§ 9-16-101. Title
This chapter shall be known as the “Family Preservation Services Program Act”.
§ 9-16-102. Definition
As used in this chapter, “family preservation services” means services for children and families that are designed to help families at risk or in crisis, including adoptive and extended families, and include: (1) Service programs designed to help a child: (A) When safe and appropriate, be returned to the family from which he or she […]
§ 9-16-103. Director of the Division of Children and Family Services — Duties
The Director of the Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services shall: (1) (A) Make family preservation services accessible to all cases in which a child is about to be placed outside his or her home, or in which a child has been placed outside his or her home, and […]
§ 9-16-104. Division of Children and Family Services — Duties
(a) The Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services shall be the lead administrative agency for family preservation services and may receive funding for the implementation of such services. (b) The division shall: (1) Provide the coordination of and planning for the implementation of family preservation services; (2) Provide standards […]
§ 9-16-105. Provision of services by contract
(a) The Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services may provide family preservation services directly or may contract with a private, nonprofit social service agency or qualified individual to provide such services. (b) In the event a nonprofit social service agency or qualified individual is contracted by the Department of […]
§ 9-16-106. Children qualified to receive services
(a) (1) Family preservation services shall be provided to those children who are placed out-of-home for whom the goal is reunification and for those children who are at actual, imminent risk of out-of-home placement in situations in which family preservation services afford effective protection of children, youth, families, and the community. (2) This shall include […]
§ 9-16-107. Provision of services — Reasonable effort — Acceptance not an admission — Activity of family members
(a) The provision of family preservation services to a family shall constitute a reasonable effort by the Department of Human Services to prevent the removal of a child from the child’s home, provided that the family has received timely access to other services from the department for which the family is eligible. (b) Acceptance of […]
§ 9-16-108. Evaluation
The Director of the Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services shall conduct a yearly evaluation of family preservation services that shall include the following: (1) The number of families in which the use of family preservation services has been an alternative to placement of the child if available; (2) […]
§ 9-16-109. Provision of services — Funding
The Director of the Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services may use funds that become available through an increase in reimbursement of funds from family preservation services from Title IV-E of the Social Security Act as amended by Pub. L. No. 96-272, for the purposes of providing family preservation […]