including volunteers, to participate in programs of preservice or inservice training for professional or nonprofessional personnel, to be conducted by any prime sponsor carrying out a child care and early learning program, or any institution of higher education, including a community college, or by any combination of those prime sponsors or institutions. The financial assistance shall include scholarships and funding for books, transportation, and other comprehensive needs. (b) Prime sponsor technical assistance and planning The Secretary is authorized to, directly or through grant or contract, make technical assistance available to entities who are eligible and seek to become prime sponsors, and to prime sponsors, to assist the entities and prime sponsors in planning, developing, and carrying out child care and early learning programs. (c) Prime sponsor facilities assistance (1) In general The Secretary is authorized to make, directly or through grant or contract, technical assistance and other support available to providers of services through child care and early learning programs, to support the providers in meeting applicable facilities codes, if the providers are— (A) providers in rural areas