Defense - Research - Appendices - National AIDS Strategy

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Goal	To meet the social and support service needs of children, youth, and families with or at risk for HIV/AIDS.
Objective #1	Stabilize the crisis situation and provide needed services to runaway and homeless youth.
*Action Steps*	Provide shelter and immediate services including diagnostic medical services and education and prevention related to HIV/AIDS.
Description	Runaway and Homeless Youth Program.
Resources	FY95	FY96	FY96
	*	*	*
	* HIV services integrated into overall budget
Populations Served	Runaway and homeless youth at risk for HIV.
Constituency Involvement	A network of more than 500 grantees, both public and private.
Objective #2	Provide foster care and adoption services to abused, neglected, or otherwise needy children including those with HIV/AIDS.
*Action Steps*	Provide diagnostic and treatment services, counseling for children, parents, extended family, foster and adoptive parents, and others relevant to HIV/AIDS.
Description	Child Welfare Services Program.
Resources	FY95	FY96	FY96
	*	*	*
	* HIV services integrated into overall budget
Populations Served	Children in foster care and those placed in adoption, their parents, and extended families.
Constituency Involvement	National, professional, advocacy, and service organizations such as the Child Welfare League of America, American Public Welfare Association, National Association of Social Workers, and 56 State/Territorial grantees.
Objective #3	Support health and social services for abandoned infants and young children who have been drug-exposed and/or have HIV/AIDS.
*Action Steps*	Provide foster care, health services, counseling and other social services.
Description	Abandoned Infants Assistance Program.
Resources	FY95	FY96	FY96
	*	*	*
	* HIV services integrated into overall budget
Populations Served	Abandoned infants and young children who have been drug-exposed and/or have HIV/AIDS.
Constituency Involvement	Public and private providers of these services, grantees, and national resource agencies.
Objective #4	The Head Start Program provides comprehensive child development services to children, including those with HIV/AIDS, their parents, and families.
*Action Steps*	Services to Head Start families may include prevention and education, identification, and intervention related to HIV/AIDS; children with HIV/AIDS are enrolled in the on-going Head Start program.
Description	Head Start Program.
Resources	FY95	FY96	FY96
	*	*	*
	* HIV services integrated into overall budget
Populations Served	Low income pre-schoolers and their families, including pregnant women.
Constituency Involvement	National Head Start Association and related early childhood development organizations, such as National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Objective #5	Support the independence, productivity, and integration into the community of persons with developmental disabilities.
*Action Steps*	Support grantees; twenty-seven of the current 51 grantees operate within university-associated pediatric HIV/AIDS clinics.
Description	University Affiliated Program.
Resources	FY95	FY96	FY96
	*	*	*
	* HIV services integrated into overall budget
Populations Served	Developmentally disabled persons, including those with HIV/AIDS.
Constituency Involvement	National network of grantees; national advocacy organizations related to HIV/AIDS and developmental disabilities.


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