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  • Title: Organic Statute of the National System for the Integral Development of the Family.
    Author: Mexico.
    Journal: Annu Rev Popul Law; 1989; 16():79, 470-1. PubMed ID: 12344539.
    Abstract:
    The Mexican Organic Statute of the National System for the Integral Development of the Family, 1986, in compliance with its goals as a decentralized public organization and as a semi-official administrative public entity, will perform the following functions: promoting and providing social welfare services; fostering family and community development; implementing and stimulating the healthy physical, mental, and social growth of children; proposing to the Secretary of Health welfare programs which would contribute to an efficient use of resources; encouraging and supporting civic organizations, associations, and all kinds of private entities geared toward welfare services without prejudice to the authorities and functions of established offices; managing welfare institutions for abandoned minors, the elderly, the handicapped, and the homeless who are without resources; implementing programs for prevention and rehabilitation in out-patient clinics; conducting studies and research on social welfare; implementing and encouraging personnel training for social welfare; rendering legal assistance services and counseling to minors, the elderly, and the handicapped lacking resources; supporting the implementation of state guardianship of neglected minors; making available resources for both the protection of the destitute and the enactment of civil and family laws that affect said destitutes in accordance with pertinent regulation; conducting studies and research on disability; participating in programs of rehabilitation and special needs; promoting the developing of centers for physical, psychological, social, and occupational rehabilitation; encouraging, within the organization's jurisdiction, the supervision and coordination of different social groups to help the victims of disasters; recommending and stimulating the creation of public organizations for social welfare at both the federal and the municipal levels and to provide them with technical and administrative assistance; encouraging other entities and departments to allocate the necessary resources to social welfare programs; having a voice in the distribution of subsidies to public and private organizations working in the area of social welfare; and performing all other relevant functions created by law which might be applicable.
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