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2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 4b-31. (Formerly Sec. 4-27b). Colocation and integration of human services.
Sec. 4b-31. (Formerly Sec. 4-27b). Colocation and integration of human services. For the purposes of this section and subsection (g) of section 3-20 and subsections
(a), (b), (c), (e) and (j) of section 4b-23:
(b) "Human services agencies" means any state agency, authority, board, commission, committee, council, department, institution or office providing or having cognizance of any human services.
(c) "Colocation" means that representatives of two or more agencies are located in the same building to facilitate consumer access.
(d) "Integration of services" means providing multiproblem consumers who are receiving more than one service with coordinated intake, referral, case management and other services.
(e) Human services shall be provided, wherever feasible, through colocated sites that promote accessibility and integration of services. Each human services agency shall develop a colocation statement indicating the manner in which any planned or requested capital project or program providing intake, referral and case management services addresses the following goals: (1) Accessibility to consumers of human services who rely on public transportation; (2) ability to provide opportunities for colocation of human services agencies with each other and with federal, municipal and private agencies providing human services; (3) ability to provide opportunities for integration of services for multiproblem consumers; and (4) ability to provide cost-effective services.
(P.A. 79-239, S. 1, 2; P.A. 97-259, S. 19, 41.)
History: Sec. 4-27b transferred to Sec. 4b-31 in 1989; P.A. 97-259 amended Subsec. (a) to include school readiness programs, Head Start programs and family resource centers, effective July 1, 1997.
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