A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States to support family caregivers information and education demonstration programs.
Family Caregivers Advocacy, Resource, and Education Demonstration Program Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, to make grants to States to support Family Caregivers Advocacy, Resource, and Education (Family CARE) demonstration programs.
Requires such a program to provide and coordinate, throughout the State, advocacy, education, information dissemination, and referral services for elderly and disabled individuals and members of their families who care for them. Specifies other requirements of such a program.
Sets forth application requirements for a grant. Requires the Secretary to make grants for FY 1988 within six months after enactment of this Act. Sets the term of a grant at one year, renewable for two more consecutive one-year periods. Requires the Secretary to make grants to between five and eight States, assuring appropriate distribution among different geographic areas and urban and rural populations.
Requires each State receiving a grant to provide for the evaluation of its program.
Requires the Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress on grant activities.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Health and Human Services Department, OMB.
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