(1) Any funds made available under the federal act shall be used by each grantee of the funds: (a) To provide a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem; (b) To provide activities designed to assist low -income participants including the elderly poor: 1. To secure and retain meaningful employment; 2. To attain an adequate education; 3. To access adequate health care; 4. To make better use of available income; 5. To obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; 6. To obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing and employment related assistance; 7. To remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency; 8. To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and 9. To make more effective use of other programs related to the purposes of KRS 273.405 to 273.453; (c) To coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low -income individuals; (d) To encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community; (e) To develop, promote or otherwise encourage economic development activities which res ult in assisting low -income persons to become economically productive members of their community; (f) To provide education, counseling and technical assistance on compliance with equal opportunity legislation for individuals and community organizations, both public and private. (2) In addition to required services and activities to be provided with funds made available under the federal act, these funds may be used to provide on an emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and services to meet imme diate essential needs of low-income persons including the elderly poor.
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