§ 10A-2-7-309 — Department planning process for services to children

and youth. A. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall establish a planning process that provides for collaborative ongoing planning for the development of divisional and agency goals and priorities for services to children and youth. Said planning process shall be developed with the assistance of the Policy Analysis Division or equivalent division within the Office of Juvenile Affairs and the department and division directors, other state agencies and agencies with whom the departments contract to provide services to children and youth, including designated Youth Services Agencies, and shall provide for identification and assessment of needs, establishment of goals and priorities, and program implementation and monitoring, in a manner that actively involves all divisions and units within divisions. 1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall develop a three- to five-year plan for children and youth services provided by the agency. The plan should be regularly reviewed and modified as necessary. 2. The Executive Director shall hold each department and division director accountable for the performance of the department or division in engaging collaboratively in the agency and in interagency planning with other state agencies and agencies with whom the Office of Juvenile Affairs contracts to provide services to children and youth, including Youth Services Agencies, for programs and services for children and youth. 3. The director of each division and administrator of each office shall actively participate and require the collaborative participation of department and division workers in interagency planning and coordination for children and youth services. 4. The director of each division and administrator for each office shall hold the administrator of each unit within the department or division responsible for the collaborative development and implementation of agency and division goals and priorities related to children and youth. B. The unit, division, office and agency budget recommendations of the Office of Juvenile Affairs for services to children and youth shall be based upon documented needs, and the development of budget recommendations and priorities shall be closely integrated with agency and interagency program planning and management. C. As a part of the program planning and monitoring processes of the Office of Juvenile Affairs, the Office shall examine its programs and services to children and youth to ensure that the practices within them do not operate to the detriment of minority children and youth.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1991, p. 3200, H.J.R. No. 1038, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 1991. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 352, § 85, eff. July 1, 1995. Renumbered from § 603.2 of Title 10 by Laws 1995, c. 352, § 199, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 320, § 12, emerg. eff. June 9, 2006. Renumbered from § 7302-3.9 of Title 10 by Laws 2009, c. 234, § 171, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009.