foa-eta-16-05 amendment one.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment & Training Administration

Funding Opportunity Announcement

[FOA-ETA-16-05]

Amendment One

Strengthening Working Families Initiative

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Department of Labor

ACTION: Amendment to FOA-ETA-16-05

SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration announced on December 17, 2015, the availability of approximately $25 million in grant funds for the Strengthening Working Families Initiative Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). This amendment to the FOA announces a Prospective Applicant webinar, amends text in Section IV.B.3, “Project Narrative:

2. System Level Activities” and Section IV.E. “Funding Restrictions.”

The document is hereby amended as follows.

Prospective Applicant Webinar

A pre-recorded Prospective Applicant webinar is available on-line at https://www.workforce3one.org/view/3001602145047371358 and available for viewing. While a review of this webinar is encouraged, it is not mandatory.

Section IV.B.3, “Project Narrative: 2. System Level Activities”

Section IV.B.3, “Project Narrative: 2. System Level Activities,” is amended to clarify the following sentence regarding the cost of child care by adding the text shown in bold:

Old Text:

“Describe a comprehensive plan to identify and map existing systems of services that can meet the needs of parents in education and training with child care and other participant supportive service needs, including a description of how the project will use the fund the costs of child care services and the costs associated with linkages to child care consumer education and referral systems…”

New Text (new language in bold):

“Describe a comprehensive plan to identify and map existing systems of services that can meet the needs of parents in education and training with child care and other participant supportive service needs, including a description of how the project will use the funds to pay the costs of child care services and the costs associated with linkages to child care consumer education and referral systems…” https://www.workforce3one.org/view/3001602145047371358

Section IV.E.7 “Use of Funds for Participant Support Service Costs”

Section IV.E.7 “Use of Funds for Participant Support Service Costs,” is amended to clarify the allowability of costs of individual childcare providers or teachers under this Funding Opportunity Announcement by adding the text shown in bold to the second to last sentence:

Old Text:

Participant Support service costs may include, but are not limited to, provision of the actual supportive service (i.e. child care); providing participants with a voucher for the service (i.e.

public transportation cards or tokens); or providing a stipend directly to the participant.

New Text (new language in bold):

Participant Support service costs may include, but are not limited to, provision of the actual supportive service (i.e. child care, or the wages of an individual childcare provider or teacher); providing participants with a voucher for the service (i.e. public transportation cards or tokens); or providing a stipend directly to the participant.

Section IV.E. “Funding Restrictions

Section IV.E. “Funding Restrictions,” is amended to clarify that costs of construction are not allowable under this Funding Opportunity Announcement by adding the following subsection:

12. Construction

For the purposes of grants awarded under this FOA, construction costs are not allowable cost items.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Elizabeth DeHart, Grants Management Specialist, Office of Grants Management, at dehart.elizabeth@dol.gov.

Signed February 25, 2016 in Washington, D.C. by:

Serena Boyd Grant Officer, Employment & Training Administration mailto:dehart.elizabeth@dol.gov