2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 424 - Foster Homes for Children
NRS 424.275 - Receiving center required to ensure the receipt of certain services by commercially sexually exploited children. [Effective January 1, 2022.]
1. A receiving center must ensure that each child placed in the care of the receiving center or referred to the receiving center for outpatient care receives, as necessary, the following services:
(a) Mental health triage;
(b) Assessment of basic needs;
(c) Assessment of medical needs;
(d) Psychiatric evaluation;
(e) Referral to detoxification;
(f) Short-term placement;
(g) Mobile crisis response;
(h) Academic support;
(i) Preventive services for children who are at risk of commercial sexual exploitation, as defined in NRS 432C.050;
(j) Therapeutic treatment to assist the child in safely transitioning to a home-based placement; and
(k) Any other services required by the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 424.274.
2. A receiving center may accept referrals to provide outpatient care to a child from an agency which provides child welfare services, a law enforcement agency, a community-based nonprofit organization, a provider of health care or other similar persons and entities.
3. As used in this section, "provider of health care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 2646, effective January 1, 2022)
