ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 536

CHAPTER 536
(House Bill 1146)

AN ACT concerning

Juvenile Causes - Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Uniform Plan for a

System of Outcomes Evaluation

FOR the purpose of requiring the Office for Children, Youth, and Families, the
Department of Juvenile Services, the Department of Human Resources, the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Developmental Disabilities
Administration, and the State Department of Education to develop, test, and
implement to plan and determine the cost of testing and implementing a certain
systematic evaluation of services provided to children in out-of-home
placement; providing for the Office for Children, Youth, and Families to serve as
the lead agency to develop plan and determine the cost of implementing the
uniform system of outcomes evaluation; providing for the Department of Human
Resources, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Developmental
Disabilities Administration, the State Department of Education, the
Department of Juvenile Services, and the Office for Children, Youth, and
Families to serve as cooperating departments; establishing the purpose of the
system as a method of evaluating the value of services to children in
out-of-home placement and the resulting outcomes for the children; requiring
authorizing the departments to consult with certain resources in higher
education in developing and implementing planning the system; requiring the
departments, in developing the plan, to maintain ensure the confidentiality of
certain personal information concerning children in out-of-home placement;
requiring the cooperating departments, in developing the plan, to facilitate
ensure the participation of their residential facilities and the facilities operated
by private agencies with which the cooperating departments contract in
providing necessary data to the system; requiring the departments to meet
certain completion and implementation planning and reporting goals on or
before certain dates; requiring the Governor and secretary of each cooperating
department to include certain funds in the budget for each department;
requiring the departments to submit certain reports a certain plan and a certain
report to the General Assembly on or before certain dates a certain date;
requiring the cooperation of certain departments in developing planning the
system; defining certain terms; making a stylistic change; and generally
relating to developing planning a uniform system of evaluating the performance
of services to and resulting outcomes for children in out-of-home placement.

BY adding to

Article 49D - Office for Children, Youth, and Families

Section 12

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2003 Replacement Volume)

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