Grant and cooperative agreement awards: University of Hawaii, Center on the Family,

[Federal Register: September 9, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 174)]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

Grant to The University of Hawaii, Center on the Family

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, ACF, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a noncompetitive grant award is being made to the University of Hawaii, Center on the Family, Honolulu, in the amount of $499,821 for a 30-month project. Under the title of ``Financial Strain and Family Resiliency: A Comparison of Welfare and Working Poor Families,'' the project seeks to gain an understanding of the factors that foster resiliency in poor families in the face of severe financial strain. Specifically, this study will examine welfare families defined as those families receiving federally-funded Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and state-funded Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families (TAONF). The project will utilize an ecological systems framework that considers individual, family, and social network qualities as factors that influence family well-being, health, and psychological and work/school adjustment in these financially stressed groups. The project is unique in that it focuses on psychological and behavioral processes, considers family resiliency as well as vulnerability, and includes Asians (i.e., Filipinos) and Pacific Islanders as well as Caucasians.

This project is being funded noncompetitively, because the study will examine a broad range of attitudinal, psychological and family process variables that impact adjustment in several important psychosocial domains. Also, this study promises to provide useful information on how families cope with financial strain in a stragnant economy such as Hawaii which is in its ninth year of an economic recession.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leonard Sternbach, Administration for Children and Families, 50 U.N. Plaza, San Francisco, California 94102, Telephone: (415) 437-7671.

Dated: September 1, 1999. Janet S. Hartnett, Deputy Director, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

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