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2000 SESSION

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HB 1510 Comprehensive Services Act for At-Risk Youth and Families.

Introduced by: Harvey B. Morgan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Children; Comprehensive Services Act for At-Risk Youth and Families. Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. The Office would assume the responsibilities of the state management team to develop programs and fiscal policies that promote and support cooperation and collaboration in the provision of services at the state and local levels to troubled and at-risk youth and their families. The Office would also provide for training, oversight, and technical assistance to localities, serve as a liaison to participating state agencies, and hire a director and appropriate staff. The new state and local advisory team would provide many of the same functions in an advisory capacity to the Office. The state executive council would also be expanded to include the Director of Medical Assistance Services; two local government representatives to include a member of a county board of supervisors or a city council and a county administrator or city manager; and a private provider that maintains membership in an association of providers for children's or family services and receives funding as authorized by the Comprehensive Services Act.


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