Notice2024-22035
Announcing the Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the Alternatives to Guardianship Youth Resource Center Cooperative Agreement
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Published
September 26, 2024
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCommunity Living Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the intent to award a single-source supplement to the current cooperative agreement held by the University of Massachusetts for the Alternatives to Guardianship Youth Resource Center cooperative agreement. The purpose of this project is to divert high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) away from guardianship to less restrictive decisional supports. The target audience for this information includes youth with I/DD, families and caregivers of high school students with I/DD, teachers, education administrators, advocates, vocational rehabilitation counselors, guidance counselors, and school district officials. The administrative supplement for FY 2024 will amount to $200,000, bringing the total award for FY 2024 to $500,000.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 187 (Thursday, September 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78876-78877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22035]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Announcing the Intent To Award a Single-Source Supplement for the
Alternatives to Guardianship Youth Resource Center Cooperative
Agreement
AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the
intent to award a single-source supplement to the current cooperative
agreement held by the University of Massachusetts for the Alternatives
to Guardianship Youth Resource Center cooperative agreement. The
purpose of this project is to divert high school students with
intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) away from
guardianship to less restrictive decisional supports. The target
audience for this information includes youth with I/DD, families and
caregivers of high school students with I/DD, teachers, education
administrators, advocates, vocational rehabilitation counselors,
guidance counselors, and school district officials. The administrative
supplement for FY 2024 will amount to $200,000, bringing the total
award for FY 2024 to $500,000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dana Fink, 202-795-7604,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ea8e8b848bc48c838481aa8b8986c4828299c48d859c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0165606f602f67686f6a4160626d2f6969722f666e77">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This supplementary funding will expand the
Alternatives to Guardianship Youth Resource Center's engagement and
education efforts around diverting high school students with I/DD away
from guardianship to less restrictive decisional supports. As a result
of funding this Center, ACL expects that:
<bullet> More students with I/DD will have more decisional options,
such as Powers of Attorney, supported-decision-making, joint bank
accounts, bill paying services, and medical or educational release
forms, on completion of high school;
<bullet> Fewer young adults with I/DD will be subject to
guardianship;
<bullet> The public will become more knowledgeable of alternatives
to guardianship; and
<bullet> Youth will become more independent by gaining job
experience and personal responsibilities.
This supplement will fund:
<bullet> Support to enhance the engagement of youth advisory board
members, including (1) a dedicated staff member for facilitation and
administrative
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coordination and support and; (2) paid opportunities for youth advisory
board members to be more deeply engaged in project activities.
<bullet> Continued support for two additional staff members from
grant partner Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered who have joined the
youth ambassador training team.
<bullet> Support for travel for youth ambassadors and youth
advisors to participate in conference presentations.
<bullet> Supervisory support for the youth trainer position that
will begin. This youth trainer joined the Youth Ambassador workgroup
and is a part of the training team that facilitates the third cohort of
youth ambassadors from Texas, California, and New York.
<bullet> Continued enhancement to the project website, which
includes a dedicated page for each of the 40+ youth ambassadors, youth-
friendly products and videos, and plain language documents.
The administrative supplement for FY 2024 will amount to $200,000,
bringing the total award for FY 2024 to $500,000.
Program Name: Center for Youth Voice Youth Choice (CYVYC)
Alternatives to Guardianship Youth Resource Center.
Recipient: University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Period of Performance: The supplement award will be issued during
the fifth year of the five-year project period of September 1, 2024,
through August 31, 2025.
Total Supplement Award Amount: $200,000.
Award Type: Cooperative Agreement.
Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 15081(2).
Basis for award: The University of Massachusetts is currently
funded to carry out the CYVYC Project for the period of September 1,
2020 through August 31, 2025. Much work has already been completed and
further tasks are currently being accomplished. It would be
unnecessarily time consuming and disruptive to the CYVYC project and
the beneficiaries being served for ACL to establish a new grantee at
this time when critical services are presently being provided in an
efficient manner.
Dated: September 22, 2024.
Alison Barkoff,
Principal Deputy Administrator for the Administration for Community
Living, performing the delegable duties of the Administrator and the
Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2024-22035 Filed 9-25-24; 8:45 am]
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