The Community Services Block Grant ( CSBG ) provides federal funding for Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and other programs that seek to address poverty at the community level. Like other block grants, CSBG funds are allocated to the states and other jurisdictions (including tribes, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and territories) through a formula, with less federal oversight and fewer federal requirements than categorical grants. The CSBG formula determines each jurisdiction's funding level based on poverty population; once disbursed, most of the money is passed by the states and other jurisdictions to CAAs and other designated organizations to be spent on employment, education, income management, housing, nutrition, emergency services, and health.
8-478: Congress authorized CSBG by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981, P.L. 97-35. President Reagan had requested the consolidation of 85 existing anti-poverty grants into seven categorical grants; Congress agreed to consolidate 77 grants into nine. The nine new block grants were budgeted about 25% less than the programs they replaced (Conlan, qtd. in). The CSBG legislation was amended in 1998 by
16-718: A $ 49 billion budget for 60 programs that target children, youth and families. These programs include assistance with welfare , child support enforcement, adoption assistance, foster care , child care , and child abuse . The agency employs approximately 1,700 staff, including 1,200 federal employees and 500 contractors, where 60% are based in Washington, DC, with the remaining in regional offices located in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City (Missouri), Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle. "The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within
24-630: The 12- through 29-year-old age range". Previous guidelines didn't mention specific ages, and programs focused on preteens and teens. ACF also administers the Community-Based Abstinence Education Program, which is focused on funding public and private entities that provide abstinence-until-marriage education for adolescents from 12 to 18 years old. For fiscal year 2005, 63 grants were awarded, totaling $ 104 million to organizations and other entities; in fiscal 2001, grants totaled only $ 20 million. In October 2006,
32-820: The Coates Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1998, P.L. 105-285. CSBG is administered by the Office of Community Services in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services In fiscal year 2007, the Federal Government, through the Department of Health and Human Services, spent $ 630 million. That amount was $ 654 million for fiscal year 2008. In early 2011, for
40-753: The FY 2012 United States Budget , President Obama proposed $ 350 million in reductions to the Community Service Block Grant Program, cutting its allocation in half. Administration for Children and Families The Administration for Children and Families ( ACF ) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is headed by the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families. It has
48-562: The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides national leadership and creates opportunities for families to lead economically and socially productive lives. ACF's programs are designed to help children to develop into healthy adults and communities to become more prosperous and supportive of their members." ACF's direct predecessor, the Family Support Administration ,
56-641: The economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. ACF programs aim to achieve the following: For fiscal year 2006, ending September 30, 2006, Congress appropriated $ 50 million for state grants for abstinence education programs. Such programs teach that abstaining from sex is the only effective or acceptable method to prevent pregnancy or disease, and give no instruction on birth control or safe sex. In October 2006, revised guidelines by ACF specified that states seeking grants are "to identify groups ... most likely to bear children out-of-wedlock, targeting adolescents and/or adults within
64-630: Was created in 1986 by bringing together six existing major programs within HHS. ACF was created in its present form on April 15, 1991, by merging the Office of Human Development Services, the Family Support Administration, and the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Program. Section 6 of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 provided the legal authority for the reorganization. ACF is responsible for federal programs that promote
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