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2001 SESSION
017096436Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 2.1-752 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.1-752. Community policy and management teams; powers and duties.
The community policy and management team shall manage the cooperative effort in each community to better serve the needs of troubled and at-risk youths and their families and to maximize the use of state and community resources. Every such team shall:
1. Develop interagency policies and procedures to govern the provision of services to children and families in its community;
2. Develop interagency fiscal policies governing access to the state pool of funds by the eligible populations including immediate access to funds for emergency services and shelter care;
3. Establish policies to assess the ability of parents or legal guardians to contribute financially to the cost of services to be provided and, when not specifically prohibited by federal or state law or regulation, provide for appropriate parental or legal guardian financial contribution, utilizing a standard sliding fee scale based upon ability to pay;
4. Coordinate long-range, community-wide planning which ensures the development of resources and services needed by children and families in its community including consultation on the development of a community-based system of services established under § 16.1-309.3;
5. Establish policies governing referrals and reviews of children and families to the family assessment and planning teams and a process to review the teams' recommendations and requests for funding;
6. Establish quality assurance and accountability procedures for program utilization and funds management;
7. Establish procedures for obtaining bids on the development of new services;
8. Manage funds in the interagency budget allocated to the community from the state pool of funds, the trust fund, and any other source;
9. Authorize and monitor the expenditure of funds by each family assessment and planning team;
10. Have authority to submit grant proposals which benefit its community to the state trust fund and to enter into contracts for the provision or operation of services upon approval of the participating governing bodies;
11. Serve as its community's liaison to the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families, reporting on its programmatic and fiscal operations and on its recommendations for improving the service system, including consideration of realignment of geographical boundaries for providing human services;
12. Collect and provide uniform data to the State Executive Council on, but not
limited to, expenditures, number of youth served in specific CSA activities,
length of stay for residents in core licensed residential facilities, and
proportion of youth placed in treatment settings suggested by a uniform
assessment instrument for CSA-funded services; and
13. Have the power to administer funds pursuant to § 16.1-309.3; and
14. Have authority to enter into a contract with another community policy and management team to purchase coordination services.