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Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
as Amended by the
Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003
SECTION I: CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT
Sec. 205. APPLICATION. [42 U.S.C. 5116d]
[This section was amended by sec. 125 of P.L. 108-36.]
A grant may not be made to a State under this title unless an application therefore
is submitted by the State to the Secretary and such application contains
the types of information specified by the Secretary as essential to carrying
out the provisions of section 202, including—
- a description of the lead entity that will be responsible for the
administration of funds provided under this title and the oversight of
programs funded through the community-based and prevention-focused programs
and activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent
child abuse and neglect (through networks where appropriate) which meets
the requirements of section 202;
- a description of how the community-based
an prevention-focused programs and activities designed to strengthen and
support families to prevent child abuse and neglect (through networks
where appropriate) will operate and how family resource and support services
provided by public and private, nonprofit organizations, will be integrated
into a developing continuum of family centered, holistic, preventive services
for children and families;
- a description of the inventory of current
unmet needs and current community-based and prevention-focused programs
and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect, and other family resource
services operating in the State;
- a budget for the development, operation
and expansion of the community-based and prevention-focused programs and
activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent child
abuse and neglect that verifies that the State will expend in non-Federal
funds an amount equal to not less than 20 percent of the amount received
under this title (in cash, not in-kind) for activities under this title;
- an assurance that funds received under this title will supplement,
not supplant, other State and local public funds designated for the start
up, maintenance, expansion, and redesign of community-based and preventionfocused
programs and activities designed to strengthen and support families to
prevent child abuse and neglect;
- an assurance that the State has the
capacity to ensure the meaningful involvement of parents who are consumers
and who can provide leadership in the planning, implementation, and evaluation
of the programs and policy decisions of the applicant agency in accomplishing
the desired outcomes for such efforts;
- a description of the criteria
that the entity will use to develop, or select and fund, community-based
and prevention-focused programs and activities designed to strengthen
and support families to prevent child abuse and neglect as part of network
development, expansion or enhancement;
- a description of outreach activities
that the entity and the community-based and prevention-focused programs
and activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent
child abuse and neglect will undertake to maximize the participation of
racial and ethnic minorities, children and adults with disabilities, homeless
families and those at risk of homelessness, and members of other underserved
or underrepresented groups;
- a plan for providing operational support,
training and technical assistance to community-based and prevention-focused
programs and activities designed to strengthen and support families to
prevent child abuse and neglect for development, operation, expansion
and enhancement activities;
- a description of how the applicant entity’s
activities and those of the network and its members (where appropriate)
will be evaluated;
- a description of the actions that the applicant
entity will take to advocate systemic changes in State policies, practices,
procedures and regulations to improve the delivery of community-based
and preventionfocused programs and activities designed to strengthen and
support families to prevent child abuse and neglect services to children
and families; and
- an assurance that the applicant entity will provide
the Secretary with reports at such time and containing such information
as the Secretary may require.
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