Adjunctive therapy is very common in the treatment of mental illness. Eye glasses may be adjunct with eye exercises to improve sight problems. Radiation treatment may be adjunct with surgery for cancer patients. Occupational therapy is often used in combination with other types of adjunctive therapies. People who have been injured may have some form of physical therapy as adjunct to the care received by physicians. Occupational therapy may be adjunct to primary medical care.
The program was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 21, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Pub.L. 87â293). The act declares the program's purpose as follows:
We still had a bit of time before we needed to hit the road back home, so we decided to check out the CCC museum in the State Park before we left. The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was a New Deal program enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was a public works relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 and put 3 million unemployed, unmarried men to work on unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.