63.2-226 - Duties of Department. - Virginia Statutes

§ 63.2-226. Duties of Department.

The Department shall assume administrative responsibilities for the statewidesystem. In this capacity, the Department shall establish an office to:

1. Develop a plan for the design and implementation of a statewide humanservices information and referral program;

2. Coordinate and supervise the implementation and operation of theinformation and referral program;

3. Coordinate funding for the system;

4. Select regional providers of information and referral services;

5. Supervise coordination of information management among information andreferral regions across the Commonwealth;

6. Encourage effective relationships between the system and state and localagencies and public and private organizations;

7. Develop and implement a statewide publicity effort;

8. Provide training, technical assistance, research, and consultation forregional and local information and referral centers, and to localitiesinterested in developing information and referral services;

9. Determine a core level of services to be funded from state governmentresources;

10. Coordinate standardization of resource data collection, maintenance anddissemination;

11. Stimulate and encourage the availability of statewide information andreferral services;

12. Develop and implement a program for monitoring and assessing theperformance and success of the information and referral program; and

13. Collect information on child-specific payments made through the TitleIV-E foster care program and submit information, when available, to theOffice of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families.

(1984, c. 402, § 63.1-314.5; 1990, c. 915; 2002, c. 747; 2003, cc. 54, 75;2008, c. 277.)