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1991.10.08 :  Grants -- Head Start Economic Empowerment Partnerships

Contact:  Larry Dye -- (HHS) (202) 401-9215
John Czwartacki -- (HUD) (202) 708-0685
Charles Chamness -- (HUD) (202) 708-3686
October 8, 1991

       As part of the continued interagency effort to empower
low-income families, the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and the Department of Health and Human Services
announced today the funding of 13 Economic Empowerment
Partnerships to encourage economic self-sufficiency through job
training, child care, and resident management and home ownership
efforts in public housing communities. 
       In addition, HUD and HHS have awarded 22 Head Start 
organizations $4.8 million to complement the empowerment
initiative by providing the supportive services of full-day child
care for low-income families who desire to work, seek employment
training or pursue educational goals.
       "The partnerships created by these initiatives will help
families escape the trap of poverty and despair,"  HUD Secretary
Jack Kemp said.  "Providing services like Head Start and other
self-sufficiency programs to those in need will give them the
opportunity to better their lives and the lives of their
children."  
       HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., said, "By
integrating programs, HHS and HUD want to do more than merely
provide services.  With these partnerships, President Bush's
administration wants to meet human needs with common sense
approaches that open paths for people to move up and stay up, to
move away from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency."
       The first 13 Empowerment Partnerships have been formed to
develop integrated programs designed to:
     .    Empower residents of public and Indian housing to take
control of their communities through resident management and 
other self-sufficiency initiatives;

     .    Help families receiving welfare to move off Aid to
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and other assistance
programs and to become economically self-sufficient by requiring
participation in HHS' Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training
(JOBS) program, including its work component for a minimum of 20
hours per week.

     .    Help families participate successfully in the HOPE 
(Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere)initiatives
by creating jobs and family savings.

       The 13 partnerships will receive a total of $2 million in
Community Development Block Grant Technical Assistance monies,
human assistance waivers, and exemptions to facilitate on-site
delivery of an integrated array of diverse services, including
job training and child care.

       The Head Start awards, which range from $60,000 to
$300,000, will be used for program start-up costs and operating
expenses.  
          (See attached for list of grantees.)

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ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
                              Summary
Grantee                                                Funding

Shelby County Government                     Tenn.     $250,000
Housing Authority of the City of Easton PA   Pa.       $150,000
Lakewood Housing Authority                   Colo.     $ 56,866
City of Hartford                             Conn.     $260,140
Maryland Department of Human Resources       Md.       $200,000
Housing Auth. of City of Ft. Walton Beach    Fla.      $140,551
Housing Authority of the City of Raleigh     N.C.      $ 53,784
Housing Auth. of the County of Salt Lake     Utah      $131,250
Housing Authority of Salt Lake City          Utah      $  5,000
Nickerson Gardens Resident Management        Calif.    $400,000
Housing Authority of the City of El Paso     Texas     $ 76,838
Housing Auth. of the City of Ft. Myers       Fla.      $ 50,000
Norfolk Housing and Redevelopment Auth.      Va.       $225,571

                                                     $2,000,000
                                        


LIST OF HEAD START GRANTEES

Northern Pan Handle, Wheeling, West Va.           $256,222
Board of Education, New Haven, Conn.              $300,000
Dade County Board of County Commissioners,        $112,239
Miami, Fla.
Total Action Against Poverty, Roanoke, Va.        $300,000
Sacramento Employment and Training Agency         $150,000
(SETA), Sacramento, Calif.
Office for Children, Fairfax, Va.                 $189,666
Council on Human Relations                        $299,982
(Raintree), Auburn, Ala.
People Inc. of SW Virginia, Abingdon, Va.         $150,000
Northeast Oklahoma Action                         $150,000
Agency, Inc., Jay, Okla.
Standing Rock Sioux, Fort Yates, N.D.             $294,840
Seminole Tribe, Hollywood, Fla.                   $281,668
Opportunities for Chenango,                       $195,000
Norwich, N.Y.
County of Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pa.              $125,000
Lac Courte Oreilles, Hayward, Wis.                $286,559
Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development        $265,186
Board, Houghton, Mich.
Hall Neighborhood House, Bridgeport, Conn.        $300,000
Washington State Migrant, Sunnyside, Wash.        $296,950
Central Missouri Counties Human Dev. Corp.,       $ 66,939
Columbia, Mo.
Ounce of Prevention, Chicago, Ill.                $149,300
Wise County and Norton Head Start                 $241,999
Inc., Norton, Va.
Paducah Independent Schools, Paducah, Ky.         $150,000
Leech Lake Council, Cass Lake, Minn.              $297,450