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Table 2 (Cont'd)

Other DHEW Population and Family Planning
Activities by Function and DHEW Operating Agency

Function

Table 2 (Cont'd)

Other DHEW Population and Family Planning
Activities by Function and DHEW Operating Agency

DHEW Operating Agency with
Funding and

Program Responsibility

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Community Services

Administration

Office of Research

and Demonstrations

Bureau of Community Health
Services

National Institute of

Mental Health

National Center for

Health Statistics

National Institute of

Child Health and
Human Development

Community Services

Administration

Medical Services
Administration

Assistance Payments

Administration
Office of Research

and Demonstrations
Bureau of Community
Health Services
National Center for

Health Statistics
Bureau of Health Ser-
vices Research and
Evaluation

Bureau of Health Resources
Development

Other DHEW Population and Family Planning Activities by Function and DHEW Operating Agency

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II

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation has primary responsibility for the preparation of the five-year budget plan and the Department's program memoranda. This office is also responsible for the overall evaluation of the Department's programs.

The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Planning and Analysis works closely with the Office of Population Affairs in the development of appropriate planning documents, program memoranda, and evaluation studies.

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Human Development

In July 1969, the Office of Child Development (OCD) was established in the Office of the Secretary of HEW to serve as a point of coordination for Federal programs for children and their families and to act as a national advocate of services for children. On April 1, 1973, OCD became part of a new Office of Human Development at HEW which focuses on groups of Americans with special needs.

While the Office of Child Development does not directly operate any programs on family planning, Project Head Start and other OCD demonstration programs, such as Home Start and Child and Family Resource Programs, make social services available to parents. Social worker aides and health specialists in these programs are in contact with community agencies that conduct planned parenthood education and distribute information on family planning. Much of the material published and distributed by these agencies encourages parents to space their children and to talk to a physician or social worker about family planning.

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PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) serves as a focal point for coordination of Department population research and family planning services activities. The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs (DASPA) heads the OPA and has full line authority and responsibility for directing population research and family planning services within the health agencies. P.L. 91-572, the "Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970," establishes the OPA by statute and delineates the functions of the Office as follows:

The Secretary shall utilize the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Population Affairs--

(1) to administer all Federal laws for which the Secretary
has administrative responsibility and which provide
for or authorize the making of grants or contracts re-
lated to population research and family planning pro-
grams;

(2) to administer and be responsible for all population
and family planning research carried on directly by
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare or
supported by the Department through grants to, or
contracts with, entities and individuals;

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

to act as a clearinghouse for information pertaining
to domestic and international population research
and family planning programs for use by all interested
persons and public and private entitities;

to provide a liaison with the activities carried on by
other agencies and instrumentalities of the Federal
Government relating to population research and family
planning;

to provide or support training for necessary manpower
for domestic programs of population research and
family planning programs of service and research; and

to coordinate and be responsible for the evaluation
of the other Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare programs related to population research and
family planning and to make periodic recommendations
to the Secretary.

In addition to its primary program direction activities, the OPA serves as a staff office for the Assistant Secretary for Health. This function involves advising the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary, on policy and new legislation; participating in legislative and fiscal planning; and preparing reports on departmental and inter-departmental activities for the Secretary and the Congress. The OPA also prepares staff documents for the Secretary and for the White House.