For the purposes of this section and subsection (g) of section 3-20 and subsections (a), (b), (c), (e) and (j) of section 4b-23:

(a) “Human services” means adoption and foster care services; advocacy services; alcohol and drug abuse services; case management services; school readiness programs; Head Start programs; family resource centers; child and adult day care; community-based services; community organization services; counseling, guidance and appraisal services; day treatment services; employment, compensatory education, adult education and training; energy payment assistance; family planning services; health services; home care, management and maintenance services; housing services; human resource development services; income assistance; information and referral services; mental health services; intellectual disability services; nutrition services; parole supervision; protective services; residential treatment services; services to persons who are blind or visually impaired, persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with disabilities, the non-English-speaking and the poor; social development services; social services; special transportation services; and planning, management and evaluation activities related to the services listed in this section.

(b) “Human services agencies” means any state agency, authority, board, commission, committee, council, department, institution or office providing or having cognizance of any human services.

(c) “Colocation” means that representatives of two or more agencies are located in the same building to facilitate consumer access.

(d) “Integration of services” means providing multiproblem consumers who are receiving more than one service with coordinated intake, referral, case management and other services.

(e) Human services shall be provided, wherever feasible, through colocated sites that promote accessibility and integration of services. Each human services agency shall develop a colocation statement indicating the manner in which any planned or requested capital project or program providing intake, referral and case management services addresses the following goals: (1) Accessibility to consumers of human services who rely on public transportation; (2) ability to provide opportunities for colocation of human services agencies with each other and with federal, municipal and private agencies providing human services; (3) ability to provide opportunities for integration of services for multiproblem consumers; and (4) ability to provide cost-effective services.

(P.A. 79-239, S. 1, 2; P.A. 97-259, S. 19, 41; P.A. 11-129, S. 20; P.A. 17-202, S. 3.)

History: Sec. 4-27b transferred to Sec. 4b-31 in 1989; P.A. 97-259 amended Subsec. (a) to include school readiness programs, Head Start programs and family resource centers, effective July 1, 1997; pursuant to P.A. 11-129, “mental retardation” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “intellectual disability”; P.A. 17-202 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “the blind, the deaf, the developmentally disabled, the disabled, the hearing impaired, the visually impaired, the handicapped” with “persons who are blind or visually impaired, persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with disabilities”.