Early Intervention Act

The act creates a coordinated statewide system for providing early intervention services to eligible infants and toddlers and their families. It designates a lead agency to administer the program, requires other participating agencies to cooperate with it, and establishes a state interagency coordinating council along with local councils to help plan the system and oversee its implementation. It also sets the minimum components the statewide system must include, makes an individualized family service plan the single comprehensive service plan honored by all participating agencies, and governs financing — reviewing agency budgets to allocate financial responsibility and requiring that new federal and state money supplement rather than replace existing funding.

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