Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part C · Chapter 127 — Coordinated Services for Children, Youth, and Families
§ 12352. “Family resource and support programs” defined
Statutory text
As used in this part, the term “family resource and support programs” means community-based services that offer sustained assistance to families at various stages in their development. Such services shall promote parental competencies and behaviors that will lead to the healthy and positive personal development of parents and children through—
the provision of assistance to build family skills and assist parents in improving their capacities to be supportive and nurturing parents;
the provision of assistance to families to enable such families to use other formal and informal resources and opportunities for assistance that are available within the communities of such families; and
the creation of supportive networks to enhance the childrearing capacity of parents and assist in compensating for the increased social isolation and vulnerability of families.
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.
Family Resource Act
Pub. L. 101–501 title IX § 957 · 104 Stat. 1222
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12352
(Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 957, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1278.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 957, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1278.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 957. DEFINITION. As used in this chapter, the term “family resource and support programs” means community-based services that offer sustainedassistance to families at various stages in their development. Such services shall promote parental competencies and behaviors that will lead to the healthy and positive personal development of parents and children through— (1) the provision of assistance to build family skills and assist parents in improving their capacities to be supportive and nurturing parents; (2) the provision of assistance to families to enable such families to use other formal and informal resources and opportunities for assistance that are available within the communities of such families; and (3) the creation of supportive networks to enhance the childrearing capacity of parents and assist in compensating for the increased social isolation and vulnerability of families.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 101–501, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under section 8621 of this title.