cation, and/or employment training under the super-
vision of highly trained staff. 
(6) Residential treatment programs operated by 
Boys and Girls Home and Family Services, Inc. pro-
vide effective therapeutic and educational programs 
for youth suffering from serious mental, psycho-
logical, behavioral, and emotional problems that neg-
atively affect their education and employability. Boys 
and Girls Home and Family Services, Inc.’s mission 
of improving the lives of youth and families includes 
providing youth with professional treatment and spe-
cialized education and training so that youth can re-
turn to their communities, and avoiding long term 
institutionalization while holding youth responsible 
and accountable. Such residential treatment pro-
grams offer the potential to help numerous youth 
throughout the country. 
(7) Lesser levels of care for youth with serious 
mental, psychological, behavioral, and emotional 
problems who require residential treatment can re-
sult in multiple failed placements until the proper 
level of advanced treatment is provided. It is esti-
mated that more than one-third of first-time en-
trants into residential treatment programs have had 
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11 or more prior placements, with almost 40 percent 
coming from locked placements. 
(8) Since its founding in 1892, Boys and Girls 
Home and Family Services, Inc. has proven to be a 
trusted and successful provider of a full spectrum of 
services for youth and families, in collaboration with 
Federal, State, and local agencies, courts, schools, 
law enforcement, employment training agencies and 
employers, faith-based groups, and other community 
based organizations. A not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) or-
ganization, Boys and Girls Home and Family Serv-
ices, Inc. has unique experience in operating small, 
medium, and large facilities and programs to serve 
youth and families, particularly in rural areas. The 
organization has demonstrated how to maximize cost 
efficiencies, and to pass those cost savings on to 
other providers so as to sustain the viability of col-
laborative services. The capability of Boys and Girls 
Home and Family Services, Inc. to sustain the high-
est level of youth services, residential treatment, pro-
vides a solid foundation for all lesser levels of care 
for youth. 
(9) The lengthy detention and excessive, mul-
tiple placement of youth with serious mental, psy-
chological, behavioral, and emotional difficulties who 
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are waiting for treatment is a serious problem for 
the Nation. The costs to society of detention and ex-
cessive, multiple placement of youth in need of resi-
dential treatment are exorbitant. Efficient and expe-
rienced residential treatment programs are needed to 
offer effective treatment, education, and training op-
portunities for youth, with the hope that they may 
one day be reintegrated into their communities. 
(10) Boys and Girls Home and Family Serv-
ices, Inc., offering services nationwide, is a leading 
children, youth, and family service agency. The 
agency has a national reputation for excellence and 
unique capabilities and experiences that assist com-
munities in designing and operating residential 
treatment programs to serve youth with serious 
mental, psychological, behavioral, and emotional dif-
ficulties. With adequate funding from the public and 
private sectors, Boys and Girls Home and Family 
Services, Inc. can assist other agencies and commu-
nities in implementing residential treatment pro-
grams to offer treatment, specialized education and 
training, and hope for youth. The result will be an 
improved ability for youth with serious mental, psy-
chological, behavioral, and emotional difficulties to 
obtain education and employment training in order 
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to lead fulfilling lives and contribute to society and 
the economy. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are as fol-
lows: 
(1) To further the important objective of pro-
viding exceptional services for youth with serious 
mental, psychological, behavioral, and emotional dif-
ficulties, through residential treatment programs, 
specialized education and employment training, and 
other appropriate levels of treatment, so that these 
youth may become productive citizens to ensure a 
bright future for themselves and their families. 
(2) To assist Boys and Girls Home and Family 
Services, Inc. with the costs of establishing excep-
tional residential treatment and specialized edu-
cation and employment training programs to address 
the needs of youth with serious mental, psycho-
logical, behavioral, and emotional difficulties, their 
families and communities. 
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS HOME AND FAM-
ILY SERVICES, INC. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.—Using such funds as 
may be appropriated pursuant to the authorization of ap-
propriations in subsection (c), the Secretary of Education 
and the Secretary of Labor shall make grants to Boys and 
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Girls Home and Family Services, Inc., to assist with the 
costs of establishing programs and facilities for residential 
treatment, specialized education, and employment training 
and other appropriate levels of service to youth with seri-
ous mental, psychological, behavioral, and emotional prob-
lems, their families, and communities. 
(b) GRANT
REQUIREMENTS.—To receive grants 
under subsection (a), Boys and Girls Home and Family 
Services, Inc. shall submit to either the Secretary of Edu-
cation or the Secretary of Labor, or to both Secretaries, 
a proposal for the use of the grant funds, which shall re-
late to establishing programs for residential treatment, 
specialized education, and employment training and other 
appropriate levels of service to youth who suffer from emo-
tional and behavioral difficulties, their families, and com-
munities, with the objective of improving the lives of 
youth, their families, and communities. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Edu-
cation and the Secretary of Labor $15,000,000 to make 
grants under this section. Amounts so appropriated shall 
remain available until expended. 
Æ 
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