[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 20, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3147-3148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00886]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: 93.676]
Announcement of the Award a Single-Source Program Expansion
Supplement Grant to BCFS Health and Human Services in San Antonio, TX
AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, ACF, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of award of a single-source program expansion supplement
grant to BCFS Health and Human Services (BCFS) in San Antonio, TX.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Refugee Resettlement (ORR), announces the award of a single-source
program expansion supplement grant for $12,860,855 to BCFS Health and
Human Services (BCFS) in San Antonio, TX, under the Unaccompanied
Children's (UC) Program to support a program expansion supplement.
The expansion supplement grant will support the need to increase
shelter capacity to accommodate the increasing numbers of UCs being
referred by DHS. BCFS has a network of trained, qualified emergency
staff able to bring on board and operate emergency beds in short
timeframe. BCFS provides residential services to UC in the care and
custody of ORR, as well as services to include counseling, case
management, and additional support services to the family or to the UC
and their sponsor when a UC is released from ORR's care and custody.
DATES: Supplemental award funds will support activities from October 1,
2015 through September 30, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jallyn Sualog, Director, Division of
Children's Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 901 D Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20447. Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: While the number of referrals, to the
Unaccompanied Children Program in FY 2015, was below the total
referrals from FY 2014, ORR has seen a change to recent referral
trends. The UC program has seen an increase in the numbers of UC
referred for placement since January 2015. FY15 was the first fiscal
year, in the history of the UC program, in which there were eight (8)
consecutive months of steadily
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increasing referrals. ORR has experienced a steadily increasing census
of UC in care, with longer average length of stay. This increase, in UC
referred for placement, has increased the need for additional shelter
beds.
ORR has specific requirements for the provision of services. Award
recipients must have the infrastructure, licensing, experience, and
appropriate level of trained staff to meet the service requirements and
the urgent need for expansion of services. The program's ability to
avoid a buildup of children waiting, in Border Patrol stations, for
placement in shelters, can only be accommodated through the expansion
of the existing program and its services through the supplemental
award.
Statutory Authority: This program is authorized by--
(A) Section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which in
March 2003, transferred responsibility for the care and custody of
Unaccompanied Alien Children from the Commissioner of the former
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to the Director of ORR of
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
(B) The Flores Settlement Agreement, Case No. CV85-4544RJK (C.D.
Cal. 1996), as well as the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-457), which
authorizes post release services under certain conditions to eligible
children. All programs must comply with the Flores Settlement
Agreement, Case No. CV85-4544-RJK (C.D. Cal. 1996), pertinent
regulations and ORR policies and procedures.
Christopher Beach,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Division of Grants Policy, Office of
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-00886 Filed 1-19-16; 8:45 am]
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