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12727
. All activities of the California Community Services Block
Grant Program eligible entities shall have the following basic and
specific purposes:
(a) The basic purpose of this chapter is to stimulate an effective
concentration of all available local, state, private, and federal
resources upon the goal of enabling low-income families, and
low-income individuals of all ages, in rural and urban areas to
attain the skills, knowledge, and motivations and to secure the
opportunities needed for them to become fully self-sufficient.
(b) The specific purposes of this chapter are to promote, as
methods of achieving an effective concentration of resources on the
goal of individual and family self-sufficiency, the following:
(1) The strengthening of community capabilities for planning and
coordinating federal, state, private, and other assistance related to
the elimination of poverty, so that this assistance, through the
efforts of local officials, organizations, and interested and
affected citizens, can be made more responsive to local needs and
conditions.
(2) The coherent organization of a range of services related to
the needs of the poor, so that these services may be made more
effective and efficient in helping families and individuals to
overcome poverty-related problems in a way that takes into account,
and supports, their progress in overcoming identified causes of
poverty.
(3) The implementation, subject to adequate evaluation, of new
types of services and innovative approaches toward eliminating causes
of poverty, so as to develop increasingly effective methods of
employing available resources.
(4) Maximum feasible participation of members of the groups and
residents of the low-income areas to be served by programs and
projects in the development and implementation of those programs and
projects, in order to assure that all programs and projects are
meaningful to, and widely utilized by, their intended beneficiaries.
(5) The broadening of the resource base directed towards the
elimination of poverty, so as to secure, in addition to the services
and assistance of public officials, private religious, charitable,
and neighborhood organizations, and individual citizens, a more
active role for business, labor, and professional groups able to
provide employment opportunities or otherwise influence the quantity
and quality of services of concern to the poor.
(c) It is the finding of the Legislature that these state purposes
and the intent of the federal Community Services Block Grant will
best be served by enacting the program policies and requirements
contained in this chapter.