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PUBLIC LAW 93-422-SEPT. 21, 1974

"(c) I t is further the purpose of this Act to provide leadership to schools and other institutions in the community by supporting projects to identify, evaluate, demonstrate, and disseminate effective strategies for prevention and early intervention and to provide training and technical assistance to schools and other segments of the community in adapting such strategies to identified local needs." (c) Section 3 of such Act is amended to read as follows:

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21 USC 1002.

"ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE EDUCATION PROJECTS

"SEC. 3. (a) The Commissioner of Education shall carry out a Grants and program of making grants to, and contracts with institutions of ^ higher education. State and local educational agencies, and public and private education or community agencies, institutions, and organizations to support and evaluate demonstration projects, to encourage the establishment of such projects throughout the Nation, to train educational and community pereonnel, and to provide technical assistance in program development. I n carrying out such program, the Commissioner of Education shall give priority to school based programs and projects. "(b) Funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this Act shall be available for activities, including bilingual activities, such as— "(1) projects for the development, testing, evaluation, and dissemination of exemplary materials for use in elementary, secondary, adult, and community education programs, and for training in the selection and use of such materials; "(2) comprehensive demonstration programs which focus on the causes of drug and alcohol abuse rather than on the symptoms; which include both schools and the communities within which the schools are located; which emphasizes the affective as well as the cognitive approach; which reflect the specialized needs of communities; and which include, in planning and development, school personnel, the target population, community representation, and parents; "(3) creative primary prevention and early intervention programs in schools, utilizing an interdisciplinary 'school team' approach, developing in educational personnel and students skills in planning and conducting comprehensive prevention programs which include such activities as training drug and alcohol education specialists and group leaders, peer group and individual counseling, and student involvement in intellectual, cultural, and social alternatives to drug and alcohol abuse; "(4) preservice and inservice training programs on drug and Training proalcohol abuse prevention for teachers, counselors, and other edu- grams. cational personnel, law enforcement officials, and other public service and community leaders and personnel; "(6) community education programs on drug and alcohol abuse, especially for parents and others in the community; " (6) programs or projects to recruit, train, organize, and employ professionals and other persons, including former drug and alcohol abusers and former drug- and alcohol-dependent persons, to organize and participate in programs of public education in drug and alcohol abuse; and

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