Runaway Youth Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Runaway Youth Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to establish local institutions to deal primarily with youth runaways outside the traditional law enforcement juvenile justice system. Requires that grants be made on the basis of the number of runaways in the community and the present availability of services for runaways. States that priority be given to private organizations who have had experience dealing with runaways. Establishes the requirements which runaway houses must meet to be eligible to receive grants: (1) location in an area frequented or reachable by runaways; (2) a maximum capacity of not more than 20; and (3) the development of adequate plans to insure proper contact with the child's parents, safe return of the runaway, and adequate after-care counseling. Provides that each proposed grantee must keep statistical surveys of their clients. Provides that such records shall not be disclosed without parental consent to anyone except another governmental agency compiling statistical records or involved in the disposition of criminal charges against an individual runaway. Requires that a plan must meet the above requirements bef…