Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 114 Part 2.djvu/258

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114 STAT. 1140 PUBLIC LAW 106-310—OCT. 17, 2000 "(B) To focus on outreach to underserved and inappropriately served individuals, such as individuals in institutional settings, individuals with low socioeconomic resources, individuals in rural communities, and individuals in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. "(C) To award contracts to nonprofit entities for consumer or family service access training, consumer support, peer mentoring, and parent to parent programs. "(D) To develop individual and family service coordination or case management systems. "(E) To support other needs identified by the advisory board under subsection (b) for the State involved. "(2) BEST PRACTICES.— "(A) IN GENERAL.— State services and supports provided under a grant under this section shall reflect the best practices in the field of traumatic brain injury, shall be in compliance with title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and shall be supported by quality assurance measures as well as state-of-the-art health care and integrated community supports, regardless of the severity of injury. "(B) DEMONSTRATION BY STATE AGENCY. —The State agency responsible for administering amounts received under a grant under this section shall demonstrate that it has obtained knowledge and expertise of traumatic brain injury and the unique needs associated with traumatic brain injury. "(3) STATE CAPACITY BUILDING. —^A State may use amounts received under a grant under this section to— "(A) educate consumers and families; "(B) train professionals in public and private sector financing (such as third party payers. State agencies, community-based providers, schools, and educators); "(C) develop or improve case management or service coordination systems; "(D) develop best practices in areas such as family or consumer support, return to work, housing or supportive living personal assistance services, assistive technology and devices, behavioral health services, substance abuse services, and traumatic brain injury treatment and rehabilitation; "(E) tailor existing State systems to provide accommodations to the needs of individuals with brain injury (including systems administered by the State departments responsible for health, mental health, labor/employment, education, mental retardation/developmental disorders, transportation, and correctional systems); "(F) improve data sets coordinated across systems and other needs identified by a State plan supported by its advisory council; and "(G) develop capacity within targeted communities."; (7) in subsection (g) (as so redesignated), by striking "agencies of the Public Health Service" and inserting "Federal agencies"; (8) in subsection (i) (as redesignated by paragraph (3))—