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The Education for Homeless Children and Youth program provides activities for and services to ensure that homeless children and homeless youths enroll in, attend, and achieve in school; to establish or designate an office in each state education agency (SEA) and outlying area for the coordination of education for homeless children and youth; to develop and carry out a state or area plan for the education of homeless children and youth; to develop and implement programs for school personnel to heighten awareness of specific problems of homeless children and youth; and to provide grants to local education agencies.
Funds for this program are used primarily to identify homeless children, and to develop and carry out plans to ensure that homeless children and youth in each state have access to a free, appropriate public education. Funds may be used by SEAs for direct education services to children to encourage participation in school and improve their chances of success. Funds may also be used to support programs for school personnel relating to homeless children and youth. When their appropriation exceeds the amount received in fiscal year 1990 the SEAs must make subgrants to LEAs for the purpose of facilitating the enrollment, attendance, and success of homeless children and youth in schools.
Departments of education in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the outlying areas, and schools serving Indian students that are funded by the Secretary of the Interior may apply for funds under this program.
Francine Vinson
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-6132
(202) 260-2777
This Family Support Center is designed to reduce the rate of repeated incidence of homelessness among Center clientele and to decrease the incidence of first time homelessness among community participants; to enhance the living conditions of low and very low income families; to improve the physical, social, and educational development of low and very low income families; to improve the physical, social, and educational development of low- and very low-income children and families served by the program; and to achieve progress toward increased potential for independence and self-sufficiency among families served. The Gateway Demonstration Program is for local education agencies, in consultation with the local public housing authority and private industry council, to provide on-site education, training and necessary support services to promote increases in literacy levels and basic employment skills to economically disadvantaged residents of public housing.
Sheldon Shalit or Richard Saul
Community Demonstration Programs
Administration for Children and Families
Office of Community Services
370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW
Washington, DC 20447
(202) 401-9233
This program assists states and localities in establishing and carrying out programs designed to assist youth, with respect to whom foster care maintenance payments are or have been made by the state and who have attained age 16, in making the transition from foster care to independent living.
Grants may be used on behalf of eligible youths for skill development, and education or training related to independent living, but not for room and board. State governments, including the District of Columbia, are eligible to apply.
Contact Regional Administration for Children and Families (Appendix VIII).
Mr. Michael Ambrose
Director
Division of Child Welfare
Administration for Children and Families
P.O. Box 1182
Washington, DC 20013
(202) 205-8470
This program offers support to local education agencies in their efforts to reform elementary and secondary school programs that serve Indian students in order to ensure that programs are based on challenging state content standards and student performance standards that are used for all students, and are designed to assist Indian students meet those standards in reaching the National Education Goals. Grantees may use funds for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of supplementary project specifically designed to assist Indian students in state content and student performance standards. Projects must be designed in response to a locally conducted needs assessment and with the full cooperation and involvement of an elected committee representing parents of the Indian students to be served. Permissible activities include but are not limited to: culturally related activities; early childhood and family programs emphasizing school readiness; and enrichment program that directly support the attainment of state content and performance standards.
Eligibility is limited to local education agencies (LEAs) that enroll at least 10 Indian children or in which Indians constitute at least 25 percent of the total enrollment. These requirements do not apply to LEAs serving Indian children in Alaska, California, and Oklahoma or located on, or in proximity to, an Indian reservation. Schools that receive funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs under Section 1130 of the Education Amendments of 1978 25 U.S.C. 2001; are deemed to be eligible to participate in this program.
Sandra Spaulding
Director, Division of Program Operations
Office of Indian Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 260-1441
This program funds projects addressing the special education needs of Native Hawaiian students. Projects may include:
No more than 7 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of this program for any fiscal year may be used for administrative purposes. Each application for funds under this program must be accompanied by the comments of each local education agency serving students participating in the project.
State of Hawaii or Native Hawaiian organizations may apply.
Linda Glidewell
Switzer Building, 330 C Street, SW
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
U.S. Department of Education
Washington, DC 20202
(202) 205-9099
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