Title 17a, Title 17a: Social and Human Services and Resources

Sec. 17a-111b. Commissioner of Children and Families' duties re reunification of child with parent. Court determination on motion that reunification efforts are not required. Permanency plans. (a) The Commissioner of Children and Families shall make reasonable efforts to reunify …

Sec. 17a-112. (Formerly Sec. 17-43a). Termination of parental rights of child committed to commissioner. Cooperative postadoption agreements. Placement of child from another state. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. (a) In respect to any child in the custody of the …

Sec. 17a-113. (Formerly Sec. 17-43b). Custody of child pending application for removal of guardian or termination of parental rights; enforcement by warrant. When application has been made for the removal of one or both parents as guardians or of any other guardian of the person …

Sec. 17a-114. (Formerly Sec. 17-43c). Licensing or approval of persons for child placement required. Criminal history records and child abuse and neglect registry checks. Placement of children with relatives or fictive kin caregivers. Removal of children or denial of placement. S…

Sec. 17a-114a. Liability of persons for personal injury to children placed in their care. A person licensed pursuant to section 17a-114 shall be liable for any act or omission resulting in personal injury to a child placed in his or her care by the Commissioner of Children and Fa…

Sec. 17a-114b. Credit report review for youth placed in foster care. The Commissioner of Children and Families, pursuant to the federal Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act and the federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, shall reques…

Sec. 17a-114c. Approval of foster or adoptive family application when a child has died. The Commissioner of Children and Families may approve an applicant as a foster family or prospective adoptive family notwithstanding that a biological, adoptable or adopted child of the applic…

Sec. 17a-114d. Caregiver authority. Reasonable and prudent parent standard. Liability. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Caregiver” means (A) a person who holds a license issued by the Department of Children and Families to provide foster care, (B) a person who has been appr…

Sec. 17a-114e. Foster family profiles. Foster family survey. (a) On and after January 1, 2017, the Commissioner of Children and Families shall create a foster family profile on each foster family, as defined in section 17a-93, fictive kin caregiver, as defined in section 17a-114,…

Sec. 17a-114f. Notification of support for foster parents and relative caregivers. (a) Not later than January 1, 2017, the Department of Children and Families shall develop a notification of support to inform foster parents and relative caregivers of their privileges under variou…

Sec. 17a-114g. Annual report re foster care licensing practices. Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Children and Families shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Ass…

Sec. 17a-115. (Formerly Sec. 17-43d). Arrest records. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, prior to the issuance of a license or certification to any person for the care or board of a child under the provisions of section 17a-145 or for the care …

Sec. 17a-115a. Emergency placement of children. Criminal history records checks. Section 17a-115a is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5, S. 68; P.A. 13-40, S. 5; 13-80, S. 2; P.A. 24-79, S. 10.)

Sec. 17a-116. (Formerly Sec. 17-44a). “Special needs” child defined. For purposes of sections 17a-116 to 17a-119, inclusive, and subsection (b) of section 45a-111, a “special needs” child is a child who is a ward of the Commissioner of Children and Families or is to be placed by …

Sec. 17a-116a. Information handbook re adoption of children with special needs. The Department of Children and Families shall, within available appropriations, prepare an information handbook for any individual interested in adopting a child with special needs. The department and…

Sec. 17a-116b. Advisory committee promoting adoption and provision of services to minority and difficult to place children. Members, appointment, duties, reports. Section 17a-116b is repealed, effective July 1, 2009. (P.A. 99-166, S. 15; P.A. 09-205, S. 12.)

Sec. 17a-116c. Minority recruitment specialist for foster and adoptive families. Duties. Cultural sensitivity training. (a) The Commissioner of Children and Families shall, within available appropriations, require any employee of the Department of Children and Families whose duti…

Sec. 17a-116d. Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance. The Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in a form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT …

Sec. 17a-116e. Compact administrator. (a) The Commissioner of Children and Families may designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator and who shall be authorized to carry out all of the powers and duties set forth in the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical As…

Sec. 17a-117. (Formerly Sec. 17-44b). Subsidies for adopting parents. (a) The Department of Children and Families may, and is encouraged to, contract with child-placing agencies to arrange for the adoption of children who are free for adoption. If (1) a child for whom adoption is…

Sec. 17a-118. (Formerly Sec. 17-44c). Review and change in subsidy. Adoption assistance agreement and subsidy payment. (a) There shall be a biennial review of the subsidy for a child under eighteen years of age and an annual review for a child who is at least eighteen years of ag…

Sec. 17a-119. (Formerly Sec. 17-44d). Moneys for subsidies. Regulations. The Department of Children and Families shall establish and maintain an ongoing program of subsidized adoption and shall encourage the use of the program and assist in finding families for children. The comm…

Sec. 17a-120. (Formerly Sec. 17-44e). Medical expense subsidy for blind, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally maladjusted or high risk children. (a) Any child who is blind or physically disabled as defined by section 1-1f, mentally disabled, seriously emotionally maladjus…

