1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to children, youth,
and families; modifying grants to youth intervention
1.3 programs; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2024, section 142A.43.
1.4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes
2024, section 142A.43, is amended to read:
1.6 142A.43 GRANTS-IN-AID
GRANTS TO YOUTH INTERVENTION PROGRAMS.
1.7 Subdivision
1.Grants. (a) The commissioner may must make grants
to nonprofit agencies
1.8 administering youth
intervention programs in communities where the programs are or may
1.9 be established. Grants
under this section are limited to available appropriations. No grant
1.10 may exceed $75,000.
1.11 (b) "Youth
intervention program" means a nonresidential community-based program
1.12 providing advocacy, education,
counseling, mentoring, and referral services to youth and
1.13 their families experiencing
personal, familial, school, legal, or chemical problems with the
1.14 goal of resolving the present
problems and preventing the occurrence of the problems in
1.15 the future. The intent of the
youth intervention program is to provide an ongoing stable
1.16 funding source to
community-based early intervention programs for youth. Program design
1.17 may be different for the
grantees depending on youth service needs of the communities
1.18 being served.
1.19 (c) A grant under this
section is contingent upon the agency obtaining local matching
1.20 money equal to the
amount of the grant from the community in which the youth intervention
1.21 program is established.
The matching requirement is intended to leverage the investment
2.1 of state and community
money in supporting the efforts of the grantees to provide early
2.2 intervention services
to youth and their families.
2.3 Subd. 2.Applications.
Applications for a grant-in-aid shall grant must be made
submitted
2.4 by the administering agency
to the commissioner. The commissioner must provide the
2.5 application form,
procedures for submitting application forms, criteria for review of the
2.6 application, and a
description of the kinds of contributions in addition to cash that qualify
2.7 as local matching
money.
2.8 The grant-in-aid is
contingent upon the agency having obtained from the community in
2.9 which the youth
intervention program is established local matching money equal to the
2.10 amount of the grant that
is sought. The matching requirement is intended to leverage the
2.11 investment of state and
community dollars in supporting the efforts of the grantees to provide
2.12 early intervention
services to youth and their families.
2.13 The commissioner shall
provide the application form, procedures for making application
2.14 form, criteria for
review of the application, and kinds of contributions in addition to cash
2.15 that qualify as local
matching money. No grant to any agency may exceed $75,000.
2.16 Subd. 3.Grant
allocation formula Youth Intervention Programs Association
2.17 grant. Up
to five six percent of the appropriations to the grants-in-aid
to the youth
2.18 intervention program may
appropriation for grants under this section must be used for a
2.19 grant to the Minnesota Youth
Intervention Programs Association for expenses in providing
2.20 collaboration, program
development, professional development training, technical assistance,
2.21 and tracking, and
analyzing, and reporting outcome data for the community-based grantees
2.22 of the program. The Minnesota
Youth Intervention Programs Association is not required
2.23 to meet the match obligation
matching requirement under subdivision 2 1, paragraph (c).
2.24 Subd. 4.Report.
On or before March 31 of each year, the Minnesota Youth Intervention
2.25 Programs Association shall
report to the chairs and ranking minority members of the
2.26 committees and divisions with
jurisdiction over public safety policy and finance children
2.27 and youth on the
implementation, use, and administration of the grant program created
2.28 under this section. The report
shall include information sent by agencies administering youth
2.29 intervention programs to the
Minnesota Youth Intervention Programs Association and the
2.30 Office of Justice
Programs. At a minimum, the report must identify:
2.31 (1) the grant recipients;
2.32 (2) the geographic location of
the grant recipients;
3.1 (3) the total number of
individuals served by all grant recipients, disaggregated by race,
3.2 ethnicity, and gender;
3.3 (4) the total number of
individuals served by all grant recipients who successfully
3.4 completed programming,
disaggregated by age, race, ethnicity, and gender;
3.5 (5) the total amount of money
awarded in grants and the total amount remaining to be
3.6 awarded from each
appropriation;
3.7 (6) the amount of money
granted to each recipient;
3.8 (7) grantee grant
recipient workplan objectives;
3.9 (8) how the grant was used
based on grantee grant recipient quarterly narrative reports
3.10 and financial reports; and
3.11 (9) summarized relevant youth
intervention program outcome survey data measuring
3.12 the developmental assets of
participants, based on Search Institute's Developmental Assets
3.13 Framework.
3.14 Subd. 5.Administrative
costs. The commissioner may use up to ten percent of the
3.15 biennial appropriation
for grants-in-aid to the youth intervention program to pay costs
3.16 incurred by the
department in administering the youth intervention program.
