§ 9-28-403. Child Welfare Agency Review Board — Creation — Authority
(a) (1) There is created the Child Welfare Agency Review Board to serve as the administrative body to carry out the provisions of this subchapter. (2) The board shall have the authority to promulgate rules to enforce the provisions of this subchapter. (b) The board may also identify and implement alternative methods of regulation and […]
§ 9-28-404. Child Welfare Agency Review Board — Composition
(a) The Child Welfare Agency Review Board shall consist of Arkansas residents who shall be qualified as follows: (1) The director of the division within the Department of Human Services designated by the Secretary of the Department of Human Services to administer this subchapter or his or her designee; (2) One (1) representative from a […]
§ 9-28-405. Child Welfare Agency Review Board — Duties
(a) (1) The Child Welfare Agency Review Board shall promulgate and publish rules setting minimum standards governing the granting, revocation, refusal, conversion, and suspension of licenses for a child welfare agency and the operation of a child welfare agency. (2) The board may consult with such other agencies, organizations, or individuals as it shall deem […]
§ 9-28-406. Department enforcement duties
(a) (1) The Department of Human Services shall advise the Child Welfare Agency Review Board regarding proposed rules. (2) The department shall obtain comments from the board prior to initiating the rule promulgation process. (b) (1) The board is authorized to make an inspection and investigation of any proposed or operating child welfare agency and […]
§ 9-28-209. Commitment conditions and terms
(a) (1) Upon commitment to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services, a youth shall be delivered to the observation and assessment center for orientation, classification, diagnosis, and evaluation. (2) Upon completion of such orientation, classification, diagnosis, and evaluation, the staff of the observation and assessment center shall make recommendations to […]
§ 9-28-210. Release
(a) (1) In consideration of its juvenile correctional role, the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services shall establish objective guidelines for length of stay when juveniles are committed to the division. (2) Except when an extended juvenile jurisdiction offender or a juvenile committed to the division from circuit court is committed […]
§ 9-28-211. Escape from youth services center or facilities
(a) If any delinquent youth committed to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services escapes or absents himself or herself from a youth services center or facility without authorization, he or she may be returned to the facility by a law enforcement officer without further proceedings. (b) No law enforcement officer, […]
§ 9-28-212. Sale of goods produced at youth services centers — Disposition of funds
All funds derived from the sale of agricultural products, livestock, or manufactured articles, or from other activities carried on at the youth services centers or facilities shall be deposited into the State Treasury in the Youth Services Fund Account of the Department of Human Services Fund to be used exclusively for the support of the […]
§ 9-28-117. Authority to obtain local criminal background checks
(a) Local law enforcement shall provide the Department of Human Services with criminal background information on persons who have applied to be a provisional foster home, a regular foster home, or an adoptive home for the department upon request from the department. (b) Local law enforcement shall provide the department with criminal background information on […]
§ 9-28-214. Penalty for escape
(a) If charged and found guilty as an adult for first degree escape, § 5-54-110, or second degree escape, § 5-54-111, a juvenile shall be given a mandatory sentence of not less than nine (9) months in an appropriate facility of the Division of Correction. (b) If adjudicated delinquent for first degree escape, § 5-54-110, […]