Sec.17-470-7. Program priorities

The priorities of a Community Action Program may include, but not be limited to, component projects designed to assist eligible participants, including the elderly poor, in attaining the following objectives:

(1) To secure and retain meaningful employment;

(2) To obtain adequate education;

(3) To provide for education and care of young children;

(4) To make better use of available income;

(5) To provide and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (6) To provide information and education, and access to healthful nutrition;

(7) To obtain services for the prevention of and rehabilitation from drug abuse and alcoholism;

(8) To obtain emergency assistance to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing, energy and unemployment-related assistance;

(9) To remove obstacles and solve personal and family problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency;

(10) To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community;

(11) To make more frequent and effective use of other programs related to the purposes of Chapter 311 of the Connecticut General Statutes; and

(12) To stimulate and take full advantage of capabilities for self-advancement.

(Effective March 5, 1986)