Shelter Care and Child Welfare Services to Alien Unaccompanied Minors; Availability of Funding for Cooperative Agreements

Résumé

This announcement governs the award of Cooperative Agreements to public or private non-profit organizations or agencies, and, under certain conditions, to for-profit organizations or agencies, to provide shelter care and related child welfare services to alien minors detained in the custody of the United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. The programs providing such services shall hereafter be referred to as the Alien Unaccompanied Minors Shelter Care Programs (AUMSCPs). AUMSCPs have the specific goal of providing shelter care and other related child welfare services to male and female alien minors under 18 years of age who are referred to the CRS by the INS. These child welfare services will afford alien minors a structured, safe and productive environment which meets or exceeds respective State guidelines and standards for similar services designed to serve minors in AUMSCP care and custody. Applications submitted pursuant to this announcement must plan for the delivery of services to a population of alien minors (8-10 beds in the San Francisco, California area; 24 beds in the Los Angeles, California area; and 24 beds in the San Diego, Californi