applications submit-
ted under section 4912(b)(2)(B), the Secretary shall ensure
that—
(1) the residents of the target area to be served
(as identified under the strategic development plan)
would have an income that is less than the median
income for the area (as determined by the Secretary);
(2) the applicant community development cor-
poration possesses the technical and managerial capa-
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bility necessary to administer a revolving loan fund
and has past experience in the development and man-
agement of housing, community and economic devel-
opment programs;
(3) the applicant community development cor-
poration has provided sufficient evidence of the exist-
ence of good working relationships with—
(A) local businesses and financial institu-
tions, as well as with the community the cor-
poration proposes to serve; and
(B) local and regional job training pro-
grams;
(4) the applicant community development cor-
poration will target job opportunities that arise from
revolving loan fund investments under this subtitle so
that 75 percent of the jobs retained or created under
such investments are provided to—
(A) individuals with—
(i) incomes that do not exceed the Fed-
eral poverty line; or
(ii) incomes that do not exceed 80 per-
cent of the median income of the area;
(B) individuals who are unemployed or un-
deremployed;
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(C) individuals who are participating or
have participated in job training programs au-
thorized under the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) or the Family Support
Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–485);
(D) individuals whose jobs may be retained
as a result of the provision of financing available
under this subtitle; or
(E) individuals who have historically been
underrepresented in the local economy; and
(5) a representative cross section of applicants
are approved, including large and small community
development corporations, urban and rural commu-
nity development corporations and community devel-
opment corporations representing diverse populations.
(b) PRIORITY.—In determining which application to
approve under this subtitle the Secretary shall give priority
to those applicants proposing to serve a target area—
(1) with a median income that does not exceed
80 percent of the median for the area (as determined
by the Secretary); and
(2) with a high rate of unemployment, as deter-
mined by the Secretary or in which the population
loss is at least 7 percent from April 1, 1980, to April
1, 1990, as reported by the Bureau of the Census.