VETS Stand Down, National Farmworker Jobs Program, and Young Parents SGAs NTR

NOTE TO REVIEWER

Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 through FY 2013 Stand Down Requests

Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Housing Assistance Program

Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications under the Young Parents Demonstration

1225-0086

This is an umbrella request for approval of several grant solicitations under a generic Control Number for U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) grants.

The Grant Program and Their Paperwork Burden:

Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 through FY 2013 Stand Down Grant Requests

This relates to a Veterans’ Employment and Training Service Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) to fund Stand Down events for FY 2011. A Stand Down is an event held in a local community where homeless Veterans are provided with a wide variety of social services. Stand Down funding is a non-competitive grant awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis until available funding is exhausted.

The VETS anticipates that up to $600,000 will be available to award approximately seventy grants in each of the three fiscal years covered by this solicitation. These grant funds must be used to enhance employment and training opportunities or to promote the self-sufficiency of homeless Veterans through paid work.

The DOL expects approximately 50 applications from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application will be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Fifty percent of the applications are expected to be filed electronically.

Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Housing Assistance Program

This relates to an Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Office of Workforce Investment (OWI), Division of Adult Services (DAS), grant competition for operating the Housing Assistance portion of the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), under section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), 29 U.S.C. 2912. Section 167(a) of WIA requires the Secretary to conduct a grants competition every two years for the purpose of carrying out the activities authorized under section 167. This program will enable migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their economic outcomes by allowing them to retain employment or enter into and/or remain in training.

The DOL expects approximately 50 applicants from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application will be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Fifty percent of the applications are expected to be filed electronically.

Notice of Availability of funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications under the Young Parents Demonstration

This relates to an ETA SGA for approximately $5.5 million authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 to support applicants in providing intensive mentoring services to low-income young parents (both mothers and fathers, and expectant parents ages 16 to 24) participating in workforce development programs.

The DOL expects approximately 100 applicants from an equal number of applicants, and the burden per application will be 20 hours with no capital, start-up, maintenance, or operational costs. Sixty percent of the applications are expected to be filed electronically.