CHAPTER 108

H.P. 614 - L.D. 863

Resolve, To Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Service

Reforms and System Improvements Regarding Children's

Services Provided by the Department of Health and Human

Services

Sec. 1. Comprehensive plan. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall develop a comprehensive plan for service reforms and system improvements regarding children's services provided by the department. The department shall develop the plan in collaboration with consumers, families, providers and advocates. The plan must address, at a minimum, children's services delivery structures, financing of these services, quality assurance and quality improvement strategies to be reflected as part of the management of the system and must include the following components.

1. Systems values and standards. There must be a system for children's services that is based on those values and standards already adopted by the State, including the values and standards reflecting the beliefs that:

A. Prevention is an essential component in the health and well-being of children;

B. The safety of children is paramount and must inform decisions made across all sectors of the service system;

C. A flexible, individualized system of services and supports is essential so that all families and children are able to identify their strengths and needs;

D. Families must be, to the extent possible, the drivers of their own plans of services and supports;