2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-121g. Program of services for AIDS-affected children and youth.
Sec. 19a-121g. Program of services for AIDS-affected children and youth. (a)
The Commissioner of Public Health shall establish and administer a program of services
for children and youth who experience the illness or death of one or more family members to HIV disease. The commissioner shall, within available appropriations, annually
provide funds for pilot projects, for purposes of the program, with local providers of child
mental health services and AIDS services in the four areas of greatest AIDS prevalence in
the state to establish and provide culturally-appropriate therapeutic support groups and
outpatient and in-home mental health services, and to provide transportation to such
services for children and youth. Contracts with such providers shall require collaboration
between child mental health service providers and local AIDS service providers in the
design and delivery of services to AIDS-affected children and their families. Eligibility
for such services shall be limited to children who lack private, third-party insurance that
covers such services and whose family income is equal to or less than two hundred fifty
per cent of the federal poverty level, as well as to children eligible for Medicaid to the
extent that Medicaid does not wholly cover the services provided through this program.
(P.A. 96-238, S. 24, 25.)
History: P.A. 96-238 effective June 4, 1996.
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