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

Sec. 17a-871. (Formerly Sec. 17a-406). Residents' advocates. Appointment, expenses, removal. Use of trained volunteers. (a) Residents' advocates shall be appointed by the State Ombudsman, in consultation with the regional ombudsmen, for each region in sufficient number to serve t…

Sec. 17a-872. (Formerly Sec. 17a-407). Residents' advocates. Training. Regulations. No person may perform any functions as a residents' advocate until the person has successfully completed a course of training required by the State Ombudsman. Any residents' advocate who fails to …

Sec. 17a-873. (Formerly Sec. 17a-408). Duties of State Ombudsman. (a) The State Ombudsman shall establish and operate ombudsman programs in this state pursuant to Sections 711 to 713, inclusive, of the federal Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended from time to time, and all reg…

Sec. 17a-873a. Managed residential community consumer guide. The State Ombudsman, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, shall develop a managed residential community consumer guide. Such guide shall contain information regarding (1) resident protections, (2) hou…

Sec. 17a-874. (Formerly Sec. 17a-409). Investigative authority. The State Ombudsman is authorized to investigate and make reports and recommendations concerning any act or the failure to act by any agency, official or public employee, with respect to their responsibilities and du…

Sec. 17a-875. (Formerly Sec. 17a-410). Duties of regional ombudsmen. The regional ombudsmen shall, in accordance with the policies and procedures established by the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman: (1) Provide services to protect the health, safety, welfare and rights of r…

Sec. 17a-876. (Formerly Sec. 17a-411). Duties of residents' advocates. Posting by nursing home facilities. Funding. (a) Residents' advocates, under supervision of the regional ombudsmen, shall assist the regional ombudsmen in the performance of all duties and responsibilities of …

Sec. 17a-877. (Formerly Sec. 17a-414). Legal counsel for residents and applicants and to assist the ombudsman and representatives of the office in performance of their official duties. Regional ombudsmen and residents' advocates considered state employees for purposes of certain …

Sec. 17a-878. (Formerly Sec. 17a-415). Powers of ombudsman and representatives. Access to records, facilities and residents. Penalty for wilful interference with representatives of office. Confidentiality. Assistance from outside persons or entities. (a) The State Ombudsman and r…

Sec. 17a-879. (Formerly Sec. 17a-416). Regulations. The Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services, after consultation with the State Ombudsman, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of sections 17a-412, 17a-413, 1…

Sec. 17a-880. (Formerly Sec. 17a-417). Additional duties of State Ombudsman. The Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services shall require the State Ombudsman to: (1) Prepare an annual report: (A) Describing the activities carried out by the office in the year for which the rep…

Sec. 17a-881. (Formerly Sec. 17a-418). State-wide uniform data system. The state agency shall establish a state-wide uniform system to: (1) Collect and analyze data relating to complaints and conditions in long-term care facilities and to residents for the purpose of identifying …

Sec. 17a-882. (Formerly Sec. 17a-419). Duties of state agency re disclosure. The state agency shall: (1) Provide that the files and records maintained by the program may be disclosed only at the discretion of the State Ombudsman or the person designated by the ombudsman to disclo…

Sec. 17a-883. (Formerly Sec. 17a-420). Consideration of outside views re planning and operating the program. In planning and operating the program, the state agency, in consultation with the State Ombudsman, shall consider the views of area agencies on aging, long-term care facil…

Sec. 17a-884. (Formerly Sec. 17a-421). Duties of state agency. The state agency shall: (1) Ensure that no individual, or member of the immediate family of an individual, involved in the designation of the State Ombudsman, whether by appointment or otherwise, or the designation of…

Sec. 17a-885. (Formerly Sec. 17a-422). State ombudsman duties re pilot program in managed residential communities. Report. (a) The Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman shall develop and implement a pilot program, within available appropriations, to provide assistance and educat…

Sec. 17a-886. Community Ombudsman program. Appointment of Community Ombudsman. Authority. Duties. Reporting. (a) As used in this section, (1) “authorized representative” means a person designated by a home care client, in writing, to act on such client's behalf, including, but no…

