Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 576-S.F.No. 2206 
           An act relating to human services; requiring county 
          community social service plans to address the county's 
          responsibility to establish a system of early 
          intervention services for handicapped children; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
          256E.09, subdivision 3. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1987 Supplement, section 
256E.09, subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [PLAN CONTENT.] The biennial community social 
services plan published by the county shall include: 
    (a) A statement of the goals of community social service 
programs in the county; 
    (b) Methods used pursuant to subdivision 2 to encourage 
participation of citizens and providers in the development of 
the plan and the allocation of money; 
    (c) Methods used to identify persons in need of service and 
the social problems to be addressed by the community social 
service programs, including efforts the county proposes to make 
in providing for early intervention, prevention and education 
aimed at minimizing or eliminating the need for services for 
groups of persons identified in section 256E.03, subdivision 2;  
    (d) A statement describing how the county will fulfill its 
responsibilities identified in section 256E.08, subdivision 1, 
to the groups of persons described in section 256E.03, 
subdivision 2, and a description of each community social 
service proposed and identification of the agency or person 
proposed to provide the service.  The plan shall specify; 
     (e) A statement describing how the county proposes to make 
the following services available for persons identified by the 
county as in need of services:  daytime developmental 
achievement services for children, day training and habilitation 
services for adults, subacute detoxification services, 
residential services and nonresidential social support services 
as appropriate for the groups identified in section 256E.03, 
subdivision 2; 
    (e) (f) A statement describing how the county is fulfilling 
its responsibility to establish a comprehensive and coordinated 
system of early intervention services as required under section 
120.17, subdivisions 11a, 12, and 14; 
    (g) The amount of money proposed to be allocated to each 
service; 
    (f) (h) An inventory of public and private resources 
including associations of volunteers which are available to the 
county for social services; 
    (g) (i) Evidence that serious consideration was given to 
the purchase of services from private and public agencies; and 
    (h) (j) Methods whereby community social service programs 
will be monitored and evaluated by the county. 
    Approved April 20, 1988