As used in this chapter, unless the
context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 430A.015
to 430A.080 , inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to
them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2765; A 2005, 467 )
“Action plan” means a plan
established by a family resource center, with input from the family
resource center council, which describes the services to be offered by
the family resource center in an at-risk community.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 467 )
“At-risk community”
means a geographic area that the Director has declared to be in need of
social and economic assistance and social service programs because of the
number of families who reside there who:
1. Have low incomes;
2. Are transient; or
3. Have members whose ability to excel in academics, work and
social situations is impaired by the educational, economic and social
situation of the family as a unit.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2766; A 2005, 467 )
“Director” means the Director of
the Department of Health and Human Services.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2766)
“Family resource
center” means a facility within an at-risk community where families may
obtain:
1. An assessment of their eligibility for social services;
2. Social services; and
3. Referrals to obtain social services from other social service
agencies or organizations.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2766; A 2005, 467 )
“Family
resource center council” means an organization of people who reside in an
at-risk community who assist and advise the family resource center which
serves their community.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2766; A 2005, 467 )—(Substituted in revision for NRS 430A.070)
Repealed. (See
chapter 137, Statutes of Nevada 2005, at page 475 .)
Repealed. (See
chapter 137, Statutes of Nevada 2005, at page 475 .)
[Replaced in
revision by NRS 430A.045 .]
“Social service
agency” means any public agency or organization of this state that
provides social services for families, including, without limitation,
services relating to employment, child care, health care, drug abuse,
education or welfare.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2766)
Repealed. (See chapter 137, Statutes of
Nevada 2005, at page 475 .)
1. The Director may solicit and accept gifts and grants of money
and other property, including real property, from any public or private
source and may use the property and expend the money, subject to any
limitations contained in the gift or grant, to carry out the provisions
of this chapter.
2. Money received by the Director pursuant to this section must be
accounted for separately in the State General Fund. The money in the
account does not revert to the State General Fund at the end of any
fiscal year and must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
3. The Director may make grants of money from the account to
family resource centers to pay for any expenses incurred by those centers
in carrying out their responsibilities, and may place such conditions on
the acceptance of those grants as he determines are necessary, including
requiring a center to provide matching money.
4. The Advisory Committee shall review all requests for grants of
money to family resource centers and shall make recommendations to the
Director concerning the allocation of money in the account.
5. As used in this section, “Advisory Committee” means the Grants
Management Advisory Committee created by NRS 232.383 or a working group of the Grants Management
Advisory Committee that is appointed pursuant to NRS 232.387 .
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2768; A 2005, 468 )
The
Director may enter into a contract with any person, association,
government, governmental agency or political subdivision of a government
to assist him in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2769; A 2005, 468 )
The Director shall
adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of
this chapter. The regulations must provide:
1. Criteria for evaluating and determining the geographic
boundaries for at-risk communities.
2. A method for establishing family resource centers, which must
include the option of designating existing organizations as family
resource centers.
3. Criteria for evaluating and approving action plans. The
criteria must provide that no action plan will be approved unless it is:
(a) Tailored to meet the specific needs of the community;
(b) Developed with input from members of the family resource center
council; and
(c) Feasible in relation to the resources available to the family
resource center to which the action plan applies.
4. Criteria for the establishment and composition of a family
resource center council.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2769; A 2005, 468 )
Each family
resource center and family resource center council may solicit and accept
gifts and grants of money and other property, including real property,
from any public or private source and may use the property and expend the
money, subject to any limitations contained in the gift or grant, to
carry out its functions.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2769; A 2005, 468 )
1. Before a family resource center may obtain a grant from the
Director, the family resource center:
(a) Must submit to the Director an action plan created by the
family resource center with input from the family resource center
council; and
(b) Must obtain approval from the Director of that action plan.
2. An action plan must be resubmitted to the Director for his
approval:
(a) On or before July 1 of each year; and
(b) Any time the family resource center adopts a proposed amendment
to the action plan.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2767; A 2005, 469 )
1. Each family resource center shall establish a family resource
center council. The composition of the family resource center council
must be consistent with the criteria set forth by regulations adopted
pursuant to NRS 430A.120 .
2. All meetings of a family resource center council must be
conducted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 241 of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2767; A 2005, 469 )
1. Each family resource center shall provide referrals to obtain,
if available, the following services:
(a) Education on caring for infants and day care services for
infants;
(b) Education on parenting;
(c) Health care services for children, including all required
immunizations;
(d) Programs to identify and assist developmentally disabled
infants and young children of up to 5 years of age;
(e) Day care for children who are old enough to attend school, both
before and after school;
(f) Programs to assist senior citizens;
(g) Programs to supplement formal education, including, without
limitation, mentor programs for pupils in elementary and secondary
schools, literacy programs, programs that encourage parental involvement
in school, programs that teach English as a second language, programs to
assist in the naturalization process and other alternative educational
programs;
(h) Programs to teach adults and children skills for employment and
self-sufficiency;
(i) Services that will assist families with physical and mental
health issues, the special needs of children, food and nutritional needs,
recreational needs, housing problems, domestic violence and substance
abuse;
(j) Programs designed to reduce the rate of pregnancies in
unmarried teenage girls;
(k) Programs designed to reduce the rate at which pupils drop out
of school;
(l) Transportation services, particularly to assist people in
traveling to the social service agencies from which they may be receiving
services pursuant to this section;
(m) Classes that teach alternative means of resolving disputes that
arise in the family; and
(n) Any other services for which the communities that the family
resource center serves have a need.
2. Each family resource center may offer services directly through
its own employees and resources or contract with social service agencies
to provide services, or may do both.
3. Any family resource center that offers services directly
through its own employees and resources shall comply with all applicable
state and federal laws and regulations regarding the delivery of the
services.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2767; A 2005, 469 )
1. Each family resource center must have a case manager and may
have a coordinator to handle administrative matters. If a family resource
center does not employ a separate person to act as coordinator, the case
manager shall also act as coordinator.
2. The Director shall provide training for all case managers on
how to assess the needs of families using the family resource center.
3. The case manager shall, for each family that seeks services
from the center, develop a plan with the family which specifies:
(a) The services for which the family is eligible;
(b) Whether the family will receive services from the family
resource center or a social service agency, or both;
(c) The responsibilities the family members must fulfill to remain
eligible for the services; and
(d) The manner in which the performance of responsibilities by the
agency and the family members will be monitored.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2767)
When providing
services on behalf of a family resource center which has received a grant
from the Director pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, an employee
or volunteer at the family resource center shall not administer drugs or
contraceptives to or perform medical or dental procedures for a minor
unless written consent to administer those drugs or contraceptives or to
perform those procedures has been obtained from the minor’s parent,
guardian or legal custodian.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2768)
Except as otherwise
provided by a specific statute, any communications made to or documents
received by an employee or volunteer at a family resource center from a
person to obtain the services of the center are privileged and may not be
disclosed without the person’s consent or unless so ordered by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2768)
1. On or before August 1 of each year, each family resource center
shall submit a report to the Director summarizing its achievements and
accounting for the expenditure of any money provided to it by the
Director for the previous fiscal year.
2. On or before September 30 of each year, the Director shall
provide a written report to the Interim Finance Committee concerning the
expenditure during the preceding fiscal year of all money received by the
Director for carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2769; A 2005, 470 )
All social service agencies shall cooperate with
family resource centers in carrying out the provisions of this chapter,
to the extent that doing so does not conflict with federal law or a
specific state statute or administrative regulation.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2769; A 2005, 470 )
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