Sec. 17a-121. (Formerly Sec. 17-44f). Prior subsidies not affected. Increases. Nothing in sections 17a-116 to 17a-120, inclusive, as amended by public act 86-330, shall affect any subsidy granted under the provisions of sections 17a-116, 17a-117, 17a-118, 17a-119 and 17a-120 prio…

Sec. 17a-121a. Counseling and referral services after adoption to certain adoptees and adoptive families. Postadoption services. The Department of Children and Families may provide counseling and referral services after adoption to adoptees and adoptive families for whom the depa…

Secs. 17a-122 to 17a-124. (Formerly Secs. 17-45, 17-46 and 17-47a). Military records of parents of state wards. Detention homes. Records confidential. Sections 17a-122 to 17a-124, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2845, 2855; 1955, S. 1477d; February, 1965, P.A. 488, S. 3; …

Sec. 17a-125. Out-of-Home Placements Advisory Council. Section 17a-125 is repealed, effective October 1, 2005. (P.A. 97-237, S. 2, 3; P.A. 03-278, S. 57, 121; P.A. 05-246, S. 18.)

Sec. 17a-126. Subsidized guardianship program. (a) As used in this section, (1) “caregiver” means (A) a fictive kin caregiver, as defined in section 17a-114, who is licensed or approved to provide foster care, and who is caring for a child, (B) a relative caregiver, which means a…

Sec. 17a-127. Development and implementation of individual service plan. Child specific team. (a) The following shall be established for the purposes of developing and implementing an individual service plan: Within available appropriations, a child specific team may be developed…

Sec. 17a-128. Liaison to Department of Social Services. The Department of Children and Families shall establish a liaison to the Department of Social Services to ensure that Medicaid-eligible children and youths receive mental health services in accordance with federal law. (P.A.…

Sec. 17a-129. Department not required to seek custody of certain children and youths. There shall be no requirement for the Department of Children and Families to seek custody of any child or youth with mental illness, emotional disturbance, a behavioral disorder or developmental…

Sec. 17a-130. Application to insurance contracts. The provisions of sections 17a-1, 17a-3, 17a-11 and sections 17a-126 to 17a-130, inclusive, shall not be construed to apply to any nongovernmental insurance policy or health care center contract or alter any contractual or statuto…

Sec. 17a-131. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training required for persons who directly supervise children. Any person who has direct supervision of children placed by the state in a state facility or private institution shall be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (P.A. 98-…

Sec. 17a-131a. Refusal to administer or consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs to children. The refusal of a parent or other person having control of a child to administer or consent to the administration of any psychotropic drug to such child shall not, in and of it…

Sec. 17a-132. Qualified residential treatment program placement. Assessment and motion for review. Regulations. (a) As used in this section, “family” or “family member” means a person related to a child by birth, marriage or other legal means, or a fictive kin caregiver, as defin…

Secs. 17a-133 to 17a-144. Reserved for future use. PART II CHILD-CARE FACILITIES AND CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES

Sec. 17a-145. (Formerly Sec. 17-48). Licensing of child care facilities. Exemptions. Designation of on-site staff person to apply reasonable and prudent parent standard. (a) No person or entity shall care for or board a child without a license obtained from the Commissioner of Ch…

Sec. 17a-146. (Formerly Sec. 17-48a). Transfer of adoption duties to Commissioner of Children and Families. No later than April 1, 1975, the Commissioner of Children and Families shall exercise and have all authority, rights, duties and functions granted to or imposed upon the Co…

Sec. 17a-147. Licensing of extended day treatment programs. (a) For the purposes of this section and section 17a-22, “extended day treatment” means a supplementary care community-based program providing a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to treatment and rehabilitation of…

Sec. 17a-148. (Formerly Sec. 17-49). When license not required; agreement for adoption. The provisions of section 17a-145 shall not apply to any person who is caring for a child without compensation and who has executed a written agreement for the adoption of such child which agr…

Sec. 17a-149. (Formerly Sec. 17-49a). Licensing of child-placing agencies. Limit on commissioner's ability to inspect. No person or entity except a parent, an adult relative as specified by section 17b-75 or guardian of any child shall place a child without a license obtained fro…

Sec. 17a-150. (Formerly Sec. 17-49b). Regulations. The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 setting forth standards for licensing of child-placing agencies, as defined in section 17a-93. Such regulations shall (1) set minimum…

Sec. 17a-151. (Formerly Sec. 17-50). Investigation. Issuance of license or provisional license. Revocation, suspension or limitation of license. Appeal. (a) The Commissioner of Children and Families shall investigate the conditions stated in each application made under the provis…

Sec. 17a-151aa. Child placed in residential facility. Written agreement re care and treatment. Out-of-state residential placements by Department of Children and Families. Visits with child. (a) Any state agency that places a child, as defined in section 17a-93, in a residential f…

Sec. 17a-152. (Formerly Sec. 17-51). Placement of child from another state. Any person or entity, before bringing or sending any child into the state for the purpose of placing or caring for such child in any home or institution, either free or for board, shall make application t…

Sec. 17a-153. (Formerly Sec. 17-52). Investigation into reported violation. Action in the name of the state. Notice. Hearing. Policy. (a) Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the Commissioner of Children and Families may, in the manner provided by law and…