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§20302. Definitions — Inbound Citations

34 U.S.C. § 20302

Cited by 108 provisions in release 119-102.

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  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall establish and maintain a children’s advocacy program to—
    (1) focus attention on child victims by assisting communities in developing child-focused, community-oriented, facility-based programs designed to improve the resources available to children and families;
    (2) enhance coordination among community agencies and professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases;
    (3) train physicians and other health care and mental health care professionals, law enforcement officers, child protective service workers, forensic interviewers, prosecutors, victim advocates, multidisciplinary team leadership, and children’s advocacy center staff, in the multidisciplinary approach to child abuse so that trained personnel will be available to provide support to community agencies and professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases;
    (4) provide technical assistance, training, coordination, and organizational capacity support for State chapters; and
    (5) collaborate with State chapters to provide training, technical assistance, coordination, organizational capacity support, and oversight of—
    (A) local children’s advocacy centers; and
    (B) communities that want to develop local children’s advocacy centers.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(b)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall—
    (A) establish and maintain regional children’s advocacy program centers; and
    (B) fund existing regional centers with expertise in multidisciplinary team investigation, trauma-informed interventions, and evidence-informed treatment,
    for the purpose of enabling grant recipients to provide information, services, training and technical assistance to aid communities in establishing and maintaining multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(c)(1)
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    (1) Not later than 1 year after November 4, 1992, the Administrator shall solicit proposals for assistance under this section.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(c)(2)
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    (2) In order for a proposal to be selected, the Administrator may require an applicant to have in existence, at the time the proposal is submitted, 1 or more of the following:
    (A) A proven record in conducting activities of the kinds described in subsection (c).
    (B) A facility where children who are victims of sexual or physical abuse and their nonoffending family members can go for the purpose of investigation and intervention in child abuse.
    (C) Multidisciplinary staff experienced in providing evidence-informed services for children and families.
    (D) Experience in serving as a center for training and education and as a resource facility.
    (E) National expertise in providing technical assistance to communities with respect to the multidisciplinary response to child abuse.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(c)(4)(B)
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    (B) The Administrator shall select proposals for funding that—
    (i) best result in developing and establishing multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse by assisting, training, and teaching community agencies and professionals called upon to respond to child abuse cases;
    (ii) assist in resolving problems that may occur during the development, operation, and implementation of a multidisciplinary program that responds to child abuse;
    (iii) to the greatest extent possible and subject to available appropriations, ensure that at least 1 applicant is selected from each of the 4 census regions of the country;
    (iv) best result in supporting chapters in each State; and
    (v) otherwise best carry out the purposes of this section.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(c)(5)
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    (5) From amounts made available in separate appropriation Acts, the Administrator shall provide to each grant recipient the financial and technical assistance and other incentives that are necessary and appropriate to carry out this section.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(d)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall regularly monitor and evaluate the activities of grant recipients and shall determine whether each grant recipient has complied with the original proposal and any modifications.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(d)(2)
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    (2) A grant recipient shall provide an annual report to the Administrator that—
    (A) describes the progress made in satisfying the purpose of the children’s advocacy program; and
    (B) states whether changes are needed and are being made to carry out the purpose of the children’s advocacy program.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(d)(3)
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    (3) Upon discontinuation of funding of a grant recipient under this section, the Administrator shall solicit new proposals in accordance with subsection (c).
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall make grants to—
    (1) establish and maintain a network of care for child abuse victims where investigation, prosecutions, and interventions are continually occurring and coordinating activities within local children’s advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams;
    (2) develop, enhance, and coordinate multidisciplinary child abuse investigations, intervention, and prosecution activities;
    (3) promote the effective delivery of the evidence-based, trauma-informed Children’s Advocacy Center Model and the multidisciplinary response to child abuse; and
    (4) develop and disseminate practice standards for care and best practices in programmatic evaluation, and support State chapter organizational capacity and local children’s advocacy center organizational capacity and operations in order to meet such practice standards and best practices.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(b)
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    (b) The Administrator may make grants to develop and implement specialized programs to identify and provide direct services to victims of a severe form of trafficking (as defined in section 7102(9)(A)1 of title 22) who were under the age of 18 at the time of the offense and victims of human trafficking and child pornography.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(c)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall establish the criteria to be used in evaluating applications for grants under subsections (a) and (b) consistent with sections 11183 and 11186 of this title.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(c)(2)(L)
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    (L) Such other criteria as the Administrator shall establish by regulation.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(d)
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    (d) In awarding grants under this section, the Administrator shall ensure that grants are distributed to all States that are eligible for such grants, including large and small States, and to rural, suburban, and urban jurisdictions.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(f)
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    (f) In awarding grants under this section, the Administrator shall ensure that a portion of the grants is distributed to State chapters to enable State chapters to provide oversight, training, and technical assistance to local centers on evidence-informed initiatives including mental health, counseling, forensic interviewing, multidisciplinary team coordination, and victim advocacy.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20305(a)
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    (a) The Administrator shall make grants to national organizations to provide technical assistance and training to—
    (1) prosecutors and other attorneys and allied professionals instrumental to the criminal prosecution of child abuse cases in State or Federal courts, for the purpose of improving the quality of criminal prosecution of such cases; and
    (2) child abuse professionals instrumental to the protection of children, intervention in child abuse cases, and treatment of victims of child abuse, for the purpose of—
    (A) improving the quality of such protection, intervention, and treatment; and
    (B) promoting the effective delivery of the evidence-informed Children’s Advocacy Center Model and the multidisciplinary response to child abuse, including best practices in programmatic evaluation and financial oversight of Federal funding.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20305(c)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall establish the criteria to be used for evaluating applications for grants under this section, consistent with sections 11183 and 11186 of this title.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(a)
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    (a) All grants awarded by the Administrator under this subchapter shall be subject to the following accountability provisions:
    (A) In this paragraph, the term “unresolved audit finding” means a finding in the final audit report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved within 12 months from the date when the final audit report is issued and any appeal has been completed.
