A. The department shall, subject to the availability of resources, design and implement a referral process to assist a child or family in accessing appropriate services.
B. When the child involved in the referral process is an Indian child, the assessment and referral process shall include contact with the Indian child's tribe for the purpose of consulting and exchanging information.
History: 1978 Comp., § 32A-3A-4, enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 77, § 66; 1995, ch. 206, § 18; 2005, ch. 189, § 28.
The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, in Subsection A, deleted the requirement that the state department of public education [public education department] and the department of health cooperate to design and implement an assessment and referral process for the purpose of assessing the needs of a family in need of services and making referrals; deleted former Subsections B and C, which provided for the elements of the assessment and referral process; and redesignated former Subsection D as Subsection B.
The 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1995, added "the department, the state department of public education [public education department], the local education agency and the department of health" following "child's family" in Subsection C.
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