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Adoption, and Family Services Act of 1988 (as
such section was in effect on the day before the
date of enactment of this Act); and
‘‘(C) the incidence of any such cases relat-
ed to alcohol or drug abuse;
‘‘(3) disseminate information related to data
collected and reported by States pursuant to section
103;
‘‘(4) compile, analyze, and publish a summary
of the research conducted under section 201; and
‘‘(5) solicit public comment on the components
of such clearinghouse.
‘‘SEC. 203. GRANTS FOR DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.
‘‘(a) AWARDING OF GENERAL GRANTS.—The Sec-
retary may make grants to, and enter into contracts with,
public and nonprofit private agencies or organizations (or
combinations of such agencies or organizations) for the
purpose of developing, implementing, and operating time
limited, demonstration programs and projects for the fol-
lowing purposes:
‘‘(1) INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.—
The Secretary may award grants to public agencies
that demonstrate innovation in responding to reports
of child abuse and neglect including programs of col-
laborative partnerships between the State child pro-
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tective service agency, community social service
agencies and family support programs, schools,
churches and synagogues, and other community
agencies to allow for the establishment of a triage
system that—
‘‘(A) accepts, screens and assesses reports
received to determine which such reports re-
quire an intensive intervention and which re-
quire voluntary referral to another agency, pro-
gram or project;
‘‘(B) provides, either directly or through
referral, a variety of community-linked services
to assist families in preventing child abuse and
neglect; and
‘‘(C) provides further investigation and in-
tensive intervention where the child’s safety is
in jeopardy.
‘‘(2) 
KINSHIP
CARE
PROGRAMS
AND
PROJECTS.—The Secretary may award grants to
public entities to assist such entities in developing or
implementing procedures using adult relatives as the
preferred placement for children removed from their
home, where such relatives are determined to be ca-
pable of providing a safe nurturing environment for
the child and where, to the maximum extent prac-
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ticable, such relatives comply with relevant State
child protection standards.
‘‘(3) ADOPTION
OPPORTUNITIES.—The Sec-
retary may award grants to public entities to assist
such entities in developing or implementing pro-
grams to expand opportunities for the adoption of
children with special needs.
‘‘(4) FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS.—The Sec-
retary may award grants to public or nonprofit pri-
vate entities to provide for the establishment of fam-
ily resource programs and support services that—
‘‘(A) develop, expand, and enhance state-
wide networks of community-based, prevention-
focused centers, programs, or services that pro-
vide comprehensive support for families;
‘‘(B) promote the development of parental
competencies and capacities in order to increase
family stability;
‘‘(C) support the additional needs of fami-
lies with children with disabilities;
‘‘(D) foster the development of a contin-
uum of preventive services for children and
families through State and community-based
collaborations and partnerships (both public
and private); and
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‘‘(E) maximize funding for the financing,
planning, community mobilization, collabora-
tion, assessment, information and referral,
startup, training and technical assistance, infor-
mation management, reporting, and evaluation
costs for establishing, operating, or expanding a
statewide network of community-based, preven-
tion-focused family resource and support serv-
ices.
‘‘(5) OTHER
INNOVATIVE
PROGRAMS.—The
Secretary may award grants to public or private
nonprofit organizations to assist such entities in de-
veloping or implementing innovative programs and
projects that show promise of preventing and treat-
ing cases of child abuse and neglect (such as Par-
ents Anonymous).
‘‘(b) GRANTS
FOR
ABANDONED
INFANT
PRO-
GRAMS.—The Secretary may award grants to public and
nonprofit private entities to assist such entities in develop-
ing or implementing procedures—
‘‘(1) to prevent the abandonment of infants and
young children, including the provision of services to
members of the natural family for any condition that
increases the probability of abandonment of an in-
fant or young child;
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‘‘(2) to identify and address the needs of aban-
doned infants and young children;
‘‘(3) to assist abandoned infants and young
children to reside with their natural families or in
foster care, as appropriate;
‘‘(4) to recruit, train, and retain foster families
for abandoned infants and young children;
‘‘(5) to carry out residential care programs for
abandoned infants and young children who are un-
able to reside with their families or to be placed in
foster care;
‘‘(6) to carry out programs of respite care for
families and foster families of infants and young
children; and
‘‘(7) to recruit and train health and social serv-
ices personnel to work with families, foster care fam-
ilies, and residential care programs for abandoned
infants and young children.
‘‘(c) EVALUATION.—In making grants for demonstra-
tion projects under this section, the Secretary shall require
all such projects to be evaluated for their effectiveness.
Funding for such evaluations shall be provided either as
a stated percentage of a demonstration grant or as a sepa-
rate grant entered into by the Secretary for the purpose
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of evaluating a particular demonstration project or group
of projects.
‘‘SEC. 204. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
‘‘(a) CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide
technical assistance under this title to States to as-
sist such States in planning, improving, developing,
and carrying out programs and activities relating to
the prevention, assessment identification, and treat-
ment of child abuse and neglect.
‘‘(2) EVALUATION.—Technical assistance pro-
vided under paragraph (1) may include an evalua-
tion or identification of—
‘‘(A) various methods and procedures for
the investigation, assessment, and prosecution
of child physical and sexual abuse cases;
‘‘(B) ways to mitigate psychological trau-
ma to the child victim; and
‘‘(C) effective programs carried out by the
States under this Act.
‘‘(b) ADOPTION
OPPORTUNITIES.—The Secretary
shall provide, directly or by grant to or contract with pub-
lic or private nonprofit agencies or organizations—
‘‘(1) technical assistance and resource and re-
ferral information to assist State or local govern-