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Missouri Revised Statutes Title XL. Additional Executive Departments § 660.370. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in sections 660.370 to 660.374, unless the context requires otherwise, the following words and terms shall mean:

(1)“Community action agency”, a not-for-profit corporation which has authority under its charter and bylaws to receive funds to administer community action programs and which was officially designated as a community action agency or a community action program under the provisions of federal law Section 210 of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 for fiscal year 1981, unless such community action agency or a community action program lost its designation pursuant to the aforementioned act as a result of failure to comply with the provisions of such act;

(2)“Community action program”, a community based and operated program which includes an intake assessment and referral capability in each of its counties and is designed to include a number of projects or components to provide a range of services and activities having  1 a measurable and potentially major impact on causes and conditions of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem. These services and activities may include, but are not limited to, activities designed to provide opportunities for eligible persons to:

(a) Secure and retain meaningful employment;

(b) Attain an adequate education;

(c) Make better use of available income;

(d) Obtain and maintain adequate housing and suitable living environment;

(e) Obtain emergency assistance through grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing and employment related assistance;

(f) Maximize the role community action agencies play in supportive mechanisms available to Missouri families;

(g) Remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency;

(h) Achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and

(i) Make more effective use of other programs.

1 Revisor's note: Word “have” appears in original rolls of L.1984, S.B. No. 564, p. 784, § 1.
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