Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

(a) When a licensee violates the terms of the license, the provisions of this chapter, or any regulation thereunder, the department may pursue the administrative remedies herein provided, including the assessment of administrative penalties under the provisions of chapter 72.11 o…

(a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter, or any regulations issued pursuant to this chapter, or who shall intentionally make any false statement or reports to the director with reference to the matters contained herein, shall, upon conviction for the fir…

(a) The general assembly finds that it is in the public interest of all of the citizens of the state to provide a comprehensive, integrated system of health care and education for special needs infants, toddlers, and their families, and while the general assembly embraces this go…

The family support program shall: (1) Provide information and support to all parents with infants and toddlers that promotes the growth, health, and well-being of children and the strength and integrity of the family; (2) Provide families with a systematic, ongoing process that f…

The department of health, through the division of family health, shall serve as the principal agency responsible for the development, implementation, and management of the family support program.

(a) The department of health shall develop agreements with the department of children, youth and families, the department of elementary and secondary education, the department of human services, and the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals…

The family support program shall be within the division of family health, department of health, and shall be administered by a full-time director who shall be responsible for program administration, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

The department of health shall assume full responsibility for the collection, entry, storage, analysis, and file protection of all Level I and II needs determination information. Access to this data and preserving its confidentiality shall be subject to all existing and applicabl…

This chapter shall be known as “Project Early Start.”

The general assembly finds and declares that: (1) In 1986 twenty-one (21) Rhode Island children were born to mothers under the age of fifteen (15), fifty-nine (59) children to mothers age fifteen (15), one hundred eighteen (118) children to mothers age sixteen (16), and two hundr…

There is established under the director of the department of children, youth and families “project early start”, a community-based program, to provide both home-based and center-based activities, to address this need for early intervention. The services to be provided shall inclu…

This program shall be administered by, and shall be under the control and direction of, the state department of children, youth and families.

(a) It is the duty of the director of the department of children, youth and families to ensure that all children in the care of the state are allowed immediate admission, subject to the provisions of § 16-64-1 — § 16-64-8, to a public school in the city or town in which they are …

There is established within the executive branch of state government a children’s cabinet. The cabinet shall include, but not be limited to: the director of the department of administration; the secretary of the executive office of health and human services; the director of the d…

The children’s cabinet shall: (1) Meet at least monthly to address all issues, especially those that cross departmental lines, and relate to children’s needs and services; (2) Review, amend, and propose all interagency agreements necessary to provide coordinated services to child…

The executive office of health and human services shall provide staff support to the children’s cabinet in preparing the integrated state child service system plan as required by this chapter. All departments represented on the children’s cabinet shall cooperate with the executiv…

The Rhode Island training school for youth (RITSY) is charged with the responsibility for the custody and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, and a permanent legislative oversight commission has found, and continues to find, grave shortcomings in the rehabilitative and educatio…

The director of the department of children, youth and families shall, with full and reasonable staff and community participation, prepare a detailed comprehensive educational plan for providing adequate and appropriate educational services to all residents, without exception, of …

The comprehensive plan shall be accompanied by a detailed implementation schedule which identifies the stages of implementation, barriers to successful and necessary reform, specific strategies to be employed to overcome these barriers, and financial information detailing how res…

This chapter shall be known as the “Coordination of Children’s Community Social Services, Education, and Mental Health Services — Pilot Program.”

The department of children, youth and families shall promulgate regulations and interagency agreements necessary and sufficient to effectuate the principles and purposes of this chapter.

The director shall submit a report on the operation of this pilot project to the permanent legislative oversight commission on the department of children, youth and families no later than January 1, 2000, and the commission shall make recommendations to the general assembly regar…

There is established within the department of children, youth and families a program to be known as “coordination of children’s community social services, education, and mental health services — Pilot Program for Washington County and Pawtucket/Central Falls.”

