FY 2018 Reception and Placement - Sample URM Abstract.doc

FY 2018 URM Affiliate/Sub-office Abstract

***Each Abstract must be limited to 3 pages***

For agencies that hold contracts with states funded through Office of Refugee Resettlement to provide foster care services to unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) from overseas placements.

National Agency

Affiliate Code

Office State

Office City

Office Name

Office Address

If joint site, with which agency or agencies?

Sub-office

Administering affiliate

CASELOAD STATISTICS

(number of individuals) FY 2016 Actual Arrivals

FY 2017 Acknowledged Capacity

FY 2017 Anticipated Arrivals

PROPOSED FY 2018 ARRIVALS

RECENT/PROPOSED CASELOAD

Nationalities served FY 2016 – FY 2017

Proposed nationalities FY 2018

GRIEVANCE AND PROTECTION FROM SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE (PSEA) POLICY

**Instructions: Please number each response and include the question topic in bold. The questions below should not be repeated in your response.

1. Site Rationale: For existing or proposed sites, briefly describe why the community is an optimal location for resettling unaccompanied refugee minors. Include an assessment of the overall community, resettlement services, and linkages for URMs after emancipation. Provide the approximate population of the city or metro area and a description of refugee and other immigrant communities in the area. If the site expects to resettle refugees from nationalities/ethnicities new to the resettlement location, please provide an assessment of the site’s ability to resettle the anticipated new populations.

2. Health Care Access and Refugees with Special Needs: Within the caseload you propose to resettle in FY 2018, list any conditions that, generally speaking, you are unable to accommodate (i.e., medical conditions, special needs, etc). For each type of condition you list, briefly explain this location’s service limitations.

3. Foster Care: Describe how foster care families are selected, trained, and supported.

4. Placement Options: Describe the range of placement options available to minors.

5. Physical Presence: Describe the physical presence requirements in order for guardianship/conservatorship to be established for the minor.

6. Minors Close to 18 Years of Age: Of the capacity proposed for refugee minors from overseas, what is the affiliate’s ability to receive minors within six months of their 18th birthday?

7. Major/Minor Cases: Describe the affiliate’s ability to serve major/minor cases.

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FY 2018 Reception and Placement Program Proposal