The priorities of a Community Action Program may include, but not be limited to, component projects designed to assist eligible participants, including the elderly poor, in attaining the following objectives:

1. (1) To secure and retain meaningful employment;
2. (2) To obtain adequate education;
3. (3) To provide for education and care of young children;
4. (4) To make better use of available income;
5. (5) To provide and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment;
6. (6) To provide information and education, and access to healthful nutrition;
7. (7) To obtain services for the prevention of and rehabilitation from drug abuse and alcoholism;
8. (8) To obtain emergency assistance to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing, energy and unemployment-related assistance;
9. (9) To remove obstacles and solve personal and family problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency;
10. (10) To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community;
11. (11) To make more frequent and effective use of other programs related to the purposes of Chapter 311 of the Connecticut General Statutes; and
12. (12) To stimulate and take full advantage of capabilities for self-advancement.

(Effective March 5, 1986)