---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12353"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12353"
heading: "Establishment of National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12353"
units:
  - "Chapter 127 — Coordinated Services for Children, Youth, and Families"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment of Administration and Awarding of Grants for Programs"
  - "Part C — National Clearinghouse"
---

# §12353. Establishment of National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Commissioner](/usc/42/12302.md?p=1) shall establish, through grant or contract, a national center for the collection and provision of programmatic information and technical assistance that relates to all types of family resource and support programs, to be known as the “National Center on Family Resource and Support Programs”.
- (b) **Functions—** The national center established under [subsection (a)](#a) shall serve as a national information and data clearinghouse, training, technical assistance, and material development source for family resource and support programs. Such center shall—
  - (1) develop and maintain a system for disseminating information on all types of family resource and support programs and on the [state](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5) of family resource and support program development, including information concerning the most effective model programs;
  - (2) develop and sponsor a variety of training institutes and curricula for family resource and support program staff;
  - (3) identify several programs representing the various types of family resource and support programs to develop technical assistance materials and activities to assist other [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) in establishing family resource and support programs; and
  - (4) develop [State](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5)-wide networks of family resource and support programs for the purpose of sharing and disseminating information.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 958, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1279; Pub. L. 103–252, title IV, § 403(a), May 18, 1994, 108 Stat. 673.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 103–252 substituted “several programs” for “several model programs”.

### 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.