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 102 STAT. 4456

PUBLIC LAW 100-690—NOV. 18, 1988 ELIGIBILITY

42 USC 5714-2.

Reports.

Classified information,

"SEC. 322. (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, 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 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 consent of the individual youth and parent or legal guardian to anyone other than an agency compiling statistical records or a government agency involved in the disposition of criminal charges against youth; and

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