2007 California Government Code Article 1. General Provisions

CA Codes (gov:95000-95004.duplicate)

95000.  The Legislature finds that disabled and high-risk infants
now survive the newborn period due to greatly improved surgical and
medical care services.  However, in many communities, services that
provide the careful nurturing and stimulation that these infants need
to develop to their potential are not available.  The Legislature
hereby finds and declares that individualized early intervention
services for infants who are at high risk or who have a disabling
condition, and for their families, which provide educational,
developmental, health, and social services with active parent
involvement, can significantly reduce the potential impact of many
disabling conditions and positively influence later development when
the child reaches school age.
   The Legislature further finds that infants have unique needs and
therefore require both a unique service delivery model, which may be
different from any system currently in place in California, and
unique program and personnel standards specific to the needs of
infants who are at high risk or who have a disabling condition and
their families.
   The Legislature further acknowledges that early intervention
services are cost effective in that these services frequently make
productive citizens of children and eliminate the far greater costs
of long-term remedial treatment for, and unnecessary lifelong
dependency on, others.



95002.  It is the intent of the Legislature that those agencies
which possess the greatest expertise in providing early intervention
services to infants and their families in the past continue to
provide these services.  It is the further intent of the Legislature
that existing early intervention services rendered by state and local
public agencies and private agencies be coordinated and maximized
through interagency services with specific state and local government
responsibilities.



95003.  It is the intent of the Legislature that the State
Department of Health Services, the State Department of Developmental
Services, the State Department of Mental Health, the State Department
of Social Services, and the State Department of Education work
together to provide coordinated, interagency services to high-risk
and disabled infants and their families.



95004.  This title shall become operative upon the repeal of Title
14 (commencing with Section 95000) as added by Section 2 of Chapter
945 of the Statutes of 1993.