    (B) The Inspector General of the Department of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of grants under this subchapter to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector General shall determine the appropriate number of grantees to be audited each year.
    (C) A recipient of grant funds under this subchapter that is found to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to receive grant funds under this subchapter during the following 2 fiscal years.
    (D) In awarding grants under this subchapter, the Administrator shall give priority to eligible entities that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3 fiscal years prior to submitting an application for a grant under this subchapter.
    (E) If an entity is awarded grant funds under this subchapter during the 2-fiscal-year period in which the entity is barred from receiving grants under paragraph (2), the Administrator shall—
    (i) deposit an amount equal to the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and
    (ii) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was erroneously awarded grant funds.
    (A) For purposes of this paragraph, the term “nonprofit organization” means an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of title 26 and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such title.
    (B) The Administrator may not award a grant under any grant program described in this subchapter to a nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in section 511(a) of title 26.
    (C) Each nonprofit organization that is awarded a grant under this subchapter and uses the procedures prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees and key employees, shall disclose to the Administrator, in the application for the grant, the process for determining such compensation, including the independent persons involved in reviewing and approving such compensation, the comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. Upon request, the Administrator shall make the information disclosed under this subparagraph available for public inspection.
    (A) No amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Justice under this subchapter may be used by the Administrator, or by any individual or organization awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement under this Act, to host or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in Department funds, unless the Deputy Attorney General or such Assistant Attorney Generals, Directors, or principal deputies as the Deputy Attorney General may designate, including the Administrator, provides prior written authorization through an award process or subsequent application that the funds may be expended to host a conference.
    (B) Written approval under subparagraph (A) shall include a written estimate of all costs associated with the conference, including the cost of all food and beverages, audiovisual equipment, honoraria for speakers, and any entertainment.
    (C) The Deputy Attorney General shall submit an annual report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on all approved conference expenditures referenced in this paragraph.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(a)(1)(D)
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    (D) In awarding grants under this subchapter, the Administrator shall give priority to eligible entities that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3 fiscal years prior to submitting an application for a grant under this subchapter.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(a)(1)(E)
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    (E) If an entity is awarded grant funds under this subchapter during the 2-fiscal-year period in which the entity is barred from receiving grants under paragraph (2), the Administrator shall—
    (i) deposit an amount equal to the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and
    (ii) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was erroneously awarded grant funds.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(a)(2)(B)
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    (B) The Administrator may not award a grant under any grant program described in this subchapter to a nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in section 511(a) of title 26.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(a)(2)(C)
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    (C) Each nonprofit organization that is awarded a grant under this subchapter and uses the procedures prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees and key employees, shall disclose to the Administrator, in the application for the grant, the process for determining such compensation, including the independent persons involved in reviewing and approving such compensation, the comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. Upon request, the Administrator shall make the information disclosed under this subparagraph available for public inspection.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(a)(3)(A)
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    (A) No amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Justice under this subchapter may be used by the Administrator, or by any individual or organization awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement under this Act, to host or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in Department funds, unless the Deputy Attorney General or such Assistant Attorney Generals, Directors, or principal deputies as the Deputy Attorney General may designate, including the Administrator, provides prior written authorization through an award process or subsequent application that the funds may be expended to host a conference.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(b)(1)
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    (1) summarizes the efforts of the Administrator to monitor and evaluate the regional children’s advocacy program activities under section 20303(d) of this title;
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20323(a)
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    (a) The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention shall make grants to initiate, sustain, and expand the court-appointed special advocate program.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20323(b)(2)
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    (2) An organization described in paragraph (1)(A) that receives a grant may be authorized to make subgrants and enter into contracts with public and not-for-profit agencies to initiate, sustain, and expand the court-appointed special advocate program. Should a grant be made to a national organization for this purpose, the Administrator shall specify an amount not exceeding 5 percent that can be used for administrative purposes by the national organization.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20323(c)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall establish criteria to be used in evaluating applications for grants under this section, consistent with sections 11183 and 11186 of this title.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20323(c)(3)
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    (3) In awarding grants under this section, the Administrator shall ensure that grants are distributed to localities that have no existing court-appointed special advocate program and to programs in need of expansion.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20323(e)
