Among the county projects approved by the department, priority shall be given to those which involve:
(a) Efforts to minimize as much as possible, within the limits of state and federal laws, the administrative differences between the several categories of assistance;
(b) Demonstrations in providing family service programs;
(c) Employment counseling, training, and placement programs for public assistance recipients;
(d) Extension of rehabilitation and self-care services for handicapped and incapacitated persons not accepted for services offered by the Department of Rehabilitation;
(e) Efforts designed to give particular attention to the family where dependency is associated with illegitimacy, parental behavior, delinquency, and other family relationship problems;
(f) Coordinated use of medical, psychiatric, and casework services with public assistance recipients;
(g) Development of caseload management and case classification programs;
(h) Homemaker services for families and adults;
(i) Protective services for both children and adults;
(j) Projects demonstrating use of preventive services related to dependency, family breakdown, or personal maladjustment; and
(k) Participation of county departments in community service programs, particularly in approaches to problems of the underprivileged presented by recipients from minority groups.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1949.)