[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 43616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18090]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Office of Disability
Employment Program, National Technical Assistance and Demonstration
Center on Preparing Youth With Disabilities for Employment
AGENCY: Office of Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor.
Announcement Type: New Notice of Availability of Funds and
Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for Cooperative Agreements.
The full announcement is posted on http://www.grants.gov.
Funding Opportunity Number: SGA 12-06.
Key Dates: The closing date for receipt of applications is August
17, 2012.
Funding Opportunity Description
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or Department), Office of
Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) announces the availability of
approximately $1.1 million to fund a cooperative agreement to manage
and operate its National Technical Assistance and Demonstration Center
on Preparing Youth with Disabilities for Employment (Center). The
Center will continue to build upon the work of ODEP's previously funded
youth technical assistance center, the National Collaborative on
Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Y).
The Center will provide technical assistance, training, and
information to Workforce Investment Act (WIA)-funded youth programs and
current and former DOL grantees to aid them in integrating evidence-
based effective practices for improving transition results for young
people with disabilities enrolled in these programs. The Center will
use the Guideposts for Success as a transition framework and recognize
that youth, families, educators, workforce professionals and other
stakeholders must work together to increase employment expectations for
youth with disabilities. The Center will build capacity within and
across both generic and disability-specific youth service delivery
systems to improve employment and post-secondary education outcomes for
youth with disabilities. To accomplish this goal the Center will focus
on the following three areas:
[ssquf] Career Exploration, Management and Planning: Providing
technical assistance around strategies to improve pathways to further
education and careers for youth with disabilities;
[ssquf] Youth Development and Leadership: Increasing the knowledge
and leadership skills of youth receiving services from a variety of
systems, enabling youth to become engaged stakeholders and skilled
contributors to youth serving systems;
[ssquf] Professional Development: Working to increase the capacity
of youth-serving systems to provide quality training to staff, which
will result in improved services and better outcomes for all youth,
including those with disabilities.
The Center will work in collaboration with Federal, state and local
agencies across multiple systems including education, workforce,
juvenile justice, foster care, transportation, mental health,
vocational rehabilitation and others on effective practices and other
issues related to the transition of youth. To improve outcomes for
youth ages 12 to 24, the Center will utilize social media and other
electronic tools to influence its target audience of youth as they
transition to adulthood and the people who support them, including
their peers, families, educators, workforce professionals, and
policymakers. The Center will maintain an accessible Web site
containing online resources and publications and will conduct trainings
both in person and electronically. The Center will conduct outreach and
establish and maintain effective working relationships and
collaborations with a broad range of entities with the goal of sharing
knowledge and promoting the adoption and implementation of policies and
effective practices that improve transition outcomes. The Center will
contribute to ODEP's annual performance measures through the
development of policies and effective practices, the dissemination of
this information, and the promotion of their adoption and
implementation.
Funding of up to $1.1 million will be awarded through a competitive
process for a 12-month period of performance, with the possibility of
up to 4 option years of funding depending on the availability of funds
and satisfactory performance.
This solicitation provides background information, describes the
application submission requirements, outlines the process that eligible
entities must use to apply for funds covered by this solicitation, and
outlines the evaluation criteria used as a basis for selecting the
grantee.
The full Solicitation for Grant Applications is posted on http://www.grants.gov under U.S. Department of Labor/ODEP. Applications
submitted through http://www.grants.gov or hard copy will be accepted.
If you need to speak to a person concerning these grants, you may
telephone Cassandra Mitchell at 202-693-4570 (not a toll-free number).
If you have issues regarding access to the http://www.grants.gov Web
site, you may telephone the Contact Center Phone at 1-800-518-4726.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 19th day of July 2012.
Cassandra R. Mitchell,
Grant Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-18090 Filed 7-24-12; 8:45 am]
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