[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22199-22200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-09074]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: 93.508]
Announcing the Award of Six Single-Source Expansion Supplement
Grants Under the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) Program
AGENCY: Office of Child Care, ACF, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of the award of six single-source program expansion
supplement grants to Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) grantees.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Child Care (OCC), Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) Program, announces the award of single-source
program expansion supplement grants to the Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, MT, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in
Siletz, OR, Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan in Sault Ste. Marie, MI,
Native American Health Center, Inc. in Oakland, CA, Red Cliff Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa in Bayfield, WI, and Riverside-San Bernardino
County Indian Health, Inc. in Banning, CA.
The Fiscal Year 2015 single-source program expansion supplement
grants will support the grantees' project activities as they continue
to implement their Tribal MIECHV programs and will allow for
opportunities for enhanced, or expanded, service delivery.
DATES: The period of support is July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 for
the Native American Health Center, Inc. and the Riverside-San
Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc., and, September 30, 2015 through
September 29, 2016 for Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Inter-Tribal Council of
Michigan, and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel Schumacher, Director, Office of
Child Care, 901 D Street SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: (202)
401-6984; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Tribal Maternal, Infant and Early
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, funded from a 3 percent set-
aside to the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Program, is designed to strengthen tribal capacity to support and
promote the health and well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native
(AIAN) families; expand the evidence base around home visiting in
tribal communities; and support and strengthen cooperation and linkages
between programs that service AIAN children and their families. Funds
under the Tribal MIECHV Program support Indian tribes, consortia of
tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to provide
high-quality, culturally relevant, voluntary, evidence-based home
visiting services to families in at-risk communities; conduct a needs
and readiness assessment of the at-risk community; engage in
collaborative planning and capacity building efforts to address
identified needs; establish, measure, and report on progress toward
meeting benchmark performance measures for participating children and
families; and conduct rigorous local evaluations to answer questions of
importance to tribal communities and examine the effectiveness of home
visiting programs with AIAN populations.
A single-source supplemental grant of $45,000 was awarded to the
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, MT, to support the
hire of an additional home visitor. A single-source supplemental grant
of $25,000 was awarded to Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in
Siletz, OR, to support their goal of providing needed services to
families with children aged 3 to 5 years old. A single-source
supplemental grant of $120,000 was awarded to Inter-Tribal Council of
Michigan in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, to support appropriate reflective
supervision for its home visitors and to expand services at a high
performing site where there is a waiting list. A single-source
supplemental grant of $50,000 was awarded to the Native American Health
Center, Inc. in Oakland, CA, to provide enhanced mental health support
to high-risk families and home visitors. A single-source supplemental
grant of $50,000 was awarded to the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa in Bayfield, WI, to support provision of reflective
supervision for program staff, including the development of culturally
appropriate strategies, and to support enhanced dissemination of
information about the community's home visiting program and its early
childhood system (e.g., digital storytelling). A single-source
supplemental grant of $45,000 was awarded to Riverside-San Bernardino
County Indian Health, Inc. in Banning, CA, to support the hire of an
additional home visitor.
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, and
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amended by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, Pub. L.
113-93.
Christopher Beach,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Division of Grants Policy, Office of
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-09074 Filed 4-20-15; 8:45 am]
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