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:
Kennedy's speech to the students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on October 14, 1960 was the start of the Peace Corps. 1  In his speech to a Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961, Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the moon by 1969 for the United States's Space Program (NASA).