‘‘(C) to manage a competitive grant award 
process to select local communities wishing to 
establish a Court Team. 
‘‘(c) GRANT DURATION.—The grant awarded under 
this part shall be— 
‘‘(1) for a period of 5 years; and 
‘‘(2) renewable at the discretion of the Adminis-
trator. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An early childhood develop-
ment organization desiring to receive the grant de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall submit an application 
to the Administrator, at such time, in such manner, 
and containing such information as the Adminis-
trator may require. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—Such application shall— 
‘‘(A) describe the expertise of the organiza-
tion and its collaborative partner in infant and 
toddler development and in judicial training, in-
cluding any experience relevant to their ability 
to oversee the implementation of local Court 
Teams, and their capacity to provide assistance 
to local Court Teams; 
‘‘(B) include a detailed plan describing 
how the organization and its collaborative part-
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ner will establish and maintain the National 
Court Teams Resource Center, and how they 
will carry out the activities of such Center, as 
described in section 273; 
‘‘(C) explain the process that will be used 
to select local Court Teams to receive assistance 
under this part; 
‘‘(D) demonstrate the ability of the organi-
zation and its collaborative partner to meet all 
the selection criteria, including— 
‘‘(i) special expertise in the develop-
mental needs of children 3 years of age 
and younger; 
‘‘(ii) a demonstrated record of pro-
viding resources to parents and other care-
givers regarding the healthy growth and 
development of their children; 
‘‘(iii) a demonstrated record of pro-
viding resources for practitioners in the 
fields of child development, early child care 
and education, family support, pediatrics, 
child welfare, juvenile and family courts, 
and mental health; 
‘‘(iv) extensive knowledge about how 
exposure to violence (including domestic vi-
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olence, community violence, and child mal-
treatment) influences the growth and de-
velopment of infants and toddlers; 
‘‘(v) a documented history of collabo-
ration with public and private sector 
groups working to improve the lives of 
maltreated infants and toddlers, including 
collaboration with judges at the local and 
national level; 
‘‘(vi) the capacity to analyze child wel-
fare policy at the local, State, and national 
levels and to offer research-based solutions 
to the problems confronting child welfare 
systems across the country; and 
‘‘(vii) the ability to manage multiple 
complex national resource centers and re-
lated activities, including strategic plan-
ning, team building, infrastructure devel-
opment, training for multidisciplinary pro-
fessionals at all levels, materials develop-
ment for multiple audiences in a variety of 
formats, and conference planning and de-
livery at the local, State, regional, and na-
tional levels; and 
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‘‘(E) include any other information the Ad-
ministrator may require, including any assur-
ance required by the Administrator that the en-
tity, if selected, will give special consideration to 
applications that have a significant number of 
child welfare cases in the jurisdiction of the 
court over which the qualified judge presides in 
which substance abuse, and particularly meth-
amphetamine abuse, is involved. 
‘‘(e) SELECTION OF GRANTEE.—In considering grant 
applications under this part, the Administrator shall select 
the early childhood development organization working in 
collaboration with a judicial training organization that 
demonstrates— 
‘‘(1) the greatest ability to satisfy the criteria 
described in subsection (d)(4); and 
‘‘(2) the most extensive experience in address-
ing the needs of abused and maltreated infants and 
toddlers through training and technical assistance 
provided to judges, multidisciplinary professionals 
and community leaders. 
‘‘SEC. 273. NATIONAL COURT TEAMS FOR MALTREATED IN-
FANTS AND TODDLERS RESOURCE CENTER. 
‘‘(a) GENERAL
ACTIVITIES.—The national early 
childhood development organization working in collabora-
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tion with a judicial training organization that has received 
the grant authorized under section 272 shall establish and 
maintain a National Court Teams Resource Center, to 
carry out the following activities: 
‘‘(1) Develop and carry out a process for select-
ing local Court Teams to receive assistance under 
this part that shall include— 
‘‘(A) outreach to identify jurisdictions or 
communities wishing to establish Court Teams; 
‘‘(B) letters of commitment to participate 
in a Court Team project containing the items 
described in section 274(a); 
‘‘(C) a provision allowing for exceptions for 
alternative models of leadership to that de-
scribed in section 274(a) if such leadership 
would be more appropriate for meeting commu-
nity needs and the services of the Court Team 
are made available to local judges; and 
‘‘(D) in selecting jurisdictions to partici-
pate, ensuring diversity of geographic location, 
population density, and types of problems af-
fecting the child welfare population. 
‘‘(2) Conduct national meetings and training 
sessions for local Court Teams. 
‘‘(3) Develop a database that shall be— 
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