---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15021"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15021"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15021"
units:
  - "Chapter 144 — Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities"
  - "Part B — Federal Assistance to State Councils on Developmental Disabilities"
---

# §15021. Purpose


The purpose of this part is to provide for allotments to support [State](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-5) Councils on Developmental Disabilities (referred to individually in this part as a “Council”) in each [State](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-5) to—

- (1) engage in advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities that are consistent with the purpose described in [section 15001(b) of this title](/usc/42/15001.md?p=b) and the policy described in [section 15001(c) of this title](/usc/42/15001.md?p=c); and
- (2) contribute to a coordinated, consumer- and [family](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-2-A)-centered, consumer- and [family](/usc/42/15092.md?p=a-2-A)-directed, comprehensive system of community services, individualized supports, and other forms of assistance that enable individuals with developmental disabilities to exercise self-determination, be independent, be productive, and be integrated and included in all facets of community life.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–402, title I, § 121, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1693.)