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Grants support the development and operation of community health centers that provide preventive and primary health care services, supplemental health and support services and environmental health services to medically underserved areas/populations. The program's priorities include providing services in the most medically underserved areas and maintaining existing centers that are serving high priority populations. Grants are designated for the actual delivery of primary care services and do not cover any facility costs.
Eligibility: Public agencies, nonprofit private organizations, and a limited number of state and local governments are eligible to apply. Profit-making organizations are not eligible.
Grants assist states in providing safe, appropriate, 24-hour substitute care for children who are under state care and need temporary placement outside their homes.Funds may be used to cover state or local foster care maintenance payments on behalf of eligible children; administrative and training costs; and costs related to the design, implementation and operation of a statewide data collection system.
Eligibility: Title IV-E foster care funds are awarded to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes, Indian Tribal organizations and Tribal consortia with approved title IV-E plans
Grants enable states to maintain and strengthen their leadership in planning, promoting, coordinating and evaluating health care for pregnant women, mothers, infants, children and children with special health care needs, and to provide health services for mothers and children who do not have access to adequate health care.States may use funds to develop systems of care for the provision of health services and related activities, including planning, administration, education and evaluation consistent with the state's annual application. Youth initiatives can partner with other agencies to provide health care and other systems building services for youth.
Eligibility: To receive MCH Services Block Grant funds, states are required to (1) conduct a needs assessment every five years; (2) provide an annual report, including program participation data, state maternal and child health measures, and state pediatric and family workforce measures; and (3) ensure that an independent audit is performed every two years.
This program supports guaranteed and insured loans that provide communities with a source of financing for economic development, housing rehabilitation, public facilities, and large-scale physical development projects.Projects and activities must either principally benefit low- and moderate-income persons, aid in the elimination or prevention of slums and blight, or meet urgent needs of the community. A wide range of community and economic development projects have been funded, including public facilities, housing rehabilitation projects, and economic development loan funds.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants include the following public entities: States; Metropolitan cities and urban counties (i.e., CDBG entitlement recipients); Non-entitlement communities that are assisted in the submission of applications by States that administer the CDBG Program; Non-entitlement communities eligible to receive CDBG funds under the HUD-Administered Small Cities CDBG Program (Hawaii). The public entity may be the borrower or it may designate a public agency partner as the borrower
The CDBG program works to ensure decent affordable housing, to provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities, and to create jobs through the expansion and retention of businesses. CDBG is an important tool for helping local governments tackle serious challenges facing their communities. The CDBG program has made a difference in the lives of millions of people and their communities across the Nation.
Eligibility: Principal cities of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs); Other metropolitan cities with populations of at least 50,000; Qualified urban counties with populations of at least 200,000 (excluding the population of entitled cities).Each activity must meet one of the following national objectives for the program: benefit low- and moderate-income persons, prevention or elimination of slums or blight, or address community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community for which other funding is not available.
Under the State CDBG Program, states award grants to smaller units of general local government that develop and preserve decent affordable housing, to provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities, and to create and retain jobs. Annually, each State develops funding priorities and criteria for selecting projects.This program focuses primarily on physical infrastructure improvements that promote community economic development. Funds are used for local neighborhood revitalization, economic development, or provision of improved community facilities and services.
Eligibility: 49 States and Puerto Rico participate in the State CDBG Program. HUD continues to administer the program for the non-entitled counties in the State of Hawaii because the State has permanently elected not to participate in the State CDBG Program. HUD distributes funds to each State based on a statutory formula which takes into account population, poverty, incidence of overcrowded housing, and age of housing.
The purpose of this program is to prevent youth at risk of becoming delinquent from entering the juvenile justice system and to intervene with first-time and non-serious offenders to keep them from further contact with the juvenile justice system.The goal is to reduce the likelihood that youth will become serious and violent offenders as adults, reducing the burden of crime on society and saving taxpayers billions of dollars
Eligibility: States, territories, units of local government, federally recognized tribal governments, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and institutions of higher education. Forprofit organizations must agree to waive any profit or fees for services
The mission of the OJJDP is to strengthen the juvenile justice system by providing training, technical assistance, and information on trends, new approaches, and innovative techniques to juvenile courts and court personnel; law enforcement; detention and corrections; youth service providers; and child advocacy organizations.
Eligibility: Federally-recognized Indian tribes, tribal coalitions and Native Alaska Villages are eligible to apply.
The Job Corps is a national, residential education and employment training program administered by the Department of Labor to address the multiple barriers to employment faced by disadvantaged youth, ages 16 through 24.The Department of Labor awards and administers contracts for recruitment and screening of new students, Job Corps center operations, and placement of students leaving Job Corps. Job Corps centers provide integrated academic, vocational, and social skills training to help disadvantaged youth further their education, obtain quality long-term employment and gain independence. Youth initiatives may coordinate with Job Corps centers to recruit and place Job Corps students in the workforce.
Eligibility: Colleges and Universities - The goal of the Job Corps Experimental Projects and Technical Assistance program is to determine whether two-year, public community colleges; accredited, public two- and four-year historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs); and accredited tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCUs) can provide quality job training and placement to Job Corps eligible students that is less costly and has better employment outcomes than the traditional Job Corps model.
The Registered Apprenticeship system has been utilized to meet the needs of America's skilled workforce for over 75 years. It is a unique, flexible training system that combines job related technical instruction with structured on-the-job learning experiences. Registered Apprenticeship is a leader in preparing American workers to compete in a global 21st Century economy because the system keeps pace with advancing technologies and innovations in training and human resource development.
Eligibility: Employers, a group of employers, an association of employers, and individual employers with or without, in each case, participation in a labor union.
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