PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to become independent, productive, integrated and included into their communities. Funding under these programs is to assist States in the development of a plan for a comprehensive and coordinated system of services and other activities to enhance the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to their maximum potential, and to support a system which protects the legal and human rights of individuals with developmental disabilities.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Handicapped Education;
- Libraries and Technical Information Services;
2. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Program Development;
- Facilities, Planning, Construction, and Equipment;
3. HEALTH;
- Facility Planning and Construction;
- Mental Health;
- Program Development;
4. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Disabled and Handicapped Services;
- Families and Child Welfare Services;
- Legal and Advocacy Services;
- Prevention;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Individual/Family;
- Handicapped;
- Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease);
- Mentally Disabled;

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);