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            ``(2) reviewing applications for grants under 2 or more of 
        such parts in a single, consolidated application review 
        process.''.
    (p) Definitions.--The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 
5701 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 386, as amended by 
subsection (l) of this section, the following:

``SEC. 387. DEFINITIONS.

    ``In this title:
            ``(1) Drug abuse education and prevention services.--The 
        term `drug abuse education and prevention services'--
                    ``(A) means services to runaway and homeless youth 
                to prevent or reduce the illicit use of drugs by such 
                youth; and
                    ``(B) may include--
                            ``(i) individual, family, group, and peer 
                        counseling;
                            ``(ii) drop-in services;
                            ``(iii) assistance to runaway and homeless 
                        youth in rural areas (including the development 
                        of community support groups);
                            ``(iv) information and training relating to 
                        the illicit use of drugs by runaway and 
                        homeless youth, to individuals involved in 
                        providing services to such youth; and
                            ``(v) activities to improve the 
                        availability of local drug abuse prevention 
                        services to runaway and homeless youth.
            ``(2) Home-based services.--The term `home-based 
        services'--
                    ``(A) means services provided to youth and their 
                families for the purpose of--
                            ``(i) preventing such youth from running 
                        away, or otherwise becoming separated, from 
                        their families; and
                            ``(ii) assisting runaway youth to return to 
                        their families; and
                    ``(B) includes services that are provided in the 
                residences of families (to the extent practicable), 
                including--
                            ``(i) intensive individual and family 
                        counseling; and
                            ``(ii) training relating to life skills and 
                        parenting.
            ``(3) Homeless youth.--The term `homeless youth' means an 
        individual--
                    ``(A) who is--
                            ``(i) not more than 21 years of age; and
                            ``(ii) for the purposes of part B, not less 
                        than 16 years of age;
                    ``(B) for whom it is not possible to live in a safe 
                environment with a relative; and
                    ``(C) who has no other safe alternative living 
                arrangement.
            ``(4) Street-based services.--The term `street-based 
        services'--
                    ``(A) means services provided to runaway and 
                homeless youth, and street youth, in areas where they 
                congregate, designed to assist such youth in making 
                healthy personal choices regarding where they live and 
                how they behave; and
                    ``(B) may include--
                            ``(i) identification of and outreach to 
                        runaway and homeless youth, and street youth;
                            ``(ii) crisis intervention and counseling;
                            ``(iii) information and referral for 
                        housing;
                            ``(iv) information and referral for 
                        transitional living and health care services;
                            ``(v) advocacy, education, and prevention 
                        services related to--
                                    ``(I) alcohol and drug abuse;
                                    ``(II) sexual exploitation;
                                    ``(III) sexually transmitted 
                                diseases, including human 
                                immunodeficiency virus (HIV); and
                                    ``(IV) physical and sexual assault.
            ``(5) Street youth.--The term `street youth' means an 
        individual who--
                    ``(A) is--
                            ``(i) a runaway youth; or
                            ``(ii) indefinitely or intermittently a 
                        homeless youth; and
                    ``(B) spends a significant amount of time on the 
                street or in other areas that increase the risk to such 
                youth for sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, 
                prostitution, or drug abuse.
            ``(6) Transitional living youth project.--The term 
        `transitional living youth project' means a project that 
        provides shelter and services designed to promote a transition 
        to self-sufficient living and to prevent long-term dependency 
        on social services.
            ``(7) Youth at risk of separation from the family.--The 
        term `youth at risk of separation from the family' means an 
        individual--
                    ``(A) who is less than 18 years of age; and
                    ``(B)(i) who has a history of running away from the 
                family of such individual;
                    ``(ii) whose parent, guardian, or custodian is not 
                willing to provide for the basic needs of such 
                individual; or
                    ``(iii) who is at risk of entering the child 
                welfare system or juvenile justice system as a result 
                of the lack of services available to the family to meet 
                such needs.''.
    (q) Redesignation of Sections.--Sections 371, 372, 381, 382, and 
383 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714b-5851 et 
seq.), as amended by this Act, are redesignated as sections 380, 381, 
382, 383, and 384, respectively.
    (r) Technical Amendments.--The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 
U.S.C. 5701 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 331, in the first sentence, by striking 
        ``With'' and all that follows through ``the Secretary'', and 
        inserting ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) in section 344(a)(1), by striking ``With'' and all that 
        follows through ``the Secretary'', and inserting ``The 
        Secretary''.

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