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III. Meeting Agenda
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II. Advisory Committee Membership
Roster
On November 23, 2021, HHS
published a Notice of Charter and
Invitation for Member Nominations in
the Federal Register for the GAPB
Advisory Committee (86 FR 66565
through 66566). On December 16, 2022,
HHS published a Federal Register
Notice Announcing the 17 Members of
the GAPB Advisory Committee (87 FR
77122 through 77123). A subsequent
update to the Committee Roster was
published on April 14, 2023 (88 FR
23046).
The 17 Members of the GAPB
Advisory Committee are as follows:
• Asbel Montes—Committee
Chairperson; Additional Representative
determined necessary and appropriate
by the Secretaries.
• Ali Khawar—Secretary of Labor’s
Designee.
• Carol Weiser—Secretary of the
Treasury’s Designee.
• Rogelyn McLean—Secretary of
Health and Human Services’ Designee.
• Gamunu Wijetunge—Department of
Transportation—National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration.
• Suzanne Prentiss—State Insurance
Regulators.
• Adam Beck—Health Insurance
Providers.
• Patricia Kelmar—Consumer
Advocacy Groups.
• Gary Wingrove—Patient Advocacy
Groups.
• Ayobami Ogunsola—State and
Local Governments.
• Ritu Sahni—Physician specializing
in emergency, trauma, cardiac, or stroke.
• Peter Lawrence—State Emergency
Medical Services Officials.
• Shawn Baird—Emergency Medical
Technicians, Paramedics, and Other
Emergency Medical Services Personnel.
• Edward Van Horne—Representative
of Various Segments of the Ground
Ambulance Industry.
• Regina Godette-Crawford—
Representative of Various Segments of
the Ground Ambulance Industry.
• Rhonda Holden—Representative of
Various Segments of the Ground
Ambulance Industry.
• Loren Adler—Additional
Representative determined necessary
and appropriate by the Secretaries.
The GAPB Advisory Committee
Roster is also available on the GAPB
Advisory Committee website at: https://
www.cms.gov/medicare/regulationsguidance/advisory-committees/groundambulance-patient-billing-gapb. All
future updates to the Advisory
Committee Roster will be published on
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The third public meeting of the GAPB
Advisory Committee will take place on
October 31, 2023 and November 1, 2023.
On October 31, 2023, the Committee
will be presented with findings and
recommendations from its
subcommittees for discussion and
deliberation. On November 1, 2023, the
Committee will formally vote on which
recommendations to adopt in its Report
to the Secretaries. A more detailed
agenda and materials will be made
available prior to the meeting on the
GAPB Advisory Committee website
(listed previously).
IV. Public Participation
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1, 2023 GAPB Advisory Committee
meeting will be open to the public.
Attendance may be limited due to
virtual meeting constraints. Interested
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V. Submitting Written Comments
Members of the public may submit
written comments for consideration by
the Committee at any time via email to
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Additionally, members of the public
will have the opportunity to submit
comments during the October 31, 2023
and November 1, 2023 virtual meeting
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public are encouraged to submit lengthy
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
[CFDA Number: [93.569]]
Announcement of the Intent To Award
Three Supplements to Community
Services Block Grant Award
Recipients
Office of Community Services
(OCS), Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of issuance of
supplements.
AGENCY:
OCS announces the intent to
award a supplement in the amount of
up to $3.6 million ($1.2 million per year
for 3 fiscal years at $400,000 per
individual award) to three Community
Services Block Grant (CSBG) award
recipients under Notice of Funding
Opportunity (NOFO): Regional
Performance and Innovation Consortia
(RPIC) (HHS–2019–ACF–OCS–ET–1582,
HHS–2019–ACF–OCS–ET–1586, and
HHS–2019–ACF–OCS–ET–1587). The
purpose of the RPIC awards is to
support robust regional training and
technical (T/TA) strategies for the CSBG
Network—states, territories, directlyfunded tribes and tribal organizations,
and CSBG-eligible entities, and state
associations within the 10 ACF regions.
The RPICs are designed to assist in
meeting high organizational standards
in the areas of consumer input and
involvement, community engagement,
community assessment, organizational
leadership, board governance, strategic
planning, human resource management,
financial operations and oversight, and
data and analysis. In addition, the RPICs
identify, promote, and support
multiyear T/TA efforts to ensure highquality programs and services and
impactful outcomes for individuals,
families, and communities.
DATES: The proposed period of
performance is September 30, 2023, to
September 29, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Lanikque Howard, Ph.D., Director,
Office of Community Services, 330 C
Street SW, Washington, DC 20201.
SUMMARY:
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Telephone: (202) 740–5951; Email:
lanikque.howard@acf.hhs.gov.
In Fiscal
Year 2023, OCS published a total of 11
separate new competitive grant
opportunities for the RPIC, each
corresponding to a specific ACF region.1
Each NOFO mandated that applicants
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
must be physically located in the ACF
region of their application. As the merit
review process was initiated, OCS
identified that Regions 3, 6, and 7 were
not represented by eligible applicants
due to their inadvertent error of
applying for a different region’s NOFO
rather than their own. This supplement
will enable the current award recipients
to support and sustain the continuance
of vital regional CSBG T/TA strategies
and activities to align the period of
performance, activities, timelines, and
OCS oversight among all CSBG regional
T/TA award recipients.
OCS announces the intent to award
the following supplement awards:
Recipient
Award amount
Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies, Annapolis, Maryland .....................................................................................
Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies, Inc., Edmond, Oklahoma ............................................................................
Kansas Association of Community Action Program, Inc., Topeka, Kansas .......................................................................................
Statutory Authority: Sections
674(b)(2)(A) and 678A of the CSBG Act,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 9903(b)(2)(A)
and 9913).
Karen D. Shields,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of
Grants Policy, Office of Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Home-Based Child Care
Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age
Children Study (New Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, United States
Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation
(OPRE) at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) is proposing
to collect information to examine a
toolkit of new measures designed to
assess and strengthen the quality of
child care, the Home-Based Child Care
Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age
Children (HBCC–NSAC Toolkit). This
study aims to build evidence about the
English version of the HBCC–NSAC
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SUMMARY:
Toolkit for use by/with providers caring
for children in a residential setting (i.e.,
home-based child care [HBCC]).
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and
submit comments by emailing
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit is designed for home-based
providers who regularly care for at least
1 school-age child who is not their own.
The purpose of the HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit is to help home-based providers
identify their caregiving strengths and
areas for growth. The HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit consists of a self-administered
provider questionnaire (composed of
multiple newly developed measures)
and a family communication
questionnaire (composed of 1
communication tool). For validation
purposes, the study will include the
provider questionnaire from the HBCC–
NSAC Toolkit with additional items
from existing measures and a separate
family survey with child and family
background information items and items
from an existing measure. A subset of
providers will be observed with an
existing observation measure. Study
participants will include home-based
providers who can complete the
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$1,200,000
1,200,000
1,200,000
provider questionnaire in English. They
must currently care for at least 1 schoolage child (age 5 and in kindergarten, or
ages 6 through 12) in a home for at least
10 hours per week and for at least 8
weeks in the past year. These providers
may also care for younger children (ages
birth through 5 and not yet in
kindergarten). Families (a parent or
guardian of school-age children
receiving care in the HBCC setting) who
can complete the family survey in
English will also be included in the
study. The study will be based on a
purposive sample of home-based
providers in at least 10 geographic
locations to maximize variation in the
sample. OPRE proposes to collect
survey and observational data from
home-based providers who are licensed
or regulated by states to provide child
care and early education (CCEE) and
providers who are unlicensed or legally
exempt from state regulations for CCEE.
Study participants may or may not
participate in the child care subsidy
program. The data collection activities
are designed to provide critical
information that is needed to analyze
the reliability and validity of the HBCC–
NSAC Toolkit’s provider questionnaire.
The resulting data will help ACF
understand if the HBCC–NSAC Toolkit’s
provider questionnaire can be used to
support home-based providers in
identifying and reflecting on their
caregiving strengths and areas for
growth.
Respondents: Home-based providers;
families of the children cared for by the
providers.
1 Note: Due to the size of Region 4, OCS funds two
RPICs in the region (4a and 4b).
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: [93.569]]
Announcement of the Intent To Award Three Supplements to
Community Services Block Grant Award Recipients
AGENCY: Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children
and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of issuance of supplements.
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SUMMARY: OCS announces the intent to award a supplement in the amount
of up to $3.6 million ($1.2 million per year for 3 fiscal years at
$400,000 per individual award) to three Community Services Block Grant
(CSBG) award recipients under Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):
Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia (RPIC) (HHS-2019-ACF-OCS-
ET-1582, HHS-2019-ACF-OCS-ET-1586, and HHS-2019-ACF-OCS-ET-1587). The
purpose of the RPIC awards is to support robust regional training and
technical (T/TA) strategies for the CSBG Network--states, territories,
directly-funded tribes and tribal organizations, and CSBG-eligible
entities, and state associations within the 10 ACF regions. The RPICs
are designed to assist in meeting high organizational standards in the
areas of consumer input and involvement, community engagement,
community assessment, organizational leadership, board governance,
strategic planning, human resource management, financial operations and
oversight, and data and analysis. In addition, the RPICs identify,
promote, and support multiyear T/TA efforts to ensure high-quality
programs and services and impactful outcomes for individuals, families,
and communities.
DATES: The proposed period of performance is September 30, 2023, to
September 29, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Lanikque Howard, Ph.D., Director,
Office of Community Services, 330 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20201.
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Telephone: (202) 740-5951; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Fiscal Year 2023, OCS published a total
of 11 separate new competitive grant opportunities for the RPIC, each
corresponding to a specific ACF region.\1\ Each NOFO mandated that
applicants must be physically located in the ACF region of their
application. As the merit review process was initiated, OCS identified
that Regions 3, 6, and 7 were not represented by eligible applicants
due to their inadvertent error of applying for a different region's
NOFO rather than their own. This supplement will enable the current
award recipients to support and sustain the continuance of vital
regional CSBG T/TA strategies and activities to align the period of
performance, activities, timelines, and OCS oversight among all CSBG
regional T/TA award recipients.
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\1\ Note: Due to the size of Region 4, OCS funds two RPICs in
the region (4a and 4b).
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OCS announces the intent to award the following supplement awards:
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Recipient Award amount
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Maryland Association of Community Action Agencies, $1,200,000
Annapolis, Maryland....................................
Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies, Inc., 1,200,000
Edmond, Oklahoma.......................................
Kansas Association of Community Action Program, Inc., 1,200,000
Topeka, Kansas.........................................
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Statutory Authority: Sections 674(b)(2)(A) and 678A of the CSBG
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9903(b)(2)(A) and 9913).
Karen D. Shields,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy, Office of
Administration.
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