42 U.S.C. § 15081 — Purpose

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This part funds grants, contracts, and agreements for nationally significant developmental-disabilities projects. These projects must help people with developmental disabilities join community life fully. They also support family-backed policies and cover activities like data collection, technical assistance, youth transition, and housing.

This section states the purpose of this part: giving grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for nationally significant projects. These projects must do two things. (1) Create chances for people with developmental disabilities to fully take part in and contribute to community life. (2) Support national and State policies — backed by families, guardians, advocates, and communities — that promote self-determination, independence, productivity, and inclusion for people with developmental disabilities. This happens through: (A) Family support activities. (B) Collecting and analyzing data. (C) Technical assistance to entities funded under parts B and D, within the funding limits in sections 15029(b), 15066(a)(3), and 15083(c). (D) Other large-enough projects that could expand or improve opportunities, including: (i) technical assistance for building information and referral systems; (ii) technical assistance for self-advocacy organizations; (iii) education for policymakers; (iv) federal interagency initiatives; (v) projects that boost participation by racial and ethnic minorities in public and private developmental-disabilities work; (vi) help for youth with developmental disabilities transitioning from school to adult life, including finding jobs, going to college, and updating assistive technology; (vii) building and training people on community quality-assurance systems; (viii) addressing the needs of aging people with developmental disabilities and their aging caregivers; (ix) increasing access to general community services, organizations, and economic development; (x) creating more living options; (xi) addressing challenging behaviors, including promoting alternatives to restraints and seclusion; and (xii) addressing other emerging needs.

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The purpose of this part is to provide grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for projects of national significance that—

(1)

create opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities to directly and fully contribute to, and participate in, all facets of community life; and

(2)

support the development of national and State policies that reinforce and promote, with the support of families, guardians, advocates, and communities, of individuals with developmental disabilities, the self-determination, independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion in all facets of community life of such individuals through—

(A)

family support activities;

(B)

data collection and analysis;

(C)

technical assistance to entities funded under parts B and D, subject to the limitations described in sections 15029(b), 15066(a)(3), and 15083(c) of this title; and

(D)

other projects of sufficient size and scope that hold promise to expand or improve opportunities for such individuals, including—

(i)

projects that provide technical assistance for the development of information and referral systems;

(ii)

projects that provide technical assistance to self-advocacy organizations of individuals with developmental disabilities;

(iii)

projects that provide education for policymakers;

(iv)

Federal interagency initiatives;

(v)

projects that enhance the participation of racial and ethnic minorities in public and private sector initiatives in developmental disabilities;

(vi)

projects that provide aid to transition youth with developmental disabilities from school to adult life, especially in finding employment and postsecondary education opportunities and in upgrading and changing any assistive technology devices that may be needed as a youth matures;

(vii)

initiatives that address the development of community quality assurance systems and the training related to the development, implementation, and evaluation of such systems, including training of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families;

(viii)

initiatives that address the needs of aging individuals with developmental disabilities and aging caregivers of adults with developmental disabilities in the community;

(ix)

initiatives that create greater access to and use of generic services systems, community organizations, and associations, and initiatives that assist in community economic development;

(x)

initiatives that create access to increased living options;

(xi)

initiatives that address the challenging behaviors of individuals with developmental disabilities, including initiatives that promote positive alternatives to the use of restraints and seclusion; and

(xii)

initiatives that address other areas of emerging need.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 106–402, title I, § 161, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1725.)

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2000Enacted · Pub. L. 106-402 · 114 Stat. 1725

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