[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 211 (Wednesday, October 31, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65895-65896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26743]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: 93.508]
Announcement of the Award of Four Single-Source Program Expansion
Supplement Grants To Support Activities Associated With the Tribal
Early Learning Initiative
AGENCY: Office of Child Care, ACF, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of award of four single-source program expansion
supplement grants to Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting (MIECHV) grantees to support their activities as participants
in the Tribal Early Learning Initiative.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child
Care, announces the award of single-source program expansion supplement
grants to four grantees in the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program to support their participation
in the Tribal Early Learning Initiative. Each of the following grantees
is receiving a supplement in the amount of $15,750.
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Grantee Location
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma............. Durant, OK
Pueblo of San Felipe................... San Felipe, NM
Confederated Tribes of Salish and Pablo, MT
Kootenai.
White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians... White Earth, MN
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The program expansion supplement awards will support expanded
services to identify and analyze systems that will improve
effectiveness and efficiencies across early childhood programs. The
grantees will share action plans to improve outcomes and developing
peer learning relationships.
DATES: September 29, 2012-September 30, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Moushumi Beltangady, Office of the
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development, 901 D
Street SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 260-3613; Email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The program expansion supplemental grants
will support the effective identification and analysis of actual and
potential systems issues faced by tribes receiving all three ACF early
learning grants: Head Start/Early Head Start, Tribal Child Care, and
Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV).
The program expansion supplements will support coordination and
collaboration activities such as, identifying obstacles that could
block efforts to build and maintain partnerships, piloting more
effective coordination of Tribal Early Learning Programs, and
development of alternative interventions and strategies in line with
tribal community values, traditions, and priorities. The Tribal Early
Learning Initiative is expected to accomplish the following:
Identify and analyze systems issues, including obstacles
that could block efforts to build and maintain partnerships in tribal
communities, to fully and effectively coordinate Tribal Head Start/
Early Head Start, Tribal Child Care, and Tribal MIECHV programs (Tribal
Early Learning Programs), and to develop a menu of alternative
interventions and strategies in line with tribal community values,
traditions, and priorities.
Develop tribally-driven goals and concrete objectives in
each local tribal community for building effective and efficient early
childhood systems and improved outcomes for young children and families
including strategies to support parent, family, and community
engagement.
Develop and carry out concrete community plans for
supporting and strengthening cooperation, coordination, and resource
sharing and leveraging among programs that support young children and
families in the tribal community.
Share plans of action, barriers and challenges,
opportunities and solutions, and the results of action plans with other
tribal communities in an effort to further develop peer learning
relationships.
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The Office of Head Start will separately announce the award four
single-source program expansion supplement grants of up to $15,750 to
the same grantees to support Head Start-related activities as part of
the Tribal Early Learning Initiative.
Statutory Authority: Section 511(h)(2)(A) of Title V of the
Social Security Act, as added by Section 2951 of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. 111-148, also known as
the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Shannon L. Rudisill,
Director, Office of Child Care.
[FR Doc. 2012-26743 Filed 10-30-12; 8:45 am]
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