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 PUBLIC LAW 99-272—APR. 7, 1986

100 STAT. 295

profit organizations) the activities and services required to carry out the program or programs involved. "(c) In order for a State to receive payments under this section for any fiscal year, the State agency must submit to the Secretary, in such manner and form as the Secretary may prescribe, a description of the program together with satisfactory assurances that the program will be operated in an effective and efficient manner and will otherwise meet the requirements of this section. In the case of payments for fiscal year 1987, such description and assurances must be submitted within 90 days after the Secretary promulgates regulations as required under subsection (i), and in the case of payments for fiscal year 1988, such description and assurances must be submitted prior to January 1, 1988. "(d) In carrying out the purpose described in subsection (a), it shall be the objective of each program established under this section to help the individuals participating in such program to prepare to live independently upon leaving foster care. Such programs may include (subject to the availability of funds) programs to— "(1) enable participants to seek a high school diploma or its equivalent or to take part in appropriate vocational training; "(2) provide training in daily living skills, budgeting, locating and maintaining housing, and career planning; "(3) provide for individual and group counseling; "(4) integrate and coordinate services otherwise available to participants; "(5) provide for the establishment of outreach programs designed to attract individuals who are eligible to participate in the program; "(6) provide each participant a written transitional independent living plan which shall be based on an assessment of his needs, and which shall be incorporated into his case plan, as described in section 475(1); and "(7) provide participants with other services and assistance designed to improve their transition to independent living. "(e)(1) The amount to which a State shall be entitled under section 474(a)(4) for each of the fiscal years 1987 and 1988 shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to $45,000,000 as such State's average number of children receiving foster care maintenance payments under this part in fiscal year 1984 bears to the total of the average number of children receiving such payments under this part for all States for fiscal year 1984. "(2) If any State does not apply for funds under this section for any fiscal year within the time provided in subsection (c), the funds to which such State would have been entitled for such fiscal year shall be reallocated to one or more other States on the basis of their relative need for additional payments under this section (as determined by the Secretary). "(3) Any amounts payable to States under this section shall be in addition to amounts payable to States under subsections (a)(1), (a)(2), and (a)(3) of section 474, and shall supplement and not replace any other funds which may be available for the same general purposes in the localities involved. "(f) Payments made to a State under this section for any fiscal year— "(1) shall be used only for the specific purposes described in this section;

State and local governments.

Education,

42 USC 675.

State and local governments. 42 USC 674.

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