42 U.S.C. § 3032f: Demonstration, support, and…

Summary

The Assistant Secretary must give grants and sign contracts with eligible groups to run projects that bring older people and younger generations together and involve civic work. These projects must help older people take meaningful roles, build two-way relationships, reduce loneliness, improve older people’s economic well-being, support lifelong learning, and help family caregivers (for example, support for relatives raising children or older volunteers who help families with a child who has a disability). Projects should also coordinate multigenerational activities (including shared meal programs), promote volunteering and mentoring, and make it easier for people to join in. Each grant or contract must last at least 36 months. The money must be used only for these projects, and the Assistant Secretary must choose projects that meet all listed goals. Preference goes to organizations with experience or plans to work locally, serve high-need communities (like low-income minorities, people with limited English, and rural areas), create meaningful roles for older people, or use shared sites such as combined child care and long-term care facilities. States, area agencies on aging, and similar organizations that can hire multigenerational coordinators can apply. The Assistant Secretary must evaluate the projects using data no later than 3 years after March 25, 2020, and send a report to Congress within 6 months after finishing the evaluation. The report must list the projects, describe how they worked, name the organizations, show how older people were recruited and kept as staff or volunteers, give turnover rates, explain how findings will be shared, and suggest any policy changes. Multigenerational activity: interaction between people of different generations. Multigenerational coordinator: a person who helps create roles for older people and supports their relationships with younger people.

Title 42, §3032f

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(a)Grants and contracts

The Assistant Secretary shall award grants to and enter into contracts with eligible organizations to carry out projects, serving individuals in younger generations and older individuals, to—

(1)provide opportunities for older individuals to participate in multigenerational activities and civic engagement activities that contribute to the health and wellness of older individuals and individuals in younger generations by promoting—

(A)meaningful roles for participants;

(B)reciprocity in relationship building;

(C)reduced social isolation and improved participant social connectedness;

(D)improved economic well-being for older individuals;

(E)increased lifelong learning; or

(F)support for caregivers of families by—

(i)providing support for older relative caregivers (as defined in section 3030s(a) of this title) raising children (such as support for kinship navigator programs); or

(ii)involving volunteers who are older individuals who provide support and information to families who have a child with a disability or chronic illness, or other families in need of such family support;

(2)coordinate multigenerational activities and civic engagement activities, including multigenerational nutrition and meal service programs;

(3)promote volunteerism, including by providing opportunities for older individuals to become a mentor to individuals in younger generations; and

(4)facilitate development of, and participation in, multigenerational activities and civic engagement activities.

(b)Grant and contract periods

Each grant awarded and contract entered into under subsection (a) shall be for a period of not less than 36 months.

(c)Use of funds

(1)In general

An eligible organization shall use funds made available under a grant awarded, or a contract entered into, under this section to carry out a project described in subsection (a).

(2)Provision of projects through grantees

In awarding grants and entering into contracts under this section, the Assistant Secretary shall ensure that such grants and contracts are for the projects that satisfy each requirement under paragraphs (1) through (4) of subsection (a).

(d)Preference

In awarding grants and entering into contracts to carry out a project described in subsection (a), the Assistant Secretary shall give preference to—

(1)eligible organizations with a demonstrated record of carrying out, intent to carry out, or intent to partner with local organizations or multiservice organizations to carry out, multigenerational activities or civic engagement activities;

(2)eligible organizations proposing multigenerational activity projects that will serve older individuals and communities with the greatest need (with particular attention to low-income minority individuals, older individuals with limited English proficiency, older individuals residing in rural areas, and low-income minority communities);

(3)eligible organizations proposing civic engagement projects that will serve communities with the greatest need;

(4)eligible organizations with the capacity to develop meaningful roles and assignments that use the time, skills, and experience of older individuals to serve public and nonprofit organizations; and

(5)eligible organizations proposing multigenerational activity projects that utilize shared site programs, such as collocated child care and long-term care facilities.

(e)Application

To be eligible to receive a grant or enter into a contract under subsection (a), an organization shall submit an application to the Assistant Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Assistant Secretary may reasonably require.

(f)Eligible organizations

Organizations eligible to receive a grant or enter into a contract under subsection (a) shall—

(1)be a State, an area agency on aging, or an organization that provides opportunities for older individuals to participate in activities described in such subsection; and

(2)have the capacity to conduct the coordination, promotion, and facilitation described in such subsection through the use of multigenerational coordinators.

(g)Evaluation

(1)In general

Not later than 3 years after March 25, 2020, the Assistant Secretary shall, through data submitted by organizations carrying out projects through grants or contracts under this section, evaluate the activities supported through such grants and contracts to determine—

(A)the effectiveness of such activities;

(B)the impact of such activities on the community being served and the organization providing the activities; and

(C)the impact of such activities on older individuals participating in such projects.

(2)Report to Congress

Not later than 6 months after the Assistant Secretary completes the evaluation under paragraph (1), the Assistant Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate a report that assesses such evaluation and contains, at a minimum—

(A)the names or descriptive titles of the projects funded under subsection (a);

(B)a description of the nature and operation of such projects;

(C)the names and addresses of organizations that conducted such projects;

(D)a description of the methods and success of such projects in recruiting older individuals as employees and as volunteers to participate in the projects;

(E)a description of the success of the projects in retaining older individuals participating in such projects as employees and as volunteers;

(F)the rate of turnover of older individuals who are employees or volunteers in such projects;

(G)a strategy for disseminating the findings resulting from such projects; and

(H)any policy change recommendations relating to such projects.

(h)Definitions

As used in this section: (1) Multigenerational activity

(2)Multigenerational coordinator

The term “multigenerational coordinator” means a person who—

(A)builds the capacity of public and nonprofit organizations to develop meaningful roles and assignments, that use the time, skill, and experience of older individuals to serve those organizations; and

(B)nurtures productive, sustainable working relationships between—

(i)older individuals; and

(ii)individuals in younger generations.

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2020—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(1), amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) related to grants and contracts. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(4), added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c). Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(3), (5), redesignated subsec. (b) as (c) and amended it generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. related to use of funds. Former subsec. (c) redesignated (d). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(3), redesignated subsec. (c) as (d). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (e). Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(6)(A), inserted “, intent to carry out, or intent to partner with local organizations or multiservice organizations to carry out,” after “record of carrying out”. Subsec. (d)(5). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(6)(B)–(D), added par. (5). Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(3), redesignated subsec. (d) as (e). Former subsec. (e) redesignated (f). Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(3), (7), redesignated subsec. (e) as (f) and amended it generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. related to eligible organizations. Former subsec. (f) redesignated (g). Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(3), (7), redesignated subsec. (f) as (g) and amended it generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. related to local evaluation and report. Former subsec. (g) struck out. Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(2), struck out subsec. (g) which related to report to Congress. Subsec. (h)(2)(B)(i). Pub. L. 116–131, § 306(8), substituted “older individuals” for “individuals from the generations with older individuals”. 2016—Subsec. (a)(1)(A). Pub. L. 114–144 substituted “older relative caregivers (as defined in section 3030s of this title)” for “grandparents and other older individuals who are relative caregivers”. 2006—Pub. L. 109–365 amended section generally, substituting provisions relating to demonstration, support, and research projects for multigenerational and civic engagement activities for provisions relating to demonstration projects for multigenerational activities.

§3032f Demonstration, Support, and Research Projects for Multigenerational and Civic Engagement Activities

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Title 42, §3032f

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