§12338 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

§12338 Supportive services

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 127— - COORDINATED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - ESTABLISHMENT OF ADMINISTRATION AND AWARDING OF GRANTS FOR PROGRAMS › Part Part B— - Grants for State and Community Programs for Children, Youth, and Families › § 12338

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commissioner must run a grant program that gives money to states that have named an independent state body under section 12336 and have a coordinated services plan under section 12337. The money is given to the state chief executive to test ways to fill gaps found by state planning and advocacy. Grants fund services that are community-based, coordinated, efficient, and easy to get through things like case planning, case management, intake and assessment, and referrals. The grants can pay for 12 kinds of help for young people, including emergency and stable shelter, transitional housing for homeless youth, physical and mental health care and screenings, child development to get kids ready for school, better education and job training, apprenticeships and work opportunities, community and recreational activities that build self-worth, youth involvement in planning their lives, use of local services, safe temporary homes when youth can’t live with their families, and prevention of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

Title 42, §12338

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(a)The Commissioner shall carry out a program for making grants to a State, that has designated an independent State body under section 12336 of this title and provided for coordinated services under section 12337 of this title, for distribution by the chief executive officer under a State plan approved under section 12337 of this title to demonstrate successful program approaches to fill service gaps identified through State planning and advocacy efforts for any of the areas specified in paragraph (2).

(b)The services eligible to be provided under subsection (a) are services—

(1)that are designed to facilitate the provision of comprehensive community based services that are efficient, coordinated, and readily available through such activities as case planning, case management, intake and assessment, and information and referral; and

(2)that serve any of the following purposes—

(A)provide adequate and safe physical shelter to young individuals and the families of such individuals, especially in emergency circumstances;

(B)provide transitional living services to young individuals who are homeless;

(C)enable young individuals to attain and maintain physical and mental well-being;

(D)provide health screening to detect or prevent illnesses, or both, that occur most frequently in young individuals as well as better treatment and counseling;

(E)enhance the development of children to ensure that such children enter school prepared and ready to learn;

(F)promote the highest quality of educational opportunity, especially through drop-out prevention programs, remediation for young individuals who have dropped out of school, and vocational education;

(G)provide effective training apprenticeships and employment opportunities;

(H)promote participation in community service and civic, cultural, and recreational activities that value young individuals as resources and promote self-esteem and a stake in the community;

(I)promote the participation of young individuals in decisions concerning planning and managing the lives of such individuals;

(J)encourage young individuals and the families of such individuals to use any community facilities and services that are available to such individuals;

(K)ensure that young individuals who are unable to live with the biological families of such individuals have a safe place to live until such individuals can return home or move into independent adult life; and

(L)prevent the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of young individuals.

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Section effective Oct. 1, 1990, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 101–501, set out as an

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of 1990 Amendment note under section 8621 of this title.

§12338 Supportive services

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Title 42, §12338

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