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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part C · Chapter 127 — Coordinated Services for Children, Youth, and Families

§ 12353. Establishment of National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs

Statutory text

(a)

Establishment

The Commissioner shall establish, through grant or contract, a national center for the collection and provision of programmatic information and technical assistance that relates to all types of family resource and support programs, to be known as the “National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs”.

(b)

Functions

The national center established under subsection (a) shall serve as a national information and data clearinghouse, training, technical assistance, and material development source for family resource and support programs. Such center shall—

(1)

develop and maintain a system for disseminating information on all types of family resource and support programs and on the state of family resource and support program development, including information concerning the most effective model programs;

(2)

develop and sponsor a variety of training institutes and curricula for family resource and support program staff;

(3)

identify several programs representing the various types of family resource and support programs to develop technical assistance materials and activities to assist other agencies in establishing family resource and support programs; and

(4)

develop State-wide networks of family resource and support programs for the purpose of sharing and disseminating information.

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.

  1. Family Resource Act

    Pub. L. 101–501 title IX § 958 · 104 Stat. 1222

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12353

    Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 958, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1279

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 958, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1279

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 958. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL CENTER ON FAMILY RESOURCE AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS. (a) Establishment.— The Commissioner shall establish, through Grant programs. Government contracts. grant or contract, a national center for the collection and provision of programmatic information and technical assistance that relates to all types of family resource and support programs, to be known as the “National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs”. (b) Functions.— The national center established under subsection (a) shall serve as a national information and data clearinghouse, training, technical assistance, and material development source for family resource and support programs. Such center shall— (1) develop and maintain a system for disseminating information on all types of family resource and support programs and on the state of family resource and support program development, including information concerning the most effective model programs; (2) develop and sponsor a variety of training institutes and curricula for family resource and support program staff; (3) identify several model programs representing the various types of family resource and support programs to develop technical assistance materials and activities to assist other agencies in establishing family resource and support programs; and (4) develop State-wide networks of family resource and support programs for the purpose of sharing and disseminating information.

  2. Human Services Amendments of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–252 title IV § 403(a) · 108 Stat. 623

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 12353(b)(3)

    Pub. L. 103–252 substituted “several programs” for “several model programs”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 103–252 substituted “several programs” for “several model programs”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) National Center.— Section 958(b)(3) of the Claude Pepper Young Americans Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12353(b)(3)) is amended by striking “model”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 103–252 substituted “several programs” for “several model programs”.

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.

Credits

1990–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1990Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 958, , 104 Stat. 1279
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–252, title IV, § 403(a), , 108 Stat. 673.
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(Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 958, , 104 Stat. 1279; Pub. L. 103–252, title IV, § 403(a), , 108 Stat. 673.)

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