§ 63.2-226. Duties of Department
The Department shall assume administrative responsibilities for the statewide system. In this capacity, the Department shall establish an office to:
1. Develop a plan for the design and implementation of a statewide human services information and referral program;
2. Coordinate and supervise the implementation and operation of the information and referral program;
3. Coordinate funding for the system;
4. Select regional providers of information and referral services;
5. Supervise coordination of information management among information and referral regions across the Commonwealth;
6. Encourage effective relationships between the system and state and local agencies and public and private organizations;
7. Develop and implement a statewide publicity effort;
8. Provide training, technical assistance, research, and consultation for regional and local information and referral centers, and to localities interested in developing information and referral services;
9. Determine a core level of services to be funded from state government resources;
10. Coordinate standardization of resource data collection, maintenance and dissemination;
11. Stimulate and encourage the availability of statewide information and referral services;
12. Develop and implement a program for monitoring and assessing the performance and success of the information and referral program; and
13. Collect information on child-specific payments made through the Title IV-E foster care program and submit information, when available, to the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families.
(1984, c. 402, § 63.1-314.5; 1990, c. 915; 2002, c. 747; 2003, cc. 54, 75; 2008, c. 277.)
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