§ 43.20A.635. Services to crippled children
It shall be the duty of the secretary of social and health services and he shall have the power to establish and administer a program of services for children who are crippled or who are suffering from physical conditions which lead to crippling, which shall provide for developing, extending, and improving services for locating such children, and for providing for medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and after care; to supervise the administration of those services, included in the program, which are not administered directly by it; to extend and improve any such services, including those in existence on April 1, 1941; to cooperate with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations, and with any agency of the state charged with the administration of laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped children; to cooperate with the federal government, through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in developing, extending, and improving such services; and to receive and expend all funds made available to the department by the federal government, the state or its political subdivisions or from other sources, for such purposes.
[1979 c 141 § 52; 1965 c 8 §43.20.130 . Prior: 1941 c 129 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 9992-107a; prior: 1937 c 114 § 7. Formerly RCW 74.12.210; 43.20.130.]
Notes:
Children with disabilities, copy of commitment order transmitted to department: RCW 26.40.060.
Children's center for research and training in mental retardation, assistant secretaries as members of advisory committee: RCW 28B.20.412. Sections: Previous 43.20A.433 43.20A.445 43.20A.550 43.20A.560 43.20A.605 43.20A.607 43.20A.610 43.20A.635 43.20A.637 43.20A.660 43.20A.680 43.20A.685 43.20A.690 43.20A.695 43.20A.710 Next
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