The duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be to:
(1) Promote and develop effective programs of education, health, recreation, welfare, public safety, and correctional services for children and youth;
(2) Conduct continuing programs of public information to educate the public as to problems of children and youth;
(3) Assist and encourage governmental and private agencies to coordinate their efforts on behalf of children and youth;
(4) Cooperate with the federal government and with the governments of other states and cities in programs relating to children and youth;
(5) Conduct programs of research as to the needs of children and youth in order to facilitate more comprehensive and better-related social planning and action.