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    (e) An organization that receives a grant under this section for a fiscal year shall submit to the Administrator a report regarding the use of the grant for the fiscal year, including a discussion of outcome performance measures (which shall be established by the Administrator) to determine the effectiveness of the programs of the organization in meeting the needs of children in the child welfare system.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20331(a)(5)
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    (5) compliance with the Adoption1 and Child Welfare Act of 1980 and overall improvements in the judicial response to abuse and neglect cases can best come about through action by top level court administrators and judges with administrative functions who understand the unique aspects of decisions required in child abuse and neglect cases; and
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20332
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    In order to improve the judicial system’s handling of child abuse and neglect cases, the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention shall make grants for the purpose of providing—
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20333(a)(1)
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    (1) The Administrator shall make grants to national organizations to develop 1 or more model technical assistance and training programs to improve the judicial system’s handling of child abuse and neglect cases.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20333(b)(1)
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    (1) In order to improve the judicial system’s handling of child abuse and neglect cases, the Administrator shall make grants to State courts or judicial administrators for programs that provide or contract for, the implementation of—
    (A) training and technical assistance to judicial personnel and attorneys in juvenile and family courts; and
    (B) administrative reform in juvenile and family courts.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20333(c)
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    (c) The Administrator shall make grants under subsections (a) and (b) consistent with sections 11172, 11183, and 11186 of this title.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20341(b)(1)
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    (1) Physicians, dentists, medical residents or interns, hospital personnel and administrators, nurses, health care practitioners, chiropractors, osteopaths, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, emergency medical technicians, ambulance drivers, undertakers, coroners, medical examiners, alcohol or drug treatment personnel, and persons performing a healing role or practicing the healing arts.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20341(b)(4)
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    (4) Teachers, teacher’s aides or assistants, school counselors and guidance personnel, school officials, and school administrators.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20341(b)(5)
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    (5) Child care workers and administrators.

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  • 34 U.S.C. § 20301(9)
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    (9) State chapters of children’s advocacy center networks are needed to—
    (A) assist local communities in coordinating their multidisciplinary child abuse investigation, prosecution, and intervention services; and
    (B) provide oversight of, and training and technical assistance in, the effective delivery of evidence-informed programming, and operations of centers.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(a)(4)
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    (4) provide technical assistance, training, coordination, and organizational capacity support for State chapters; and
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(a)(5)
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    (5) collaborate with State chapters to provide training, technical assistance, coordination, organizational capacity support, and oversight of—
    (A) local children’s advocacy centers; and
    (B) communities that want to develop local children’s advocacy centers.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20303(b)(2)(A)
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    (A) assist communities, local children’s advocacy centers, multidisciplinary teams, and State chapters—
    (i) in developing and expanding a comprehensive, multidisciplinary response to child abuse that is designed to meet the needs of child victims and their families;
    (ii) in promoting the effective delivery of the evidence-informed Children’s Advocacy Center Model and the multidisciplinary response to child abuse, including best practices in—
    (I) organizational support and development;
    (II) programmatic evaluation; and
    (III) financial oversight of Federal funding;
    (iii) in establishing child-friendly facilities for the investigation and intervention in child abuse;
    (iv) in preventing or reducing trauma to children caused by duplicative contacts with community professionals;
    (v) in providing families with needed services and assisting them in regaining maximum functioning;
    (vi) in maintaining open communication and case coordination among community professionals and agencies involved in child protection efforts;
    (vii) in coordinating and tracking investigative, preventive, prosecutorial, and treatment efforts;
    (viii) in obtaining information useful for criminal and civil proceedings;
    (ix) in holding offenders accountable through improved prosecution of child abuse cases;
    (x) in enhancing professional skills necessary to effectively respond to cases of child abuse through training; and
    (xi) in enhancing community understanding of child abuse; and
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(a)(4)
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    (4) develop and disseminate practice standards for care and best practices in programmatic evaluation, and support State chapter organizational capacity and local children’s advocacy center organizational capacity and operations in order to meet such practice standards and best practices.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(c)(2)(K)
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    (K) Coordination with State chapters to assist and provide oversight, and organizational capacity that supports local children’s advocacy centers, multidisciplinary teams, and communities working to implement a multidisciplinary response to child abuse in the provision of evidence-informed initiatives, including mental health counseling, forensic interviewing, multidisciplinary team coordination, and victim advocacy.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20304(f)
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    (f) In awarding grants under this section, the Administrator shall ensure that a portion of the grants is distributed to State chapters to enable State chapters to provide oversight, training, and technical assistance to local centers on evidence-informed initiatives including mental health, counseling, forensic interviewing, multidisciplinary team coordination, and victim advocacy.
  • 34 U.S.C. § 20307(b)(2)(A)
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    (A) the method by which amounts are allocated to grantees and subgrantees under this subchapter, including to local children’s advocacy centers, State chapters, and regional children’s advocacy program centers; and