Sec. 47.80.170. Provision for personal needs upon discharge.
The department shall make arrangements which are necessary to ensure that (1) no patient is discharged or placed on convalescent status from a designated facility without suitable clothing; and (2) an indigent patient discharged or placed on convalescent status is furnished suitable transportation to the patient’s permanent residence in this state or other suitable place […]
Sec. 47.80.400. Qualifications for teaching the use of certain aids or devices for the blind or visually impaired.
(a) A person who is employed to teach the use of orientation and mobility aids or assistive technology devices to students who are 16 years of age or older and who are blind or visually impaired may not receive payment from the state or a political subdivision of the state unless the person meets the […]
Sec. 47.80.500. Statewide traumatic or acquired brain injury program.
(a) A statewide traumatic or acquired brain injury program is established in the department for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness and availability of information and services for the prevention and treatment of traumatic or acquired brain injury in the state. The department shall consult and collaborate with state agencies, private nonprofit entities, and other […]
Sec. 47.80.529. Definition.
In AS 47.80.500 – 47.80.529, “traumatic or acquired brain injury” means an insult from physical force or internal damage to the brain or its coverings, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, that produces an altered mental state and that results in a decrease in cognitive, behavioral, emotional, or physical functioning.
Sec. 47.70.070. Violations of compact.
A person who sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought into this state from any party state, or from this state into any party state, a person under the age of 19, in violation of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable […]
Sec. 47.65.100. Adult day care and family respite care.
(a) In addition to administering grants for adult day care programs and family respite care services for older Alaskans under AS 47.65.010 – 47.65.050, the department may make grants under this section from funds otherwise available to it for adult day care programs and family respite care services for frail older persons and other similarly […]
Sec. 47.70.080. Short title.
AS 47.70.010 may be cited as the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
Sec. 47.65.290. Definitions.
In this chapter, (1) “adult day care” means nonresidential care for a group of persons that offers supervision, custodial care, and other appropriate social, indoor and outdoor recreational, physical, medical, or psychological services for persons at risk of institutional placement; (2) “at risk of institutional placement” means that a person is either already a resident […]
Sec. 47.75.010. Purpose.
The purpose of the state plan for social services is to assess the state’s needs for existing and new social services, to establish priorities among these needs, and to present an annual implemental plan to meet those needs based upon available state and federal financing with the goals of (1) achieving or maintaining economic self-support […]
Sec. 47.75.020. State plan.
(a) The department shall annually provide to the legislature a detailed state plan for the delivery of social services. It includes the following: (1) a needs analysis of social services presently provided or purchased by the state; (2) a needs analysis of social services that are not presently provided or purchased by the state or […]