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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1397. Purposes; authorization of appropriations
For the purposes of consolidating Federal assistance to States
for social services into a single grant, increasing State
flexibility in using social service grants, and encouraging each
State, as far as practicable under the conditions in that State, to
furnish services directed at the goals of -
(1) achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent,
reduce, or eliminate dependency;
(2) achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including
reduction or prevention of dependency;
(3) preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of
children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or
preserving, rehabilitating or reuniting families;
(4) preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by
providing for community-based care, home-based care, or other
forms of less intensive care; and
(5) securing referral or admission for institutional care when
other forms of care are not appropriate, or providing services to
individuals in institutions,
there are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
subchapter.
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