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Options for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) should be available. These include mediation and arbitration.

Policymakers should expand access to free or reduced-cost legal services for older adults with low and moderate incomes.

Policymakers should develop and fund programs to make communities safer for residents living in a variety of settings.

Policymakers should encourage intergenerational cooperation.

Policymakers should provide protections for grandparents who are helping to raise their grandchildren or other minors.

Policies and regulations should prioritize placing children in foster care with grandparents and other caregiver relatives whenever possible and appropriate. 

Policymakers should support efforts to improve the quality of foods purchased and consumed by SNAP recipients, such as through nutrition education and healthy food incentives. 

Policymakers should not expand work requirements for SNAP recipients.

States should make it as simple as possible for grandparents and other caregiver relatives to enroll children in their care in school or obtain medical treatment for them. 

States should distribute public revenue only to social service agencies that are formally accountable to taxpayers. This should be demonstrated by performance-based measures.