Illinois Administrative Code
Title 47 - HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Part 120 - STATE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
Section 120.10 - Legislative Base
Universal Citation: 47 IL Admin Code ยง 120.10
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Federal
1) On July 31, 1981, Congress passed
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 ( Public Law 97-35 ). This Act
established 7 block grant programs, including the Community Services Block
Grant. These block grants replace a large number of programs previously
administered by the Federal Government. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
also transferred primary responsibility for the administration of the block
grant programs to the states and conferred substantial discretion on the states
as to use of the block grant funds.
2) The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG)
Act (Act) was enacted as Subtitle B of Title VI of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act (Sections 671-683) and replaced the following programs
formerly administered by the Community Services Administration under the
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (
42 USC
2701 et seq.):
A) Community Action/Local
Initiative
B) Senior Opportunities
and Services
C) Community Food and
Nutrition
3) The Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act authorized to be appropriated $389,375,000 for fiscal
year 1982 and such sums as may be determined by Congress for the succeeding
fiscal years to carry out the provisions of that Act.
4) States were eligible to receive funds
under the Community Services Block Grant on October 1, 1981.
b) State
1) On September 9, 1981, the Governor
officially requested the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human
Services to delegate to the State responsibility for administering the
Community Services Block Grant Program in Illinois. At this time, he also
designated the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs as the
agency to administer the program for the State. On September 29, 1981, the
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs submitted the application document
consisting of the assurances and plan required under Section 675 of the law,
and the pre-expenditure report for fiscal year 1982 as required by Section
1742(a).
2) The State must hold at
least one legislative hearing every three years in conjunction with the
development of the State Plan ( 42 USC 99087(a)(3) ).
3) As part of its application, the State
certified that it agreed to use funds available under the Community Services
Block Grant:
A) to support activities that are
designed to assist low-income families and individuals, including families and
individuals receiving assistance under Part A of Title IV of the Social
Security Act (
42 USC
601 et seq.), homeless families and
individuals, migrant or seasonal farmworkers, and elderly low-income
individuals and families, and a description of how such activities will enable
the families and individuals:
i) to remove
obstacles and solve problems that block the achievement of self-sufficiency
(including self-sufficiency for families and individuals who are attempting to
transition off a State program carried out under Part A of Title IV of the
Social Security Act);
ii) to secure
and retain meaningful employment;
iii) to attain an adequate education, with
particular attention toward improving literacy skills of the low-income
families in the communities involved, which may include carrying out family
literacy initiatives;
iv) to make
better use of available income;
v)
to obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living
environment;
vi) to obtain
emergency assistance through loans, grants, or other means to meet immediate
and urgent family and individual needs; and
vii) to achieve greater participation in the
affairs of the communities involved, including the development of public and
private grassroots partnerships with local law enforcement agencies, local
housing authorities, private foundations, and other public and private partners
to: document best practices based on successful grassroots intervention in
urban areas, to develop methodologies for widespread replication; and
strengthen and improve relationships with local law enforcement agencies, which
may include participation in activities such as neighborhood or community
policing efforts;
B) to
address the needs of youth in low-income communities through youth development
programs that support the primary role of the family, give priority to the
prevention of youth problems and crime, and promote increased community
coordination and collaboration in meeting the needs of youth, and support
development and expansion of innovative community-based youth development
programs that have demonstrated success in preventing or reducing youth crime,
such as:
i) programs for the establishment of
violence-free zones that would involve youth development and intervention youth
mediation, youth mentoring, life skills training, job creation, and
entrepreneurship programs; and
ii)
after-school child care programs;
C) to make more effective use of, and to
coordinate with, other programs related to the purposes of the federal statute
(including State welfare reform efforts) (
42 USC
9908(b)(1)(A)-(C)
);
D) to provide on an emergency
basis for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious foodstuffs,
and related services, as may be necessary to counteract conditions of
starvation and malnutrition among the poor;
E) to coordinate and establish linkages
between governmental and other social services programs in order to assure the
effective delivery of such services to low-income individuals; and
F) to encourage the use of private sector
entities of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the
community.
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