(a) The coordination of children’s community social services, education, and mental health pilot program shall oversee children’s services councils in two (2) geographic divisions of the state. The pilot program shall be conducted in the existing Pawtucket/Central Falls local coo…

(a) Community planning team decisions about the provision of appropriate services to a child and the child's family shall be made consistent with all relevant provisions of state and federal social service, education, and mental health laws. (b) A community planning team will be …

(a) There is established a fund within the department of children, youth and families to be allocated to each of the two (2) pilot program local coordinating councils in Pawtucket/Central Falls and Washington County. This fund shall be comprised of the proportional share of funds…

The coordinated, individualized, appropriate child and family driven system of care which shall be established under the two (2) pilot program local coordinating councils shall embody the following principles: (1) Services are to be child and family driven, with priority given to…

Three percent (3%) of all funds allocated for the pilot program of coordinated community social services, education, and mental health services for children and their families pursuant to this chapter shall be utilized by the local coordinating councils for evaluation and assessm…

(a) All public agencies, which have served a family or treated a child referred to a community planning team, shall cooperate with this team. If an agency refers a child and family to the team, that agency shall be responsible for obtaining the consent required to share agency cl…

Consistent with §§ 42-72-14, 14-1-11.1, and 40-11-12.1, the receipt of services or benefits under this chapter is not conditioned upon, nor does it require, the placement of a child in the legal custody of the department.

(a) There are many children in the custody of the department of children, youth and families who have been in such custody for several years and who have no family resources or whose family has limited ability to provide funds for postsecondary education. Such children often poss…

(a) The department annually shall notify, identify, and outreach to those youth in its legal custody, beginning at age fourteen (14) and until the youth exits care, who may satisfy the eligibility requirements prescribed in § 42-72.8-2.1 for the Higher Education Opportunity Incen…

(a) To be eligible for a Higher Education Opportunity Incentive Grant, a youth: (1) Must have been in foster care in Rhode Island through the department for at least six (6) months on or after their fourteenth birthday. The six (6) months can be non-consecutive periods of foster …

(a) Grant awards shall be made by the department pursuant to its policies, procedures, rules, and regulations. (b) Cumulative grant awards shall not exceed available appropriations in any fiscal year. The department shall adopt policies, procedures, rules, or regulations, which a…

(a) The general assembly shall appropriate no less than the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) annually. No later than September 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the department shall provide an annual report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representative…

This chapter shall be known as the “Children’s Right to Freedom From Restraint Act.”

This chapter is enacted to protect and promote the right of each child who is a resident or patient in a covered facility to be free from physical or mental abuse, corporal punishment, involuntary seclusion, and any physical or chemical restraints (as defined in this chapter) imp…

For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Chemical restraint” means a medication used to control behavior or restrict the patient’s freedom of movement and is not a standard treatment for the child’s medical or psychiatric condition. (2) “Covered facility” means any agency, organiza…

(a) No service provider may use a life-threatening physical restraint on any child at any time. This section shall not be construed as limiting any defense to a criminal prosecution for the use of deadly physical force that may be available in the general laws. (b) After January …

(a) No service provider may cause the involuntary placement of a child in seclusion except as an emergency intervention to prevent immediate or imminent risk of injury to the physical safety of the child, staff, or other individuals in the facility and may not be used for discipl…

(a) Any use of physical, mechanical, or chemical restraint or seclusion on a child must be documented in the child’s medical, educational, treatment, or case record maintained by the covered facility. The documentation shall include: (1) In the case of emergency use, the nature o…

(a) Each covered facility shall: (1) Develop policies and procedures that establish monitoring, documentation, reporting, and internal review of the use of restraint and seclusion on children; (2) Require training of all service providers in the use of restraint and seclusion on …

(a) Any covered facility that does not comply with the provisions of this chapter is subject to licensing action, including, but not limited to, license revocation, by the agency or department of state government that has jurisdiction or supervisory control over the covered facil…

DCYF and MHRH shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, chapter 35 of this title, on or before January 1, 2001, to implement the intent of this chapter.

(a) Resident individual taxpayers who file a Rhode Island income tax return and who will receive a tax refund from the Rhode Island division of taxation may designate that a contribution be made to the Rhode Island council on the arts by marking the appropriate box printed on the…

Funds collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be received and distributed by the Rhode Island council on the arts.