problems (2)To provide activities designed to assist low- income participants, including the elderly poor, 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 a suitable living environment; (e) obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and timely needs, including health services, nutritious food, housing, and employment-related assistance; (f) remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency; (g) achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and (h) make more effective use of other related programs; (3) to provide on an emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious foodstuffs, and related services, as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among the poor; (4) to coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social services programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low-income individuals; and (5) to encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community. APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS: Pre- application Coordination: This program is excluded from coverage under EO. 12372. Application Procedure: Each State desiring to receive an allotment
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