Program Name

Purpose

Act* Original Act

Senate

House of Representatives

Agency, Office

Committee

Subcommittee

Committee

Subcommittee

National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP)

The NFCSP calls for the states, working in partnership with Area Agencies on Aging and local community-service providers, and tribes to provide a continuum of caregiver services, including information, assistance, individual counseling, support groups, training, respite, and supplemental services. These caregiver support services are available to adult family members or other individuals who are informal providers of in-home and community care to older people. Caregiver support services are also available to grandparents or older individuals who are relative caregivers for a child, age 18 and under. Priority consideration for services is to be given to people in greatest social and economic need, with particular attention to low-income older individuals, and older individuals providing care and support to people 18 and under with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities.

Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000, section 316, (P.L. 106-501, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2226) (codified at 42 U.S.C. sec. 3030s, 3030s-1, 3030s-2, 3030s-11, 3030s-12)

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Aging Subcommittee

Committee on Education and the Workforce

Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning Subcommittee

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging