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42 U.S.C. § 5116h — Definitions
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For purposes of this subchapter:
(1) **Community referral services** — The term “community referral services” means services provided under contract or through interagency agreements to assist families in obtaining needed information, mutual support and community resources, including respite care services, health and mental health services, employability development and job training, and other social services, including early developmental screening of children, through help lines or other methods.
(2) **Community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect** — The term “community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent child abuse and neglect” includes organizations such as family resource programs, family support programs, voluntary home visiting programs, respite care programs, parenting education, mutual support programs, and other community programs or networks of such programs that provide activities that are designed to prevent or respond to child abuse and neglect.
(3) **Respite care services** — The term “respite care services” means short term care services, including the services of crisis nurseries, provided in the temporary absence of the regular caregiver (parent, other relative, foster parent, adoptive parent, or guardian) to children who—
(A) are in danger of child abuse or neglect;
(B) have experienced child abuse or neglect; or
(C) have disabilities or chronic or terminal illnesses.
Such services shall be provided within or outside the home of the child, be short-term care (ranging from a few hours to a few weeks of time, per year), and be intended to enable the family to stay together and to keep the child living in the home an
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For purposes of this subchapter:
(1) **Community referral services** — The term “community referral services” means services provided under contract or through interagency agreements to assist families in obtaining needed information, mutual support and community resources, including respite care services, health and mental health services, employability development and job training, and other social services, including early developmental screening of children, through help lines or other methods.
(2) **Community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect** — The term “community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent child abuse and neglect” includes organizations such as family resource programs, family support programs, voluntary home visiting programs, respite care programs, parenting education, mutual support programs, and other community programs or networks of such programs that provide activities that are designed to prevent or respond to child abuse and neglect.
(3) **Respite care services** — The term “respite care services” means short term care services, including the services of crisis nurseries, provided in the temporary absence of the regular caregiver (parent, other relative, foster parent, adoptive parent, or guardian) to children who—
(A) are in danger of child abuse or neglect;
(B) have experienced child abuse or neglect; or
(C) have disabilities or chronic or terminal illnesses.
Such services shall be provided within or outside the home of the child, be short-term care (ranging from a few hours to a few weeks of time, per year), and be intended to enable the family to stay together and to keep the child living in the home and community of the child.
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**(a) Establishment** The Secretary of Health and Human Services may establish an office to be known as the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect.
**(b) Purpose** The purpose of the Office established under subsection (a) shall be to execute and coordinate the functions and activities of this subchapter and subchapter III. In the event that such functions and activities are performed by another entity or entities within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Secretary shall ensure that such functions and activities are executed with the necessary expertise and in a fully coordinated manner involving regular intradepartmental and interdepartmental consultation with all agencies involved in child abuse and neglect activities.
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The Secretary may allocate such sums as may be necessary from the amount provided under the State allotment to support the activities of the lead entity in the State—
(1) to create, operate, and maintain a peer review process;
(2) to create, operate, and maintain an information clearinghouse;
(3) to fund a yearly symposium on State system change efforts that result from the operation of the community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities designed to strengthen and support families to prevent child abuse and neglect;
(4) to create, operate, and maintain a computerized communication system between lead entities; and
(5) to fund State-to-State technical assistance through bi-annual conferences.
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There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subchapter $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 5116h
and neglect, and in the design, operation and evalua-
tion of the networks of such community-based and pre-
vention-focused programs’’ for ‘‘evaluation of the
Statewide network of community-based, prevention-fo-
cused, family resource and support programs, and in
the design, operation and evaluation of the individual
community-based family resource and support pro-
grams that are part of the Statewide network funded
under this subchapter’’.
Par. (5). Pub. L. 108–36, § 127(4), substituted ‘‘and pre-
vention-focused programs and activities designed to
strengthen and support families to prevent child abuse
and neglect’’ for ‘‘, prevention-focused, family resource
and support programs’’.
Par. (6). Pub. L. 108–36, § 127(5), substituted ‘‘commu-
nity-based and prevention-focused programs and activi-
ties designed to strengthen and support families to pre-
vent child abuse and neglect’’ for ‘‘Statewide network
of community-based, prevention-focused, family re-
source and support programs’’.
Par. (8). Pub. L. 108–36, § 127(6), substituted ‘‘commu-
nity-based and prevention-focused programs and activi-
ties designed to strengthen and support families to pre-
vent child abuse and neglect’’ for ‘‘community based,
prevention-focused, family resource and support pro-
grams’’.
§ 5116g. National network for community-based
family resource programs
The Secretary may allocate such sums as may
be necessary from the amount provided under
the State allotment to support the activities of
the lead entity in the State—
(1) to create, operate, and maintain a peer
review process;
(2) to create, operate, and maintain an infor-
mation clearinghouse;
(3) to fund a yearly symposium on State sys-
tem change efforts that r
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