; or (v) any other evidence-based activities identified by the eligible entity or employer partners as necessary to support the development or implementation of such career pathway program. (C) Providing career planning to support the identification of advancement opportunities and career pathways for direct care workers, in coordination with employers, in the State or region to be served by the grant. (D) Providing wages (or other compensation or benefits), supportive services, mentoring, or other career supports to direct care workers (or individuals training to be such workers), which provided alone, or in combination with any of the activities listed in this paragraph, facilitates the recruitment, retention, or advancement of such workers. (E) Any other activity that the Secretary determines appropriate for implementing a strategy for the recruitment, retention, or advancement of direct care workers. (3) Continuation of existing strategies An eligible entity receiving a grant under this Act may use such grant to continue to implement a strategy for the recruitment, retention, or advancement of direct care workers, if such a strategy was being implemented by an eligible entity as of the first day on which the grant program under this Act is announced in the Federal Register. (b) Administrative costs Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this Act may not use more than 7 percent of the funds of such grant for costs associated with the administration of the strategies implemented using the grant, and the evaluations and reports of such strategies under section 7. (c) Supplement, not supplant An eligible entity receiving a grant under this Act shall use such grant only to supplement, and not supplant, the amount of funds that, in the absence of such grant, would be available for the recruitment, retention, or advancement of direct care workers in the State or region served by the grant. 7. Evaluations and reports (a) Eligible entities (1) In general Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this Act