Maryland Family Law Section 5-524

      The Administration shall provide child welfare services to a child and the child's parent or guardian:

            (1)      to assist in preventing the necessity of placing the child outside of the child's home;

            (2)      to reunite the child with the child's parent or guardian after the child has been placed in foster care; or

            (3)      if the child has been placed in foster care and cannot return to the child's parent or guardian, to develop and implement an alternative permanent plan for the child.