§ 109. Definitions
As used in this act: (1) “Department” means the Department of Human Services. (2) “Family preservation services” means intensive, short term concentration of comprehensive support coordinated by professional social workers to stabilize family cruises, foster family self-sufficiency, and to reduce or avoid the need for unnecessary and imminent foster care placement. (3) “Foster care” means […]
§ 110. Characteristics of Family Preservation Services
Family preservation services shall have all of the following characteristics: (1) Services shall be provided by a family preservation team under the direction of a social worker who holds a degree of Master of Social Work. The team may consist of social workers who hold a Bachelors degree in Social Work, paraprofessional staff, and private […]
§ 111. Department responsibilities
(a) The Department shall be the administrative agency responsible for family preservation services and may receive funding from any source for the implementation or expansion of such services. The Department shall: (1) Provide coordination and planning for the implementation and expansion of family preservation services; (2) Monitor and evaluate such services to determine whether the […]
§ 112. Services rendered
(a) Family preservation services may be provided to children and their families only when the Department has determined that: (1) The child has been placed in foster care or is at actual or imminent risk of foster care placement due to (i) Child abuse or neglect; (ii) A serious threat of substantial harm to the […]
§ 113. Authorized resources
For the purpose of providing family preservation services to children who would otherwise be removed from their homes, the Department may: (1) Solicit and use any available federal or private resources, which may include funds, in-kind resources, or volunteer services.
§ 114. Existing contracts
The Department providing family preservation services under section 111(c) of this title is not intended to replace existing contracts with private nonprofit social service agencies that provide family preservation services.
§ 108. Purpose
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to make available, within available funds, intensive services to children and families that are designed to prevent the unnecessary and imminent placement of children in foster care and to facilitate the reunification of children with their families. These services shall be known as family preservation services and […]
§ 104. Care and placement of juveniles; boarding or foster homes; fees
(a) The Department of Human Services shall receive such children as may be committed to it by the District Court or the Superior Court, or upon application from parents or guardians; shall determine the type of care and placement needed by the individual child; and shall provide such care and placement, as facilities are available, […]
§ 105. Duration of custody
All children committed to the Department of Human Services or accepted into its custody upon application from parents or guardians shall remain in the custody of the Department of Human Services and subject to placement in its discretion, until released by order of the Department of Human Services or until they arrive at the age […]
§ 106. Instruction and training of children
The Department of Education shall provide necessary and desirable academic instruction and instruction in manual and industrial arts for the children of the training schools, on plans and programs developed with and approved by the Department of Human Services. In all such instruction, emphasis shall be placed on meeting the needs of the individual child […]