PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide assistance to States and local
communities, working through a network of community action agencies and
other neighborhood-based organizations, for the reduction of poverty,
the revitalization of low-income communities, and the empowerment of
low-income families and individuals in rural and urban areas to become
fully self-sufficient (particularly families who are attempting to
transition off a State program carried out under part A of title IV of
the Social Security Act) and (1) To provide services and activities
having a measurable and potential major impact on causes of poverty in
the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a
particularly acute problem; (2) to provide activities designed to
assist low-income participants, including the elderly poor, to: (a)
secure and retain meaningful employment; (b) attain an adequate
education; (c) make better use of available income; (d) obtain and
maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (e) obtain
emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and
urgent individual and family needs, including health services,
nutritious food, housing, and employment-related assistance; (f) remove
obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of
self-sufficiency; (g) achieve greater participation in the affairs of
the community; and (h) make more effective use of other related
programs; (3) to provide on an emergency basis for the provision of
such supplies and services, nutritious foodstuffs, and related
services, as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation
and malnutrition among the poor; (4) to coordinate and establish
linkages between governmental and other social services programs to
assure the effective delivery of such services to low-income
individuals; and (5) to encourage the use of entities in the private
sector of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the
community.
ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Planning and Research;
- Technical Assistance and Services;
2. EDUCATION;
- Vocational Development;
3. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Job Training, Employment;
- Assistance and Services for the Unemployed;
- Assistance to State and Local Governments;
4. FOOD AND NUTRITION;
- Food and Nutrition for Individual and Families;
5. HEALTH;
- General Health and Medical;
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Individual/Family;
- Unemployed;
- Low Income;
- Senior Citizen (60+);
WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments;
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