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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
Included in this document are the texts of the Older Americans Act of 1965, the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984, the Older Americans Amendments of 1975, and the Comprehensive Older Americans Act Amendments of 1978. The text of the Older Americans Act of 1965 contains seven titles: (1) Declaration of Objectives and Definitions; (2)…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Federal Legislation, Older Adults
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1988
Hearings were held to: (1) receive "Healthy Children: Investing in the Future," an Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) study on cost-effective strategies for improving the health of mothers and children; and (2) consider reauthorization of the Federal Family Planning Program (FFPP), Title X of the Public Health Service Act. This…
Descriptors: Children, Cost Effectiveness, Family Planning, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This Congressional report is a compilation of the 1985 amendments to the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-113). Included in the report are amendments to the following parts of the act: Title I (national volunteer antipoverty programs, including Volunteers in Service to America, service-learning programs, and special volunteer…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Financial Support, National Programs, Older Adults
Gross, Bruce; Winett, Sheila G. – 1979
The standards presented here, a revision of the standards published in 1975, are intended to serve as uniform, national criteria by which public agencies can develop and assess the adequacy of their foster family services system. Major changes from the earlier standards include reduction of the number of standards, combination of the basic and…
Descriptors: Administration, Caseworker Approach, Certification, Child Advocacy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
This document comprises the testimonies presented at this hearing and related documents. A new study on trends in family income in the United States from 1970 to 1986, prepared in the Congressional Budget Office, is included, as is a fact sheet on children and families in poverty. Millions of children and families have been left out of the…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Advocacy, Day Care, Economically Disadvantaged