PUBLIC LAW 104-235—OCT. 3, 1996
110 STAT. 3081
description of current services required under section 205(a)(3)
as an unmet need, and integrated with the network of community-based family resource and support program to the extent
practicable given funding levels and community priorities;
"(4) maximizing funding for the fingmcing, planning,
community mobilization, collaboration, assessment, information
and referral, startup, training and technical assistance,
information management, reporting and evaluation costs for
establishing, operating, or expanding a Statewide network of
community-based, prevention-focused, family resource and support program; and
"(5) financing public information activities that focus on
the healthy and positive development of parents and children
and the promotion of child abuse and neglect prevention activities.
"SEC. 202. ELIGroniTY.
42 USC 5116a.
"A State shall be eligible for a grant under this title for a
fiscal year if—
"(I)(A) the chief executive officer of the State has designated a lead entity to administer funds under this title for
the purposes identified under the authority of this title, including to develop, implement, operate, enhance or expand a Statewide network of community-based, prevention-focused, family
resource and support programs, child abuse and neglect prevention activities and access to respite care services integrated
with the Statewide network;
"(B) such lead entity is an existing public, quasi-public,
or nonprofit private entity (which may be an entity that has
not been established pursuant to State legislation, executive
order, or any other written authority of the State) with a
demonstrated ability to work with other State and community-
based agencies to provide training and technical assistance,
and that has the capacity and commitment to ensure the meaningful involvement of parents who are consumers and who
can provide leadership in the planning, implementation, and
evaluation of programs and policy decisions of the applicant
agency in accomplishing the desired outcomes for such efforts;
"(C) in determining which entity to designate under
subparagraph (A), the chief executive officer should give priority
consideration equally to a trust fund advisory board of the
State or to an existing entity that leverages Federal, State,
and private funds for a broad range of child abuse and neglect
prevention activities and family resource programs, and that
is directed by an interdisciplinary, public-private structure,
including participants from communities; and
"(D) in the case of a State that has designated a State
trust fund advisory board for purposes of administering funds
under this title (as such title was in effect on the date of
the enactment of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Act Amendments of 1996) and in which one or more entities
that leverage Federal, State, and private funds (as described
in subparagraph (C)) exist, the chief executive officer shall
designate the lead entity only after full consideration of the
capacity and expertise of all entities desiring to be designated
under subparagraph (A);
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