Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 21 — Indian Child Welfare
§ 1932. Grants for off-reservation programs for additional services
Statutory text
The Secretary is also authorized to make grants to Indian organizations to establish and operate off-reservation Indian child and family service programs which may include, but are not limited to—
a system for regulating, maintaining, and supporting Indian foster and adoptive homes, including a subsidy program under which Indian adoptive children may be provided support comparable to that for which they would be eligible as Indian foster children, taking into account the appropriate State standards of support for maintenance and medical needs;
the operation and maintenance of facilities and services for counseling and treatment of Indian families and Indian foster and adoptive children;
family assistance, including homemaker and home counselors, day care, afterschool care, and employment, recreational activities, and respite care; and
guidance, legal representation, and advice to Indian families involved in child custody proceedings.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
Pub. L. 95–608 title II § 202 · 92 Stat. 3069
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1932
(Pub. L. 95–608, title II, § 202, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3076.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–608, title II, § 202, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3076.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 202. The Secretary is also authorized to make grants to Indian organizations to establish and operate off-reservation Indian child and family service programs which may include, but are not limited to— (1) a system for regulating, maintaining, and supporting Indian foster and adoptive homes, including a subsidy program under which Indian adoptive children may be provided support comparable to that for which they would be eligible as Indian foster children, taking into account the appropriate State standards of support for maintenance and medical needs; (2) the operation and maintenance of facilities and services for counseling and treatment of Indian families and Indian foster and adoptive children; (3) family assistance, including homemaker and home counselors, day care, afterschool care, and employment, recreational activities, and respite care; and (4) guidance, legal representation, and advice to Indian families involved in child custody proceedings.
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