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Ark. Code Ann. § 9-16-103

Director of the Division of Children and Family Services — Duties

Known as the Family Preservation Services Program Act

The act spans §§ 9–9 (9 sections).

Acts 1991, No. 1025, § 3; 2001, No. 906, § 3.

The Director of the Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services shall:

(1) 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 in which the goal is reunification.

(2) The director shall make family preservation services accessible to all cases in which a child is about to be removed or reunification is the goal and the provision of such services is appropriate;

(3) Ensure that statewide availability of family preservation services is accomplished in an orderly fashion, with modification based on analysis of an annual evaluation report; and

(4) Continue the implementation of family preservation services by consultation with professionals who are nationally recognized in the field.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.