KRS 273.443: Use of federal funds.

(1) Any funds made available under the federal act shall be used by each grantee of the

funds:

(a) To provide 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;

(b) To provide activities designed to assist low -income participants including the

elderly poor:

1. To secure and retain meaningful employment;

2. To attain an adequate education;

3. To access adequate health care;

4. To make better use of available income;

5. To obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living

environment;

6. To obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet

immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need

for health services, nutritious food, housing and employment related

assistance;

7. To remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement

of self-sufficiency;

8. To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and

9. To make more effective use of other programs related to the purposes of

KRS 273.405 to 273.453;

(c) To coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social

programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low -income

individuals;

(d) To encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in

efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community;

(e) To develop, promote or otherwise encourage economic development activities

which res ult in assisting low -income persons to become economically

productive members of their community;

(f) To provide education, counseling and technical assistance on compliance with

equal opportunity legislation for individuals and community organizations,

both public and private.

(2) In addition to required services and activities to be provided with funds made

available under the federal act, these funds may be used to provide on an emergency

basis for the provision of such supplies and services to meet imme diate essential

needs of low-income persons including the elderly poor.