- (a) Community Services Block Grant allowable costs are those that support services and activities which are targeted to the low-income population in order to alleviate poverty and to promote self-sufficiency for those individuals and families.
(b) Community Services Block Grant domains:
- (1) Employment;
- (2) Education and cognitive development;
- (3) Income and asset building;
- (4) Housing;
- (5) Health and social and behavioral development;
- (6) Civic engagement and community involvement; and
- (7) Outcomes and services across multiple domains.
(c) For Community Services Block Grant program reporting requirements, the Office of Community Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services defines "direct" program and "administrative" costs in accordance with three (3) criteria:
- (1) Meeting Congressional intent for the program;
- (2) Achieving consistency with United States Department of Health and Human Services audit and financial management standards; and
- (3) Ensuring a common basis for relating expenditures to the Community Services Block Grant Results Oriented Management and Accountability System (ROMA) in its updated format that was Office of Management and Budget-approved in January 2017.
- (d) All costs charged to the Community Services Block Grant must be in accordance with 2 C.F.R. pt. 200.
- (e) Any program or activity supported by Community Services Block Grant funds must be identified in the community action plan.