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COMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANTS INTRODUCTION Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) are the current version of a program -- Community Action -- which was the centerpiece of the War on Poverty of the 19609.. The Community Action Program (CAP) originally was administered by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OED), a component of the Executive Office of the President. OEO was renamed in 1975
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- -'"‘r’*‘.-.Wna4- . ' ABSTRACT The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program began in FY 1982, re- placing the Community Services Administration (GSA), a former independent executive branch agency. CSA itself had succeeded the Office of Economic Opportunity (OED), a key component of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s. Most of the local antipoverty agencies which operated
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‘OOOOOOIOOOIDOOOOII ERAUTHORIZATIONOOIIOOOOO000000OIOOOOOOIOOOOOOOOOOOCCNOOOIOOOOOOOQOOOIO0000 APPENDIX: STATE ALLOTMENTS or csnc FUNDS, FYs 1983 Ann 1984.........i... 10 16 19
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1.:1L+.IE;/3;3 :Rgmj?'84vG ¥ Q o ”.a'\ O Washington, D.C. #0540 L.TR6Lr -717 57 L0 84-657 Epw Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress NQ PR Q ”§CD E RTY E_ m r arm 6 2r§eAay ‘ Waemrwgstcm University COMMUNITY sznvxczs BLOCK GRANTS Karen Spar Specialist in Social Legislatio Education and Public Welfare Division May 30, 1984 NGER
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found that 17 States in FY 1983 based substate allocations on the relative amount each grantee received from CSA in FY 1981. Another 10 States allocated funds among local grantees according to a straight formula based on the number of poor people in the communities served by the grantee., A combination of these first two methods was used in seven States. In 13 States, lgrantees each received a minimum
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discovered that 19 States used their Departments of Human Resources, Human Services, Social Services or Social and Rehabilitation Services to admin- ister the CSBG at the State level.i Another 16 States operated the CSBG through the State Department of Community Affairs or Economic and Comunity Development. S The Governor's Executive Office was responsible for the CSBG in 10 States, while three States
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,«=.....::a=. ,\_4— ;.__-,_ :74; ——.,-e cas-14 category labeled housing includes information and referral about comunity housing services, homeownership counseling, landlord-tenant relations, default and dis- placement assistance, home maintenance counseling, residential rehabilitation, ,safety code assistance, shelters for the homeless, construction of low-income housing, administration
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Employment $25.2 433,141 (percent of total) (12.8%) (1.62) Education 9 a 11.s 3,456,287 (5.92) (12.9Z) Housing 7 0 1s.3 ' ,76S,4l3 (7.8%) » (2.92) Better Use of Available Income 15.6 L 2,069,041 (7.92) (7.7%) Emergency Assistance 20.4 2,408,978 (10.4%) (9.02) Nutrition 28.9 9,979,727 (14.7%) (37.32) Linkages with Other Programs 80.0 7,612,167 i(40.6Z) (28.52) TOTAL (34 States) i $197.0 26,724,753 (1oo
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, 4 M. r...,; ,,. 4 ,g_._1; , ,. CRS-15 0‘ As for persons served, NGA learned that 11 States in FY 1983 gathered data Q on characteristics of participants, such as age, sex, race and income levels. However, this data was not reported in the NGA survey. The final area examined by NGA was resources generated at the local level by CSBG grantees. Information was gathered from 508 Community Action
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