![]() |
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
|
|||
ACF Home | Services | Working with ACF | Policy/Planning | About ACF | ACF News | HHS Home |
Questions?
|
Privacy
|
Site Index
|
Contact Us
|
Download Reader![]() ![]() |
---|
ACF Administration for Children and Families |
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children, Youth and Families |
|
1. Log No. ACYF-IM-83-14 | 2. Issuance Date: July 15, 1983 | |
3. Originating Office: Administration for Children, Youth and Families | ||
4. Key Words: Emergency Food Programs |
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM
TO: Head Start Grantees, Runaway Youth Projects, Child Welfare Agencies and Child Abuse and Neglect Grantees.
SUBJECT: Emergency Food Programs
LEGAL AND RELATED REFERENCES: Public Law 98-8, the Jobs Bill; cited in Federal Register, Vol. 48, No. 81, April 26, 1983.
INFORMATION:
This Information Memorandum is being issued in order to advise all ACYF grantees, runaway youth projects and child welfare agencies of the new emergency food assistance programs, enacted under P.L. 98-8, and to encourage eligible organizations to contact the responsible State agencies in order to apply to assist in distributing the food to needy persons. On March 3, 1983, the Jobs Bill was enacted, as P.L. 98-8, to provided additional authority for emergency food distribution to benefit the poor and the unemployed. In order to govern these emergency food assistance programs, the Department of Agriculture issued interim rules that became effective as of May 1, 1983. The distribution of these emergency commodities is in addition to already existing food programs.
Other organizations which may be eligible for emergency food distribution programs include local aging agencies, Head Start providers, shelters for runaway and homeless youth, community action agencies, spouse abuse centers, boarding homes, community health centers, maternal and child health centers, day care providers, welfare agencies, and shelters for the homeless.
To cover the cost of storage and handling of food distributed by emergency feeding organizations $50 million will be provided to State governments and local agencies. These funds will be allocated according to the number of households below the poverty level and the number of unemployed in each State.
The program authorities are due to expire on September 30, 1983, and ACYF apologizes for the delay in sending this information to you. However, the USDA will continue to donate some commodities after that date under legislative authorities in effect prior to the enactment of the Jobs Bill.
To apply for the emergency food assistance programs contact your State agency responsible for distribution of donated food (see attachment). If the State agency cannot be reached, contact the USDA/FNS Regional Office for your area.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Effective upon issuance.
INQUIRIES:
Regional Program Directors.
/s/
Clarence E. Hodges
Commissioner
Attachment - FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM / STATE DISTRIBUTING AGENCIES