(G) activities designed to help parents be-
come full partners in the education of their chil-
dren. 
(2) Ascertaining what health and developmental 
services the family receives and working with these 
providers to eliminate gaps in service by offering an-
nual health, vision, hearing, and developmental 
screening for children from birth to entry into kin-
dergarten, when needed. 
(3) Providing referrals for participating eligible 
families with English language learners, as needed, 
to additional resources available in the community, 
such as center-based early education programs, child 
care services, health or mental health services, fam-
ily literacy programs, employment agencies, social 
services, and child care resource and referral agen-
cies. 
(4) Offering group meetings (at program dis-
cretion), on not less frequently than a monthly basis, 
for eligible families with English language learners 
that— 
(A) further enhance the information, ac-
tivities, and skill-building addressed during 
home visitation;
(B) offer opportunities for parents to meet 
with and support each other; and 
(C) address challenges facing eligible fami-
lies with English language learners. 
(5) Providing training and technical assistance 
to early childhood home visitation and early child-
hood care and education staff relating to— 
(A) effective service to eligible families 
with English language learners, including skills 
to address challenges facing English language 
learners; 
(B) effective methods of implementing par-
ent education, conducting home visiting, and 
promoting quality early childhood development, 
with sensitivity to cultural variations in par-
enting norms and attitudes toward formal sup-
port services; 
(C) the relationship of health and well- 
being of pregnant women to prenatal and early 
child development; 
(D) early childhood development with re-
spect to children from birth until entry into kin-
dergarten;
(E) methods to help parents promote 
emergent literacy in their children from birth 
until entry into kindergarten; 
(F) implementing strategies for helping eli-
gible families with English language learners 
coping with a crisis; 
(G) recruiting, supervising, and retaining 
qualified staff; 
(H) increasing services for underserved eli-
gible families with English language learners; 
(I) methods to help parents effectively re-
spond to their children’s needs and behaviors; 
and 
(J) implementation of ongoing program 
quality improvement and evaluation of activities 
and outcomes. 
(6) Coordinating existing programs of early 
childhood home visitation in order to effectively and 
efficiently meet the needs of more eligible families 
with English language learners. 
(g) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Each applicant 
that receives a grant under this section to carry out a pro-
gram shall submit an annual report to the Secretary re-
garding the progress of such program in addressing the
purposes of this Act. Such report shall include, at a min-
imum, a description of— 
(1) actual service delivery provided under the 
grant including— 
(A) program characteristics including de-
scriptive information on the service model used 
and actual program performance; 
(B) provider characteristics including staff 
qualifications, work experience, and demo-
graphic characteristics; 
(C) 
recipient 
characteristics 
including 
number, demographic characteristics, and fam-
ily retention; and 
(D) an estimate of annual program imple-
mentation costs; 
(2) recipient outcomes that are consistent with 
program goals including, where appropriate given 
the program being evaluated— 
(A) parental practices; 
(B) child health and development indica-
tors; 
(C) child maltreatment indicators 
(D) school readiness indicators; and 
(E) links to community services;
(3) the research-based instruction, materials, 
and activities being used in the activities funded 
under the grant; and 
(4) the effectiveness of the training and ongoing 
professional development provided— 
(A) to staff supported under the grant; 
and 
(B) to the broader early childhood commu-
nity. 
(h) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds pro-
vided under this section shall be used to supplement, and 
not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for 
carrying out the activities described in this section. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$50,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2006 through 
2008. 
SEC. 8. TARGETED GRANTS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD HOME 
VISITATION FOR MILITARY FAMILIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, in col-
laboration with the Secretary of Education, shall make 
grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible applicants to en-
able such applicants to support and expand efforts to de-
liver services under quality programs of early childhood
home visitation to eligible families with a family member 
in the Armed Forces. 
(b) ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.—In this section, the term 
‘‘eligible applicant’’ means any of the following: 
(1) A local educational agency that receives 
payments under title VIII of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 
et seq.). 
(2) A school of the defense dependents’ edu-
cation system under the Defense Dependents’ Edu-
cation Act of 1978 (20 U.S.C. 921 et seq.). 
(3) A school established under section 2164 of 
title 10, United States Code. 
(4) A community-based organization serving 
families with a family member in the Armed Forces. 
(c) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible applicant that de-
sires to receive a grant under this section shall submit an 
application to the Secretary of Defense at such time, in 
such manner, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary of Defense may require. The application shall in-
clude a description of— 
(1) the results of a communitywide needs as-
sessment that describes— 
(A) 
community 
demographics 
dem-
onstrating the need for outreach and services to