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1992.01.31 :  Temporary Child Care Grants

Contact:  Bill McPherrin (202) 245-2760 
January 31, 1992

        HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., has announced the
award of over $3 million in grants to help states develop
temporary child care or respite care for children with
disabilities and chronically or terminally ill children,
including children with AIDS or AIDS-related conditions.
        The 16 grants will establish care programs that provide
families with 24-hour in-home or out-of-home temporary, non-
medical child care.  Family support, counseling and therapy are
examples of services provided through the programs.
        "The temporary child care and respite care programs are
designed to reduce the social, economic and financial stress
experienced by these families," said Jo Anne B. Barnhart, 
assistant secretary for children and families.  "This care
provides a needed relief from the overwhelming pressures that
families or primary caregivers face in caring for children who
require constant attention."
        Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., commissioner, Administration on
Children, Youth and Families, said, "These programs will help
maintain and support the family unit and strengthen the parent-
child bond." 
        ACYF, located in HHS' Administration for Children and
Families, serves as a focal point within the federal government
for serving children and families.

        Grant recipients are:

     o    Arkansas Department of Human Services, Little Rock,   
          $200,000.
     
     o    California Department of Social Services, Sacramento, 
          $199,998.

     o    Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative
          Services, Tallahassee, $200,000.

     o    Georgia Department of Human Resources, Atlanta,
          $200,000.

     o    Illinois Department of Children and Family Service,    
          Springfield, $200,000.

     o    Iowa Department of Human Services, Des Moines,
          $198,850.

     o    Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Boston,    
          $l74,l02.

     o    Michigan Department of Social Services, Lansing,
          $199,931.

     o    Minnesota Department of Human Services, St. Paul, $200,000.

     o    Missouri Department of Social Services, Jefferson City,
          $197,962.

     o    Nebraska Department of Social Services, Lincoln,
          $200,000.

     o    New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton, 
          $200,000.

     o    South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural
          Affairs, Pierre, $200,000.

     o    Vermont Department of Mental Health and Mental 
          Retardation, Montpelier, $200,000.

     o    Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, $189,967.

     o    West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, 
          Charleston, $200,000.


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