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Subchapter 1 - Children and Family Services
§ 9-28-101. Legislative intent and purpose - The General Assembly recognizes that the state has a responsibility...
§ 9-28-102. Creation of the Division of Children and Family Services - There is created the Division of Children and Family Services...
§ 9-28-103. Division of Children and Family Services — Powers and duties - (a) The Division of Children and Family Services of the...
§ 9-28-104. Best interest of the child - (a) The General Assembly recognizes that children are defenseless and...
§ 9-28-105. Preference to relative caregivers for a child in foster care - In all custodial placements by the Department of Human Services...
§ 9-28-106. Religious preference — Removal of barriers to inter-ethnic adoption - (a) The Department of Human Services and any other agency...
§ 9-28-107. Notice when juvenile transferred to custody of department - (a) The Department of Human Services shall exercise due diligence...
§ 9-28-108. Placement of juveniles — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Fictive kin” means...
§ 9-28-109. Notice of move in foster care placement - (a) The policy of the State of Arkansas is that...
§ 9-28-110. Smoking in the presence of foster children - The Department of Human Services shall not place or permit...
§ 9-28-111. Case plans — Definition - (a) The Department of Human Services shall be responsible for...
§ 9-28-112. Foster children and educational issues - (a) The Department of Human Services and school districts shall...
§ 9-28-113. Continuity of educational services to foster children - (a) (1) (A) It is the intent of the General...
§ 9-28-114. Foster youth transition - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Each juvenile in...
§ 9-28-115. Immunity — Definition - (a) A foster parent approved by a child placement agency...
§ 9-28-116. Restrictions on foster and adoptive parents - (a) (1) A child in the custody of the Department...
§ 9-28-117. Authority to obtain local criminal background checks - (a) Local law enforcement shall provide the Department of Human...
§ 9-28-118. Training hours for employees - All division caseworkers, supervisors, and area directors shall have at...
§ 9-28-119. Department of Human Services — Power to obtain information — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Business” means any...
§ 9-28-120. Public disclosure of information on deaths and maltreatment - (a) (1) The Department of Human Services shall place a...
Subchapter 2 - Youth Services
§ 9-28-201. Legislative intent and purpose - (a) The General Assembly recognizes that the state has a...
§ 9-28-202. Creation of the Division of Youth Services — Director - (a) There is hereby created the Division of Youth Services...
§ 9-28-203. Division of Youth Services — Powers and duties - (a) The Division of Youth Services shall perform the following...
§ 9-28-204. Observation and assessment center - (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of...
§ 9-28-205. Youth services centers - (a) The physical facilities and programs at each of the...
§ 9-28-206. Disposition of delinquent juvenile - (a) When a circuit court or any other court having...
§ 9-28-207. Commitment to the Division of Youth Services - (a) When any youth is committed to the Division of...
§ 9-28-208. Order of commitment - (a) (1) An order of commitment to the Division of...
§ 9-28-209. Commitment conditions and terms - (a) (1) Upon commitment to the Division of Youth Services...
§ 9-28-210. Release - (a) (1) In consideration of its juvenile correctional role, the...
§ 9-28-211. Escape from youth services center or facilities - (a) If any delinquent youth committed to the Division of...
§ 9-28-212. Sale of goods produced at youth services centers — Disposition of funds - All funds derived from the sale of agricultural products, livestock,...
§ 9-28-214. Penalty for escape - (a) If charged and found guilty as an adult for...
§ 9-28-215. Departure without authorization — Release of information — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “identifying and descriptive information”...
§ 9-28-216. Separation of juvenile offenders — Rules — Review - (a) The Division of Youth Services shall promulgate rules to...
§ 9-28-217. Juvenile records confidentiality - (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section,...
Subchapter 3 - Random Health Inspections of Division of Youth Services Facilities
§ 9-28-301. Inspections — Timing — Report — Audit - (a) In order to assure that juveniles committed to facilities...
§ 9-28-302. Security inspections - (a) (1) In order to assure that citizens of the...
Subchapter 4 - Child Welfare Agency Licensing Act
§ 9-28-401. Short title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Child Welfare Agency...
§ 9-28-402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Adoptive home” means a...
§ 9-28-403. Child Welfare Agency Review Board — Creation — Authority - (a) (1) There is created the Child Welfare Agency Review...
§ 9-28-404. Child Welfare Agency Review Board — Composition - (a) The Child Welfare Agency Review Board shall consist of...
§ 9-28-405. Child Welfare Agency Review Board — Duties - (a) (1) The Child Welfare Agency Review Board shall promulgate...
§ 9-28-406. Department enforcement duties - (a) (1) The Department of Human Services shall advise the...
§ 9-28-407. Licenses required and issued - (a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership,...
§ 9-28-408. Church-related exemption — Definition - (a) (1) Any church or group of churches exempt from...
§ 9-28-409. Criminal record and child maltreatment checks - (a) (1) Each of the following persons in a child...
§ 9-28-410. Voluntary respite care agreement — Exemption and penalties - (a) (1) (A) A voluntary respite care provider is exempt...
§ 9-28-415. Foster home — Care requirements and limitations - (a) A foster home shall: (1) Provide substitute care within...
Subchapter 6 - Therapeutic Group Homes and Independent Living Programs
§ 9-28-601. Legislative intent - In a significant number of cases, the health, safety, welfare,...
§ 9-28-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Division” means the Division...
§ 9-28-603. Establishment - (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of...
Subchapter 7 - Community-Based Sanctions
§ 9-28-701. Legislative findings - (a) Presently circuit judges must often choose between imposing no...
§ 9-28-702. Sanctions — Use and availability - (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of...
§ 9-28-703. Sanctions — Position - (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of...
§ 9-28-704. Contracts with community-based providers - (a) Each new professional or consultant service contract over twenty-five...
Subchapter 8 - Housing for Juvenile Offenders Between the Ages of Eighteen and Twenty-One
§ 9-28-801. Facility to house older juvenile offenders established - (a) The Division of Youth Services of the Department of...
Subchapter 9 - Foster Parent Support Act
§ 9-28-901. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 9-28-902. Findings - (a) The General Assembly finds that foster parents providing care...
§ 9-28-903. Foster parent support - Foster parents should be supported in the following manner: (1)...
Subchapter 10 - Safeguards for Children in Foster Care Act
§ 9-28-1001. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 9-28-1002. Findings and purpose - (a) The General Assembly acknowledges that society has a responsibility,...
§ 9-28-1003. Safeguards for children in foster care - (a) Special safeguards, resources, and care should be provided to...
Subchapter 12 - Youth Justice Reform Board
§ 9-28-1201. Youth Justice Reform Board — Creation — Membership - (a) To ensure statewide accountability for the delivery of youth...
§ 9-28-1202. Powers and duties — Definitions - (a) As used in this section and § 9-28-1203: (1)...
§ 9-28-1203. Savings in state costs realized from reduction in number of secure out-of-home placements - (a) (1) The Division of Youth Services shall establish a...