Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Health Resources and Services Administration)

MCH block grants include major support for states in public prenatal care programs, newborn intensive care units, newborn screening, services for children with special health care needs, etc. Additional elements are provided for genetics programs, AIDS education and prevention, and special projects.

Centers for Disease Control

Disabilities Prevention Program, epidemiologic studies; injury control program, lead poisoning prevention; childhood immunization, school health, AIDS prevention programs

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

P.L. 94-142, P.L. 99-457, and special projects

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Objectives for the Year 2000

Office of Human Development Services

Head Start, Administration on Developmental Disabilities

Health Care Financing Administration

Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Medicaid

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Studies in causation, pathophysiology, and intervention; Mental Retardation Research Centers

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

Studies of interventions to reduce secondary conditions in persons with disabilities; assistive technology research

National Council on Disability

National advocate for federal civil rights legislation for persons with disabilities and for a national disabilities prevention program; introduced concept of prevention of secondary conditions in persons with disabilities

President's Committee on Mental Retardation

Guidelines for state prevention planning, convenes National Coalition on Prevention of Mental Retardation