PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Administrator can give grants and make contracts with the Center, public agencies, or nonprofit groups for research, demonstration projects, or service programs. These projects can do nine kinds of work, including teaching people how to prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; helping locate and return missing children; creating ID materials for parents and schools; studying and treating the emotional effects on parents and children; collecting data on police practices in missing-child cases; reducing harm from court and police procedures and encouraging family involvement; helping families after a child is recovered; preventing minors from being taken from parents without consent; and running statewide clearinghouses to find missing children. The Administrator must give priority to applicants who can locate and reunite missing children, provide services to missing children or their families, or do research about missing children. Applicants that locate children or provide services should largely use volunteers. First priority goes to those who locate/reunite children or provide services. To get Federal help, applicants must promise to spend, as much as possible, in that fiscal year at least the same amount of State, local, and private funds they got in the previous fiscal year.

Title 34, §11294

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(a)Authority of Administrator; description of research, demonstration projects, and service programs

The Administrator is authorized to make grants to and enter into contracts with the Center and with public agencies or nonprofit private organizations, or combinations thereof, for research, demonstration projects, or service programs designed—

(1)to educate parents, children, schools, school leaders, teachers, State and local educational agencies, homeless shelters and service providers, and community agencies and organizations in ways to prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation of children;

(2)to provide information to assist in the locating and return of missing children;

(3)to aid communities and schools in the collection of materials which would be useful to parents in assisting others in the identification of missing children;

(4)to increase knowledge of and develop effective treatment pertaining to the psychological consequences, on both parents and children, of—

(A)the abduction of a child, both during the period of disappearance and after the child is recovered; and

(B)the sexual exploitation of a missing child;

(5)to collect detailed data from selected States or localities on the actual investigative practices utilized by law enforcement agencies in missing children’s cases;

(6)to address the particular needs of missing children by minimizing the negative impact of judicial and law enforcement procedures on children who are victims of abuse or sexual exploitation and by promoting the active participation of children and their families in cases involving abuse or sexual exploitation of children;

(7)to address the needs of missing children and their families following the recovery of such children;

(8)to reduce the likelihood that individuals under 18 years of age will be removed from the control of such individuals’ parents without such parents’ consent; and

(9)to establish or operate statewide clearinghouses to assist in locating and recovering missing children.

(b)Priorities of grant applicants

In considering grant applications under this subchapter, the Administrator shall give priority to applicants who—

(1)have demonstrated or demonstrate ability in—

(A)locating missing children or locating and reuniting missing children with their parents;

(B)providing other services to missing children or their families; or

(C)conducting research relating to missing children; and

(2)with respect to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1), substantially utilize volunteer assistance.

The Administrator shall give first priority to applicants qualifying under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1).

(c)Non-Federal fund expenditures requisite for receipt of Federal assistance

In order to receive assistance under this subchapter for a fiscal year, applicants shall give assurance that they will expend, to the greatest extent practicable, for such fiscal year an amount of funds (without regard to any funds received under any Federal law) that is not less than the amount of funds they received in the preceding fiscal year from State, local, and private sources.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 5775 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 405 of Pub. L. 93–415 was classified to section 5774 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7286, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4460.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a)(7). Pub. L. 115–267, § 2(d)(1)(A), and Pub. L. 115–393, § 202(d)(1)(A), amended par. (7) identically, striking out “(as defined in section 11292(1)(A) of this title)” after “missing children”. Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 115–267, § 2(d)(1)(B), and Pub. L. 115–393, § 202(d)(1)(B), amended par. (8) identically, substituting “parents” for “legal custodians” and “parents’ ” for “custodians’ ”. Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 115–267, § 2(d)(2), and Pub. L. 115–393, § 202(d)(2), amended subpar. (A) identically, substituting “parents” for “legal custodians”. 2013—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–38, § 2(c)(1), inserted “schools, school leaders, teachers, State and local educational agencies, homeless shelters and service providers,” after “children,”. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 113–38, § 2(c)(2), inserted “and schools” after “communities”. 1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–71 inserted “the Center and with” before “public agencies” in introductory provisions. 1989—Subsec. (a)(9). Pub. L. 101–204 substituted “clearinghouses” for “clearinghouse”. 1988—Subsec. (a)(7) to (9). Pub. L. 100–690, § 7287, added pars. (7) to (9).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–267 effective Oct. 11, 2018, and applicable to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 2018, see section 4 of Pub. L. 115–267, set out as a note under section 11291 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1988 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 100–690 effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 7296(a) of Pub. L. 100–690, set out as a note under section 11101 of this title.

§11294 Grants

Summary

Title 34, §11294

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