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Date Posted: 14:31:10 02/21/02 Thu
Author: You may need this some day
Subject: HHS AWARDS $128 MILLION IN GRANTS TO HELP FAMILY CAREGIVERS

HHS AWARDS $128 MILLION IN GRANTS TO HELP FAMILY CAREGIVERS

HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved the release of $128
million
in grants to states under the National Family Caregiver Support
Program,
which helps family members provide care for the elderly at home.
States
will use the grants to run programs that provide critical support,
including
home and community-based services, to help families maintain their
caregiver
roles.

"With courage, compassion and dedication, family caregivers can help
the
elderly and people with disabilities to stay in a loving environment,
and
caregivers often sacrifice their own physical, mental and financial
health
to do so," Secretary Thompson said. "These grants will fund community
services and resources that will ease the burden on hundreds of
thousands of
family caregivers nationwide."

The grants will support states that work with area agencies on aging
and
community service providers to better serve caregivers who are
struggling to
care for their loved ones while holding jobs and juggling other
responsibilities. Services provided include information and
assistance,
counseling, support groups and training, respite services so that the
caregiver can get a short break when needed, and supplemental services
that
complement care provided by informal caregivers. The program also
assists
grandparents raising grandchildren and older individuals providing care
to
children with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

The grants are part of the National Family Caregiver Support Program,
which
is administered by HHS' Administration on Aging (AoA). Created in 2000
under the Older Americans Act, the program also provides grants for
innovative caregiving programs and support for Native American elders.
For
fiscal year 2002, the program received an appropriation of $141.5
million, a
$16.5 million increase from the previous year's funding.

In fiscal year 2001, HHS released the first grants to states under the
National Family Caregiver Support Program, and awarded $6 million for
34
innovative caregiver grants and $5 million for a new program to serve
caregivers of Native American elders. AoA also is developing a national
awareness campaign on the increasing role that caregivers play in the
lives
of all Americans and to inform them of services available in their
communities through this important program.

"In the first year since enactment of the program, state and area
agencies,
tribal organizations and local service providers have displayed great
creativity and diligence in implementing the National Family Caregiver
Support Program," HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging Josefina G.
Carbonell
said. "I am proud of what they have accomplished on behalf of our
nation's
families and those we are entrusted to serve."

The list of state and territorial allocations under the grant program
for
fiscal year 2002 for the National Family Caregiver Support Program is
available at
http://www.aoa.gov/pressroom/Pr2002/NFCSP-funding-02.html#chart. In
addition, more information on this program is available at
http://www.aoa.gov/carenetwork/.

The AoA is the federal agency dedicated to policy development, planning
and
the delivery of supportive home and community-based services to older
persons and their caregivers through the national aging network of
state and
local agencies on aging, tribal organizations, service providers and
volunteers.

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