Sec. 17a-8b. Department to report missing and abducted children committed to custody of commissioner. The Department of Children and Families shall report any missing or abducted child who was committed to the custody of the commissioner to the law enforcement authority having ju…

Sec. 17a-9. (Formerly Sec. 17-417). Appointment of deputy commissioners, directors and administrative heads. (a) The commissioner shall appoint, after consultation with the state advisory council, and may remove in a like manner, two deputy commissioners who shall be in the uncla…

Sec. 17a-90. (Formerly Sec. 17-32). Supervision over welfare of children. Portion of cost payable by parent, collection. (a) The Commissioner of Children and Families shall have general supervision over the welfare of children who require the care and protection of the state. (b)…

Sec. 17a-91. (Formerly Sec. 17-32b). Commissioner of Children and Families' report on children committed to him and establishment of central registry and monitoring system. Section 17a-91 is repealed, effective July 1, 2011. (P.A. 73-156, S. 23; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 76-435,…

Sec. 17a-91a. Monthly report on number of children in custody of department in subacute care who cannot be discharged. Section 17a-91a is repealed, effective July 1, 2009. (P.A. 99-279, S. 2, 45; P.A. 09-205, S. 12.)

Sec. 17a-92. (Formerly Sec. 17-32c). Transfer of court wards to guardianship of Commissioner of Children and Families: Delegation of powers, duties and functions. Effective at 12:01 a.m., April 1, 1975, the Commissioner of Children and Families shall assume, and the Commissioner …

Sec. 17a-93. (Formerly Sec. 17-32d). Definitions. As used in sections 17a-90 to 17a-121a, inclusive, section 17a-132 and sections 17a-145 to 17a-153, inclusive: (1) “Child” means any person under eighteen years of age, except as otherwise specified, or any person under twenty-one…

Sec. 17a-94. (Formerly Sec. 17-34). Establishment of receiving homes. The Commissioner of Children and Families may establish, maintain and operate, throughout the state, at such locations as the commissioner finds suitable, receiving homes for children in his or her guardianship…

Sec. 17a-95. (Formerly Sec. 17-35). Religious and moral instruction. Equal privileges shall be granted to clergymen of all religious denominations to impart religious instruction to the children residing in receiving homes maintained and operated by the Commissioner of Children a…

Sec. 17a-96. (Formerly Sec. 17-36). Custodians of children to file reports. Placing of children in foster homes. The institutions having custody of such children and the agencies and persons licensed by authority of sections 17a-90 to 17a-124, inclusive, 17a-145 to 17a-153, inclu…

Sec. 17a-97. (Formerly Sec. 17-36a). Foster parent families. Section 17a-97 is repealed. (1971, P.A. 833, S. 1–3; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 521, 610; P.A. 79-631, S. 56, 111; P.A. 84-546, S. 52, 173; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-194, S. 13.)

Sec. 17a-98. (Formerly Sec. 17-37). Supervision of children under guardianship or care of commissioner. The Commissioner of Children and Families, or any agent appointed by said commissioner, shall exercise careful supervision of each child under said commissioner's guardianship …

Sec. 17a-98a. Kinship navigator program. The Department of Children and Families, in consultation with the Departments of Social Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services and Developmental Services, shall establish, within available appropriations, a kinship navigator progra…

Sec. 17a-98b. Visit to family home of child with behavioral health needs. Not later than sixty days after a child or youth with behavioral health needs, as defined in section 17a-1, is placed in the care and custody of the Commissioner of Children and Families, said commissioner …

Sec. 17a-98c. Written special requests from foster families to the department. The Department of Children and Families shall prescribe a form for foster families to use when submitting written special requests to the department including, but not limited to, requests to allow a f…

Sec. 17a-99. (Formerly Sec. 17-37a). Delegation of guardianship authority. The Commissioner of Children and Families may delegate to a deputy commissioner the commissioner's authority as guardian of children committed to the commissioner by the Superior Court, or whose guardiansh…