Notice is hereby given that I have delegated to the Director of the Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS) and to the DUCS Program Specialists, the following authority vested in the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law No. 107296, 462, 6 U.S.C. 279.
(a) Authority

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Program Office: Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB).

Program Announcement Number: HHS2006ACFACYFFVPS0122.

Announcement Title: Family Violence Prevention and Services/Grants to State Domestic Violence Coalitions.

CFDA Number: 93.591.

Dates: Due Date for Applications: April

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

This notice announces the estimated median income for four- person families in each State and the District of Columbia for FFY 2007 (October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007). LIHEAP grantees may adopt the State median income estimates beginning with the date of this publication of the estimates in the Federal Register or at a later date as discussed

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Project:

Title: Relationship Quality Instrument for Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendments of 2001 (Pub. L. 107133) amended Title IVB of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629629e) to provide funding for nonprofit agencies that

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects:

Title: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF/National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) Match Results Report.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: Section 453(j)(3) of the Social Security Act (the Act) allows for matching between NDNH (maintained by the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) and

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Child Care and Development Fund Annual Aggregate Report.

OMB No.: 09700150.

Description: Section 658K of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101508, 42 U.S.C. 9858) requires that the States and the Territories submit annual aggregate data on the children and families receiving direct services under the

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Sanction Policies Task Order.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: This study is designed to determine how local welfare offices implement sanction policies in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. This study will survey local welfare staff to gather indepth qualitative information on how workers interpret the

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Announcement Type: InitialGrant.

Funding Opportunity Number: HHS2006ACFADDDH0034.

CFDA Number: 93.618.

Due Date for Letter of Intent: March 27, 2006.

Due Date for Applications: April 24, 2006.

Executive Summary: The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.

OMB No.: 69800229.

Description: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families established the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to respond to the 1988 and 1992 amendments (Pub. L. 100294 and Pub. L. 102295) to the Child Abuse Prevention and

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: April 2006 Current Population Survey Supplement on Child Support.

OMB No.: 09920003.

Description: Collection of these data will assist legislators and policymakers in determining how effective their policymaking efforts have been over time in applying the various child support legislation to the overall child support enforcement

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Refugee StateofOrigin Report.

OMB No.: 09700043.

Description: The information collection of the ORR11 (Refugee StateofOrigin Report) is designed to satisfy the statutory requirements of the Immigration and Nationally Act. Section 412(a)(3) of the Act requires the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to compile

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Project

Title: CommunityBased Abstinence Education Program (CBAE) Common Grant Guidance for Discretionary Grants.

OMB No.: 09700272.

Description: The discretionary funding CommunityBased Abstinence Education Program (CBAE) is authorized by Title XI, Section 1110, of the Social Security Act (using the definitions contained in

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: ACF196 State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Financial Report.

OMB No.: 09700247.

Description: This information collection is authorized under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). This request is for renewal of approval to use the Administration for Children and Families'

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL Enhanced Services for the HardtoEmploy Demonstration and Evaluation: Rhode Island 15Month Survey Amendment.

OMB No.: 09700276.

Description: The Enhanced Services for the HardtoEmploy Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) is the most ambitious, comprehensive effort to learn what works in this area to date and

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Building Strong Families (BSF) Demonstration and EvaluationImplementation and Impact Study.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: This proposed information collection activity is for two types of data collections: (1) Interview and focus group protocols for use with program staff and couples enrolled in BSF programs

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: National Implementation of Head Start National Reporting System on Child Outcomes.

OMB No.: 09700249.

Description: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is requesting comments on plans

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: FollowUp Study of Issues Affecting the Duration of Child Care Subsidy Use.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: Child care subsidies provide an important benefit to lowincome working families, offering them increased access to forms of child care that would otherwise be beyond their means. However, recent

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: 45 CFR Part 1309 Head Start Facilities Purchase, Major Renovation and Construction.

OMB No.: 09700193.

Description: The Head Start Bureau is proposing to renew, without changes, 45 CFR 1309. This rule contains the administrative requirements for Head Start and Early Head Start grantees who apply for funding to

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

The Children's Bureau (CB) within the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) announces the proposed priorities for research on the causes, prevention, assessment, identification, treatment, cultural and socioeconomic distinctions, and the consequences of child abuse and neglect.

Section 104(a)(4) of the Child Abuse Prevention and

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Pursuant to section 814 of the Native American Programs Act of 1974 (the Act) as amended by 42 U.S.C. 2992b1, ANA herein describes its proposed interpretive rules and general statements of policy and rules of agency procedure or practice in relation to the Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) Special Initiative Program Announcement:

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Office of Refugee ResettlementAuthorization for Release of Information (R317).

OMB No.: OMB 09700278.

Description: The 2002 Homeland Security Act (Pub. L. 107296) charged the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with the care and placement of unaccompanied alien

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: National Implementation of Head Start, National Reporting System on Child Outcomes.

OMB No.: 09700249.

Description: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), within Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is requesting comments on plans to implement the

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: The Office of Community Services (OCS) Evaluation Initiative.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: This questionnaire is part of a contract that addresses evaluation strategies for three programs administered by OCS: Community Economic Development (CED), Rural Community Facilities (RF), and Job Opportunities

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration