Section 18203.

Among the county projects approved by the department, priority shall be given to those which involve:

(a) Efforts to minimize as much as possible, within the limits of state and federal laws, the administrative differences between the several categories of assistance;

(b) Demonstrations in providing family service programs;

(c) Employment counseling, training, and placement programs for public assistance recipients;

(d) Extension of rehabilitation and self-care services for handicapped and incapacitated persons not accepted for services offered by the Department of Rehabilitation;

(e) Efforts designed to give particular attention to the family where dependency is associated with illegitimacy, parental behavior, delinquency, and other family relationship problems;

(f) Coordinated use of medical, psychiatric, and casework services with public assistance recipients;

(g) Development of caseload management and case classification programs;

(h) Homemaker services for families and adults;

(i) Protective services for both children and adults;

(j) Projects demonstrating use of preventive services related to dependency, family breakdown, or personal maladjustment; and

(k) Participation of county departments in community service programs, particularly in approaches to problems of the underprivileged presented by recipients from minority groups.

(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1949.)