1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; establishing projects to provide early intervention 
1.3 	collaborative services to high-risk children and youth; appropriating money;
1.4 	proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 256.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [256.9951] COLLABORATIVE SERVICES FOR HIGH-RISK 
1.7 	CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
1.8 	In order to provide early intervention collaborative services to children and youth 
1.9 	who are at high risk for child maltreatment, substance abuse, mental illness, or committing 
1.10 	serious and violent offenses, the commissioner of human services shall fund one or 
1.11 	more projects that identify and serve these children and youth. Projects must utilize all 
1.12 	available funding streams. The projects that are funded must include the following 
1.13 	program components:
1.14 	(1) identification of high-risk children and youth using multidimensional screening 
1.15 	instruments;
1.16 	(2) multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional collaborative services;
1.17 	(3) an integrated information system;
1.18 	(4) intensive in-home and in-community casework;
1.19 	(5) continuous tracking of outcomes; and
1.20 	(6) multidimensional evaluations and cost-benefit analysis.

1.21 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.22 	$....... is appropriated from the general fund in fiscal year 2015 to the commissioner of 
1.23 	human services to fund collaborative services for high-risk children and youth in section 1.