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[CITE: 42USC5714-2]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 72--JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
 
               SUBCHAPTER III--RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH
 
                Part B--Transitional Living Grant Program
 
Sec. 5714-2. Eligibility

    (a) To be eligible for assistance under this part, an applicant 
shall propose to establish, strengthen, or fund a transitional living 
youth project for homeless youth and shall submit to the Secretary a 
plan in which such applicant agrees, as part of such project--
        (1) to provide, directly or indirectly, shelter (such as group 
    homes, host family homes, and supervised apartments) and services 
    (including information and counseling services in basic life skills 
    which shall include money management, budgeting, consumer education, 
    and use of credit, interpersonal skill building, educational 
    advancement, job attainment skills, and mental and physical health 
    care) to homeless youth;
        (2) to provide such shelter and such services to individual 
    homeless youth throughout a continuous period not to exceed 540 
    days;
        (3) to provide, directly or indirectly, on-site supervision at 
    each shelter facility that is not a family home;
        (4) that such shelter facility used to carry out such project 
    shall have the capacity to accommodate not more than 20 individuals 
    (excluding staff);
        (5) to provide a number of staff sufficient to ensure that all 
    homeless youth participating in such project receive adequate 
    supervision and services;
        (6) to provide a written transitional living plan to each youth 
    based on an assessment of such youth's needs, designed to help the 
    transition from supervised participation in such project to 
    independent living or another appropriate living arrangement;
        (7) to develop an adequate plan to ensure proper referral of 
    homeless youth to social service, law enforcement, educational, 
    vocational, training, welfare, legal service, and health care 
    programs and to help integrate and coordinate such services for 
    youths;
        (8) to provide for the establishment of outreach programs 
    designed to attract individuals who are eligible to participate in 
    the project;
        (9) to submit to the Secretary an annual report that includes 
    information regarding the activities carried out with funds under 
    this part, the achievements of the project under this part carried 
    out by the applicant and statistical summaries describing the number 
    and the characteristics of the homeless youth who participate in 
    such project, and the services provided to such youth by such 
    project, in the year for which the report is submitted;
        (10) to implement such accounting procedures and fiscal control 
    devices as the Secretary may require;
        (11) to submit to the Secretary an annual budget that estimates 
    the itemized costs to be incurred in the year for which the 
    applicant requests a grant under this part;
        (12) to keep adequate statistical records profiling homeless 
    youth which it serves and not to disclose the identity of individual 
    homeless youth in reports or other documents based on such 
    statistical records;
        (13) not to disclose records maintained on individual homeless 
    youth without the informed consent of the individual youth to anyone 
    other than an agency compiling statistical records; and
        (14) to provide to the Secretary such other information as the 
    Secretary may reasonably require.

    (b) In selecting eligible applicants to receive grants under this 
part, the Secretary shall give priority to entities that have experience 
in providing to homeless youth shelter and services of the types 
described in subsection (a)(1) of this section.

(Pub. L. 93-415, title III, Sec. 322, as added Pub. L. 100-690, title 
VII, Sec. 7273(f), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4456; amended Pub. L. 102-
586, Sec. 3(f), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5022; Pub. L. 106-71, Sec. 3(f), 
Oct. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1038.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (a)(9). Pub. L. 106-71 inserted ``, and the services 
provided to such youth by such project,'' after ``participate in such 
project''.
    1992--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 3(f)(1), inserted 
``which shall include money management, budgeting, consumer education, 
and use of credit'' after ``basic life skills''.
    Subsec. (a)(13). Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 3(f)(2), substituted 
``informed consent of the individual youth'' for ``consent of the 
individual youth and parent or legal guardian'' and struck out ``or a 
government agency involved in the disposition of criminal charges 
against youth'' after ``statistical records''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 7296(a) of Pub. L. 100-
690, set out as an Effective Date of 1988 Amendment note under section 
5601 of this title.
