---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12333"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12333"
heading: "Establishment of programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12333"
units:
  - "Chapter 127 — Coordinated Services for Children, Youth, and Families"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment of Administration and Awarding of Grants for Programs"
  - "Part B — Grants for State and Community Programs for Children, Youth, and Families"
---

# §12333. Establishment of programs


The [Commissioner](/usc/42/12302.md?p=1) shall make grants—

- (1) in each [State](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5) under [section 12337 of this title](/usc/42/12337.md) to improve [State](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5) planning and coordination of services, and under [section 12338 of this title](/usc/42/12338.md) to expand supportive services, in order to promote the availability of developmental, preventive, and remedial services to children, youth and their families that are designed to ensure—
  - (A) adequate and safe physical shelter whether in their own homes or, if necessary, in out-of-home programs;
  - (B) high quality physical and mental health care;
  - (C) the enhancement of the development of children to ensure that children enter school prepared and ready to learn;
  - (D) highest quality educational opportunity;
  - (E) effective training and apprenticeships to increase the likelihood of employment;
  - (F) opportunities for community service and productive employment, and for participation by children and youth in decisions affecting the lives of such children and youth; and
  - (G) a wide range of civic, cultural, and recreational activities that recognize [young individuals](/usc/42/12302.md?p=6) as resources and promote self-esteem and a sense of community; and
- (2) to [States](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5) on a competitive basis under [section 12339](/usc/42/12339.md)[^1] of this title to establish family resource programs (including family support centers) in order to enhance the ability of families to remain together and to thrive through the provision of [community based](/usc/42/11851.md?p=1) services that—
  - (A) promote and build family and parenting skills;
  - (B) promote and assist families in the use of formal and informal family support services;
  - (C) create a support network to strengthen and reinforce good parenting; and
  - (D) are closely linked with, but not duplicative of, other community resources.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 927, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1269.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 12339 of this title, referred to in par. (2), was repealed by Pub. L. 103–252, title IV, § 401(b)(1), May 18, 1994, 108 Stat. 672.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1990, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 101–501, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under section 8621 of this title.