63.2-227 - Regional providers; duties. - Virginia Statutes

§ 63.2-227. Regional providers; duties.

There shall be established a regional system of providers of information andreferral services. The Department shall select the regional providers.

The regional providers shall:

1. Collect, maintain and disseminate resource data;

2. Provide citizen access to information about resources throughout theCommonwealth;

3. Assist in planning functions by providing selected data to the Departmenton a regular basis;

4. Provide data to public and private agencies other than the Department on acontractual basis;

5. Cooperate with the state administering agency;

6. Seek funds from available sources;

7. Maintain effective relationships between the system and state and localagencies and public and private organizations; and

8. When feasible and appropriate and within the limits of available funds,establish satellite offices or develop cooperative agreements with localinformation and referral groups and resource and referral groups that canassist the regional providers in performing their duties and responsibilities.

(1984, c. 402, § 63.1-314.6; 1990, c. 915; 2002, c. 747; 2003, cc. 54, 75.)