Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 3.djvu/444

 92 STAT. 3076

42 USC 620, 1397.

Additional services.

25 USC 1932.

Funds. 25 USC 1933.

PUBLIC LAW 95-608—NOV. 8, 1978 (3) family assistance, including homemaker and home counselors, day care, afterschool care, and employment, recreational activities, and respite care; (4) home improvement programs; (5) the employment of professional and other trained personnel to assist the tribal court in the disposition of domestic relations and child welfare matters; (6) education and training of Indians, including tribal court judges and staff, in skills relating to child and family assistance and service programs; (7) a subsidy program under which Indian adoptive children may be provided support comparable to that for which they would be eligible as foster children, taking into account the appropriate State standards of support for mamtenance and medical needs; and (8) guidance, legal representation, and advice to Indian families involved in tribal, State, or Federal child custody proceedings. (b) Funds appropriated for use by the Secretary in accordance with this section may be utilized as non-Federal matching share in connection with funds provided under titles IV-B and X X of the Social Security Act or under any other Federal financial assistance programs which contribute to the purpose for which such funds are authorized to be appropriated for use under this Act. The provision or possibility of assistance under this Act shall not be a basis for the denial or reduction of any assistance otherwise authorized under titles IV-B and X X of the Social Security Act or any other federally assisted program. For purposes of qualifying for assistance under a federally assisted program, licensing or approval of foster or adoptive homes or institutions by an Indian tribe shall be deemed equivalent to licensing or approval by a State. SEC. 202. The Secretary is also authorized to make grants to Indian organizations to establish and operate off-reservation Indian child and family service programs which may include, but are not limited to— (1) a system for regulating, maintaining, and supporting Indian foster and adoptive homes, including a subsidy program under which Indian adoptive children may be provided support comparable to that for which they would be eligible as Indian foster children, taking into account the appropriate State standards of support for maintenance and medical needs; (2) the operation and maintenance of facilities and services for counseling and treatment of Indian families and Indian foster and adoptive children; (3) family assistance, including homemaker and home counselors, day care, afterschool care, and employment, recreational activities, and respite care; and (4) guidance, legal representation, and advice to Indian families involved in child custody proceedings. SEC. 203. (a) In the establishment, operation, and funding of Indian child and family service programs, both on and off reservation, the Secretary may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the latter Secretary is hereby authorized for such purposes to use funds appropriated for similar programs of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Provided, That authority to make payments pursuant to such agreements shall be effective only to the extent and in such amounts as may be provided in advance by appropriation Acts.

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