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Parental Involvement Programs

Child Care/Early Childhood Education

Child Care and Development Block Grant

This program makes grants available to states, territories, and tribal governments to assist low-income families with child care services. The purpose of the program is to increase the availability, affordability, and quality of child care and to increase the availability of early childhood development and before- and after-school programs.

At least 25 percent of the funds must be used as follows:

• not less than 75 percent must be used for early childhood development and before- and after-school care;
  
• not less than 20 percent must be used for quality improvement activities;
  
• the residual funds can be used at the grantee’s discretion for the above activities.

Grantees must use the remaining funds (up to 75 percent of the total funds) for direct child care services and quality improvement activities. Contact regional administrators (listed in appendix VIII). Headquarters contact:

Sue Sosler
Child Care Bureau
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
3rd Floor, Room 352-G
Washington, DC 20201
(202) 690-5660

Child Welfare Services Training Grants

The purpose of this program is to develop and maintain an adequate supply of qualified and trained personnel for the child welfare field, and to improve education programs and resources for preparing personnel for this field. Grants are made to accredited public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning for special projects for training personnel for work in the field of child welfare.

Awards are made to institutions of higher learning.

Contact: Regional Administrator, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, (appendix VIII). Headquarters contact:

Marc Mannes
Children's Bureau
Administration for Children and Families
P.O. Box 1182
Washington, DC 20013
(202) 401-7626

Comprehensive Child Development Centers

The objectives of this program are to plan for and carry out projects for a five-year period to provide intensive, comprehensive, integrated, and continuous support services for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers from low-income families to enhance their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development and provide support to their parents and other family members. Grants are provided for carrying out projects for intensive, comprehensive, integrated and continuous support services for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers from low-income families.

Applications are only accepted after the publication of a request for proposal through a Federal Register Announcement. Eligible entities include:

• a Head Start agency
  
• an agency that is eligible to be designated as a Head Start agency under the Head Start Act;
  
• a community based organization
  
• an institution of higher education
  
• a public hospital
  
• a community development corporation
  
• a public or private nonprofit agency or organization specializing in delivering social services to infants or young children

Mary Bogle
Administration for Children and Families
P.O. Box 1182
Washington, DC 20013
(202) 205-8891

Even Start -- State Education Agencies

Even Start provides family-centered education projects to help parents become full partners in the education of their children, to assist children in reaching their full potential as learners, and to provide literacy training for their parents. These formula grants are used primarily for such activities as recruitment and screening of children and parents, design of programs, instruction of children and parents, staff training, and coordination with other programs.

Under this program, the state education agencies (SEAs) are the primary fund recipients. However, the program is administered by subgrantees that are local education agencies (LEAs) applying to their SEAs in collaboration with community-based organizations, public agencies, institutions of higher education or other nonprofit organizations. Any of the latter, with demonstrated quality, may apply in collaboration with an LEA.

Parents eligible for participation under the Adult Education Act and their from birth to seven-year-old children if they reside in an elementary school attendance area designed for participation in the program benefit.

Donna Conforti-Campbell
Compensatory Education Programs
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6132
(202) 260-0996

Even Start -- Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations

The Even Start Program for Indian Tribes provides family-centered education projects to help parents become full partners in the education of their children, to assist children in reaching their full potential as learners, and to provide literacy training for their parents. Funds for this program are used primarily for such activities as recruitment and screening of children and parents, designing of program instructions for children and parents, training staff, and coordinating with other programs. Federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations may apply.

Donna Comforti-Campbell
Compensatory Education Programs
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6132
(202) 260-0996

Even Start -- Migrant Education

The Migrant Education Even Start program provides family-centered education projects to help parents of migratory children become full partners in the education of their children, to assist migratory children in reaching their full potential as learners, and to provide literacy training for their parents. Funds appropriated for this program are used for such activities as recruitment and screening of children and parents, design of programs, instruction of children and parents, staff training, and coordination with other programs. They are used exclusively for parents who are migratory agricultural workers or fishers.

Bayla White
Migrant Education Program
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Portals Building, Room 4104
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 260-1164

Grants to States for Planning and Development of Dependent Care Programs

This program assists states in the planning, development, establishment, operation, expansion, or improvement of services related to dependent care resource and referral, and services related to school-age child care before and after school. Forty percent of a state’s funds will be available for activities related to resource and referral systems for dependent care services and 60 percent for operating, planning, and establishing school-age child care. No more than 10 percent may be used for administrative costs. States may request a waiver of the percentage requirements. Funds may not be used to make cash payments to intended recipients of services, subsidize direct provision of services, or for construction or renovation.

This is a formula grant program available to states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia; the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Virgin Islands.

Helen H. Smith
Children’s Bureau
Administration for Children and Families
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20013
(202) 690-6782

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