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§ 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 […]

§ 101. Establishment of training schools

The Governor is authorized to establish such training schools for boys and for girls as may be approved by the Legislature, which shall be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services .

§ 102. Admission to training schools

The training schools shall receive and provide institutional care for children who are dependent or neglected or children who are in danger of becoming dependent or neglected, who are placed therein by the Department of Human Services.

§ 103. Regulations; standards of care and training

The Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules and regulations for the proper conduct and operation of the training schools, and shall provide thereat care and training which will meet the needs of the individual child, and which will conform to accepted modern standards of institutional care for children.