Announcing the Award of Six Single-Source Program Expansion Supplement Grants From the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) Program, 3427-3429 [2016-01033]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Administration for Children and Families

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 13 (Thursday, January 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3427-3429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01033]


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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 Program Expansion 
Supplement Grants From the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood 
Home Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) Program

AGENCY: Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, 
HHS.

ACTION: Notice of the award of six single-source program expansion 
supplement grants to grantees of the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) Program.

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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; 
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Bayfield, WI; the Choctaw 
Nation of Oklahoma in Durant, OK; and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma 
in Tahlequah, OK.
    The Fiscal Year 2015 single-source program expansion supplement 
grants will support the expansion of the Tribal Early Learning 
Initiative (TELI) program.

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DATES: The period of support is September 30, 2015--September 29, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel Schumacher, Director, Office of 
Child Care, 901 D Street, SW., Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: (202) 
401-6984; Email: rachel.schumacher@acf.hhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the success of the TELI 
pilot, the Office of Child Care has awarded single-source program 
expansion supplement awards to six Tribal MIECHV grantees for expansion 
of the TELI program.

Objectives of the TELI Expansion

    1. Identify and analyze systems issues, including obstacles that 
could block efforts to build and maintain partnerships, fully and 
effectively coordinate tribal early childhood development programs, and 
develop a menu of alternative interventions and strategies in line with 
tribal community values, traditions, and priorities.
    2. Develop tribally driven goals and concrete objectives in each 
local tribal community for building effective and efficient early 
childhood systems, high-quality programs, and improved outcomes for 
young children and families.
    3. Develop and carry out concrete community plans for supporting 
and strengthening cooperation, coordination, resource sharing and 
leveraging, and integration among programs that support young children 
and families in the tribal community.
    4. 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.
    Applications received from the grantees underwent objective review 
using criteria such as the applicants' ability to clearly describe the 
early learning and development programs that will participate in the 
TELI; their ability to describe existing challenges and strengths to 
collaboration across their participating early learning and development 
programs; and whether the submitted budget and budget justification 
narrative provided for reasonable project costs.

The Following Awards Are Made

    A single-source program expansion supplemental grant of $96,000 to 
the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, MT, to support 
the development of a shared data system for its early childhood 
programs that include Head Start, Child Care, and Home Visiting that 
will allow programs to improve client services by increasing 
accessibility and reducing wait time and travel time between agencies; 
a more efficient client information system; promotion of long-term, 
cross-agency communication and collaboration; improved management 
systems; and expansion of deliverables such as service reports, outcome 
analysis, evaluation, assessment success, and other data-driven tools 
that in turn help to demonstrate the program's viability and value to 
community funding agencies.
    A single-source program expansion supplemental grant of $96,000 to 
the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Siletz, OR, to support the 
identification and analysis of systems issues, including the 
identification of obstacles that could block efforts to build and 
maintain partnerships; coordination of Siletz tribal early childhood 
development programs, and the development of a menu of alternative 
interventions and strategies, that honor tribal community values, 
traditions, and priorities; and the development of tribally driven 
goals and concrete objectives in each local tribal community that 
support building effective early childhood systems and the development 
of specific community plans that support and strengthen cooperation, 
coordination, resource-sharing and leveraging, and the integration of 
programs in the Siletz Service Area.
    A single-source program expansion supplemental grant of $120,000 to 
the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, to 
improve and increase the positive impact of services on families 
throughout the state through an early childhood system that will 
provide support and services across the full range of needs from the 
prenatal period through kindergarten entry; reflect and build on the 
strengths and wisdom of tribal community values and culture; maximize 
the use of resources to foster efficiency, yielding maximum impact for 
each investment; and ensure sustainability, consistency, and ease-of-
access at the community level through referral and transition processes 
that will effectively engage parents as key stakeholders.
    A single-source program expansion supplemental grant of $96,000 to 
the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Bayfield, WI, to 
support the identification and analysis of systems issues to develop a 
menu of alternative interventions and strategies that honor tribal 
community values, traditions, and priorities; development of tribally 
driven goals and concrete objectives in each local tribal community to 
build effective and efficient early childhood systems, high-quality 
programs, and improved outcomes for children and families; 
identification of service providers that support families with young 
children; provision of training that will deepen the understanding of 
Trauma-Informed Care and education on the identification and support 
for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis; and the 
development of a 5-year plan that identifies data needs for collection, 
storage, and data protection to improve the coordination and sharing of 
key child and family data.
    A single-source program expansion supplemental grant of $96,000 to 
the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in Durant, OK, for its coordinated 
effort between the following Choctaw Nation programs: Chahta Inchukka, 
Chahta Vlla Apela, Child Care Assistance (Child Care Development Fund), 
Head Start, Early Head Start (Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership), 
and the Child Development Day Care Program. Through this initiative, 
program directors will coordinate their programs to create and support 
a seamless, high-quality, early-childhood system; raise the quality of 
services to children and families across the pregnancy-to-kindergarten-
entry continuum; and identify and break down barriers to collaboration 
and systems improvement. The Choctaw Nation will commit a TELI 
coordinator to work across all of Choctaw's early childhood TELI 
programs; host a shared training for all early learning program staff 
that will provide professional development on a relevant early 
childhood topic and offer the opportunity for staff to learn about 
other programs and network; and complete research about potential data 
systems that will better coordinate the sharing of relevant child and 
family data across programs.
    A single-source program expansion supplemental grant of $96,000 to 
the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma in Tahlequah, OK, to support 
collaboration between Cherokee PARENTS, Head Start, Early Head Start, 
and Child Care, and develop a holist approach to child development. The 
Cherokee Nation plans to develop a strategic work team comprised of a 
diverse group of stakeholders; share professional development between 
each program, including conferences and trainings; hold monthly parent/
cultural/community meetings; develop a unified assessment tool for 
assessing the needs of children and families; build a unified resource 
guide; give priority in referrals

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between programs by identifying gaps, weaknesses, and shortfalls in 
program design; and focusing on shared resources to reduce duplicative 
and burdensome processes.

    Statutory Authority: Section 511 of the Title V of the Social 
Security Act, as added by Section 2951 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-148), and amended by the 
Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-93) and the 
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Pub. L. 114-
10).

Mary M. Wayland,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Division of Grants Policy, Office of 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-01033 Filed 1-20-16; 8:45 am]
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