§12353 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Commissioner must create, by grant or contract, the National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs. The center will collect and share program data, training, and technical help for all kinds of family resource and support programs. It will serve as a national clearinghouse, set up ways to share information (including which program models work best), run training institutes and curricula for staff, choose several existing programs to develop guidance for others, and help build statewide networks for sharing information.

Title 42, §12353

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(a)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)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.

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Amendments

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

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1990, 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.

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

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Title 42, §12353

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