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Title: Evaluation of the Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) Program.

OMB No. New Collection.

Description: The Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendments, as reauthorized (2006), amended Title IVB of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629629e) providing funding for nonprofit agencies that recruit, screen, train, and support mentors for children with an incarcerated parent or parents. The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the Administration for Children and Families, United States Department of Health and Human Services, administers the Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. The MCP program provides children of prisoners with caring adult mentors, supporting onetoone mentoring
relationships. Research in other populations has shown that such relationships can lead to reductions in risk behaviors and improvements in academic, behavioral and psychological outcomes in children and youth. Although the MCP program was developed based on research docu ]]> http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-12-13-06-9666 Wed, Dec 13 2006 11:00:00 GMT