§5107 Discretionary programs; authorization of appropriations

Summary

The Health and Human Services Secretary can run or pay for national programs to prevent and treat child abuse and to reform adoption. The Secretary can do this directly, by giving grants to states and public or private nonprofit groups, or by working together with state and local agencies. The work includes running a national center that gathers and shares information about child abuse and neglect and a national adoption information exchange to help place children. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect must keep operating in fiscal years 1982 and 1983, and if the Secretary carries out activities listed in section 5101(b) during those years, they must be done through that Center. A total of $12,000,000 is authorized for each of fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to pay for these activities. Of each year’s funds, at least $2,000,000 must be available to carry out title II of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978.