The priorities of a community action program may include, but not be limited to, component projects designed to assist participants including the elderly poor, in attaining the following objectives:

(1) To secure and retain meaningful employment;

(2) To obtain adequate education;

(3) To provide for education and care of young children;

(4) To make better use of available income;

(5) To provide and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment;

(6) To provide information and education on, and access to healthful nutrition;

(7) To obtain services for the prevention of and rehabilitation from drug abuse and alcoholism;

(8) To obtain emergency assistance to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing, energy and unemployment-related assistance;

(9) To remove obstacles and solve personal and family problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency;

(10) To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community;

(11) To make more frequent and effective use of other programs related to the purposes of sections 17b-885 to 17b-895, inclusive;

(12) To stimulate and take full advantage of capabilities for self-advancement; and

(13) To designate violence-free zones in accordance with the federal Community Services Block Grant Program, 42 USC 9908, for the purpose of addressing the needs of youths through 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. As used in this subdivision, “violence-free zone” means a geographic area within a targeted investment community, as defined in section 32-222, that has chronically high levels of crime, violence, unemployment, family dissolution and juvenile delinquency and a low rate of home ownership.

(P.A. 82-84, S. 6, 12; P.A. 00-158, S. 2, 3; P.A. 06-196, S. 144.)

History: Sec. 17-465 transferred to Sec. 17-640 in 1991; Sec. 17-640 transferred to Sec. 17b-890 in 1995; P.A. 00-158 added Subdiv. (13) re designation of violence-free zones, effective May 26, 2000; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subdiv. (13), effective June 7, 2006.