GRANTS FOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.

SEC. 106. GRANTS FOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS. Section 106 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 5106) is amended— (1) in the section heading, by striking “OR SERVICE”; (2) in subsection (a), to read as follows: “(a) Demonstration Programs and Projects.— The Secretary may make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public agencies or private nonprofit agencies or organizations (or combinations of such agencies or organizations) for time limited, demonstration programs and projects for the following purposes: 110 STAT. 3070 “(1) Training programs.— The Secretary may award grants to public or private nonprofit organizations under this section— “(A) for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel in the fields of medicine, law, education, social work, and other relevant fields who are engaged in, or intend to work in, the field of prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect, including the links between domestic violence and child abuse; “(B) to improve the recruitment, selection, and training of volunteers serving in public and private nonprofit children, youth and family service organizations in order to prevent child abuse and neglect through collaborative analysis of current recruitment, selection, and training programs and development of model programs for dissemination and replication nationally; and “(C) for the establishment of resource centers for the purpose of providing information and training to professionals working in the field of child abuse and neglect. “(2) Mutual support programs.— The Secretary may award grants to private nonprofit organizations (such as Parents Anonymous) to establish or maintain a national network of mutual support and self-help programs as a means of strengthening families in partnership with their communities. “(3) Other innovative programs and projects.— “(A) In general.— The Secretary may award grants to public and private nonprofit agencies that demonstrate innovation in responding to reports of child abuse and neglect including programs of collaborative partnerships between the State child protective services agency, community social service agencies and family support programs, schools, churches and synagogues, and other community agencies to allow for the establishment of a triage system that— “(i) accepts, screens and assesses reports received to determine which such reports require an intensive intervention and which require voluntary referral to another agency, program or project; “(ii) provides, either directly or through referral, a variety of community-linked services to assist families in preventing child abuse and neglect; and “(iii) provides further investigation and intensive intervention where the child’s safety is in jeopardy. “(B) Kinship care.— The Secretary may award grants to public and private nonprofit entities in not more than 10 States to assist such entities in developing or implementing procedures using adult relatives as the preferred placement for children removed from their home, where such relatives are determined to be capable of providing a safe nurturing environment for the child and where such relatives comply with the State child protection standards. “(C) Promotion of safe, family-friendly physical environments for visitation and exchange.— The Secretary may award grants to entities to assist such entities in establishing and operating safe, family-friendly physical environments— 110 STAT. 3071 “(i) for court-ordered supervised visitation between children and abusing parents; and “(ii) to safely facilitate the exchange of children for visits with noncustodian parents in cases of domestic violence.”; (3) by striking subsection (b); (4) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b); (5) in subsection (b) (as redesignated)— (A) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2); and (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (7) as Saragraphs (1) through (5), respectively; and (6) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(c) Evaluation.— In making grants for demonstration projects under this section, the Secretary shall require all such projects to be evaluated for their effectiveness. Funding for such evaluations shall be provided either as a stated percentage of a demonstration grant or as a separate grant entered into by the Secretary for the purpose of evaluating a particular demonstration project or group of projects.”.