§ 50-06.2-01 — Purpose - Interpretation

North Dakota § 50-06.2-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 50: Public Welfare
• Ch. 50-06.2: Comprehensive Human Services Programs

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It is the purpose of this chapter to establish a system for planning, coordinating, and
providing comprehensive human services administered by human service zones and state-
operated behavioral health clinics. This chapter must be construed to effectuate the following
public purposes:
1. To help individuals or their families to achieve, maintain, or support the highest
attainable level of personal independence and economic self-sufficiency.
2. To prevent, remedy, or alleviate neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults
unable to protect their own interests.
3. To provide a continuum of community-based services adequate to appropriately
sustain individuals in their homes and in their communities and to delay or prevent
institutional care.
4. To preserve, rehabilitate, and reunite families.
5. To assist in securing referral or admission of individuals to institutional care when other
forms of care are not appropriate.