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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Subdivision 1. In general. A community action program is a community based and operated program which:
(1) includes or is designed to include a sufficient number of projects or components to provide, in sum, a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem;
(2) has been developed, and which organizes and combines its component projects and activities, in a manner appropriate to carry out all the purposes ofsections 142F.30to142F.302; and
(3) conforms to any other supplementary criteria as the governor may prescribe consistent with the purposes and provisions ofsections 142F.30to142F.302.
Subd. 2. Components. The components of a community action program shall be designed to assist participants, including homeless individuals and families, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and the elderly poor to achieve increased self-sufficiency and greater participation in the affairs of the community by providing services and programs not sufficiently provided in the community by any governmental unit, any public institution, or any other publicly funded agency or corporation. Community action agencies, governmental units, public institutions or other publicly funded agencies or corporations shall consult on whether or not a program or service is sufficiently provided in the community.
Subd. 3. Administration. Components of a community action program may be administered by the community action agency when consistent with sound and efficient management and applicable law, or by other agencies. They may be projects eligible for assistance undersection 142F.30, or projects assisted from other public or private sources; and they may be either specially designed to meet local needs, or designed pursuant to the eligibility standards of a state or federal program providing assistance to a particular kind of activity which will help in meeting those needs.
Subd. 4. Data classification. Data collected on individuals from which the identity of any individual receiving services may be determined are private data on individuals as defined insection 13.02.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Minnesota Statutes Proprietary Schools (Ch. 141-142) § 142F.302. Community action programs - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/mn/proprietary-schools-ch-141-142/mn-st-sect-142f-302/
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