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[CITE: 42USC5714-23]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 72--JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
 
               SUBCHAPTER III--RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH
 
     Part D--Coordinating, Training, Research, and Other Activities
 
Sec. 5714-23. Authority to make grants for research, evaluation, 
        demonstration, and service projects
        

(a) Authorization; purposes

    The Secretary may make grants to States, localities, and private 
entities (and combinations of such entities) to carry out research, 
evaluation, demonstration, and service projects designed to increase 
knowledge concerning, and to improve services for, runaway youth and 
homeless youth.

(b) Selection factors; special consideration

    In selecting among applications for grants under subsection (a) of 
this section, the Secretary shall give special consideration to proposed 
projects relating to--
        (1) youth who repeatedly leave and remain away from their homes;
        (2) transportation of runaway youth and homeless youth in 
    connection with services authorized to be provided under this 
    subchapter;
        (3) the special needs of runaway youth and homeless youth 
    programs in rural areas;
        (4) the special needs of programs that place runaway youth and 
    homeless youth in host family homes;
        (5) staff training in--
            (A) the behavioral and emotional effects of sexual abuse and 
        assault;
            (B) responding to youth who are showing effects of sexual 
        abuse and assault; and
            (C) agency-wide strategies for working with runaway and 
        homeless youth who have been sexually victimized;

        (6) innovative methods of developing resources that enhance the 
    establishment or operation of runaway and homeless youth centers;
        (7) training for runaway youth and homeless youth, and staff 
    training, related to preventing and obtaining treatment for 
    infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV);
        (8) increasing access to health care (including mental health 
    care) for runaway youth and homeless youth; and
        (9) increasing access to education for runaway youth and 
    homeless youth.

(c) Priority

    In selecting among applicants for grants under subsection (a) of 
this section, the Secretary shall give priority to applicants who have 
experience working with runaway youth or homeless youth.

(Pub. L. 93-415, title III, Sec. 343, as added Pub. L. 102-586, 
Sec. 3(g)(1)(C), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5023; amended Pub. L. 106-71, 
Sec. 3(h), Oct. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1038.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Pub. L. 106-71, Sec. 3(h)(1), inserted ``evaluation,'' after 
``research,'' in section catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-71, Sec. 3(h)(2), inserted ``evaluation,'' 
after ``research,''.
    Subsec. (b)(2) to (10). Pub. L. 106-71, Sec. 3(h)(3), redesignated 
pars. (3) to (10) as (2) to (9), respectively, and struck out former 
par. (2) which read as follows: ``home-based and street-based services 
for, and outreach to, runaway youth and homeless youth;''.
