---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10825"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10825"
heading: "Technical assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10825"
units:
  - "Chapter 114 — Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness"
  - "Subchapter I — Protection and Advocacy Systems"
  - "Part B — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §10825. Technical assistance


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall use not more than 2 percent of the amounts appropriated under [section 10827 of this title](/usc/42/10827.md) to provide technical assistance to eligible systems with respect to activities carried out under this subchapter, consistent with requests by such systems for such assistance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–319, title I, § 115, May 23, 1986, 100 Stat. 484; Pub. L. 100–509, § 7(b)(2), Oct. 20, 1988, 102 Stat. 2545.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–509 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The Secretary shall provide technical assistance to eligible systems with respect to activities carried out under this subchapter.”