Section 4-402 - Program established. - Maryland Statutes

§ 4-402. Program established.
 

(a)  In general.-  

(1) To implement the policies set forth in this subtitle, the Secretary shall establish in each local department a program of services to families with children. 

(2) The program shall be available to: 

(i) those families who are receiving temporary cash assistance or Supplemental Security Income; and 

(ii) those families whose gross income is 80% or less of this State's median income adjusted for family size in accordance with regulations adopted by the Social Services Administration. 

(b)  Services to families with children enumerated.- For purposes of this subtitle, services to families with children are: 

(1) functional services to help a family resolve a situational crisis brought on by catastrophe, deprivation of income, lack of shelter, physical illness, mental illness, death, desertion, or abandonment; 

(2) family counseling: 

(i) to resolve marital conflict, familial conflict, and parent-child relationship problems; and 

(ii) to teach child care and development and parenting skills; 

(3) information and referral services to teach families how to locate and use community services, including health care services; and 

(4) home management services to teach the management of household duties and responsibilities, including budgeting skills. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 88A, §§ 121, 122; 1984, ch. 296, § 2; 1996, ch. 351, § 4; 2005, ch. 464, § 3.]