Availability of Discretionary Grants for Services to Newly Arriving Refugees, Including: Promoting Increased Placement of Newly Arrived Refugees SUP1/SUP In Preferred Communities; Responding to Unanticipated Arrivals or Significant Increases in Arrivals of Refugees to Communities Where Adequate or Appropriate Services do not Exist; Providing Orientation Services in Local Communities; Providing Mental Health Services on Behalf of Refugees in Local Communities; Supporting Ethnic Community Self-Hel

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This ORR standing announcement invites submission of grant applications for funding, on a competitive basis, in six categories: (1) to promote the increase of refugee placements in communities where they have ample opportunities for early employment and sustained economic independence; (2) to provide services to unanticipated arrivals, i.e., refugees who have arrived without prior notice in communities where adequate or appropriate services for these refugees do not exist; (3) to provide ethnically-and linguistically-matched orientation services to newly arriving refugees in the local communities; (4) to provide technical assistance to the grantees including those funded under Category 3, orientation; (5) to provide mental health orientation, staff development, and technical expertise to improve services for newly arriving refugee populations, and (6) to assist ethnic organizations to build bridges among newcomer communities and community resources. This notice revises previous publications. The programs numbered (1) and (2) above were first published as Categories 1 and 2 of the notice published in the Federal Register on May 18, 1994 (59 FR 25929). The notice was revised January