PUBLIC LAW 90-222-DEC. 23, 1967
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" (B) Programs to provide financial assistance to public or private agencies for projects designed to develop knowledge or enhance skills in the field of health services for the poor. Such projects shall encourage both prospective and practicing health professionals to direct their talents and energies toward providing health services for the poor. I n carrying out the provisions of this paragraph, the Director is authorized to rovide or arrange for training and study in the field of ealth services for the poor. Pursuant to regulations prescribed by him, the Director may arrange for the payment of stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses) for persons undergoing such training and study and for their dependents. The Director and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall achieve effective coordination of programs and projects authorized under this section with other related activities. "(5) A program to be known as 'Upward Bound' designed to generate skills and motivation necessary for success in education beyond high school among young people from low-income backgrounds and inadequate secondary school preparation. Projects must include arrangements to assure cooperation among one or more institutions of higher education and one or more secondary schools. They must include a curriculum designed to develop creative thinking, effective expression and attitudes toward learning needed for post-secondary educational success, necessary health services and such recreational and cultural and group activities as the Director determines may be appropriate. Financial assistance for such projects may be provided directly to institutions of higher learning, but the projects shall be closely coordinated with activities of community action agencies and activities carried on under the Higher Education Act of 1965. " (6) A program to be known as 'Emergency Food and Medical Services' designed to provide on a temporary emergency basis such basic foodstuffs and medical services as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation or malnutrition among the poor. The Director shall arrange to carry out his functions through the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in a manner that will insure the availability of such foodstuffs and services through a community action agency where feasible, or other agencies or organizations if no such agency exists or is able to administer such foodstuffs and services to needy individuals. Each community action agency shall be encouraged to develop projects, such as the furnishing of information on nutrition, which will assist the poor to maintain an adequate and nutritious diet. Of the sums appropriated or allocated for programs authorized under this title, the Director shall reserve and make available not less than $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and not less than $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, for the purpose of carrying out this paragraph. '(7) A 'Family Planning' program to provide assistance and services to low-income persons in the field of voluntary family planning, including the provision of information, medical assistance, and supplies. The Director and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall coordinate, and assure a full exchange of information concerning, family planning projects within their respective jurisdictions in order to assure the maxi-
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'Upward B o u n d. "
79 Stat. 1219. 20 USC 1001 note, " E m e r g e n c y Food and Medical Services."
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