Among the county projects approved by the department, priority shall be given to those which involve:
- (a) Efforts to minimize as much as possible, within the limits of state and federal laws, the administrative differences between the several categories of assistance;
- (b) Demonstrations in providing family service programs;
- (c) Employment counseling, training, and placement programs for public assistance recipients;
- (d) Extension of rehabilitation and self-care services for handicapped and incapacitated persons not accepted for services offered by the Department of Rehabilitation;
- (e) Efforts designed to give particular attention to the family where dependency is associated with illegitimacy, parental behavior, delinquency, and other family relationship problems;
- (f) Coordinated use of medical, psychiatric, and casework services with public assistance recipients;
- (g) Development of caseload management and case classification programs;
- (h) Homemaker services for families and adults;
- (i) Protective services for both children and adults;
- (j) Projects demonstrating use of preventive services related to dependency, family breakdown, or personal maladjustment; and
- (k) Participation of county departments in community service programs, particularly in approaches to problems of the underprivileged presented by recipients from minority groups.