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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2232
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Patterson, Cooke, H. Myers, Conway, Roland, L. Johnson, Brough, J. Kohl, Wineberry and Thibaudeau)
Read first time 01/31/94.
AN ACT Relating to therapeutic child care services; amending RCW 74.14B.040; amending 1993 sp.s. c 24 s 202 (uncodified); creating a new section; and making an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that therapeutic child care services have been shown to be effective in preventing delinquent and aggressive behavior, drug and alcohol use, and involvement in violent crime by children who have been abused or neglected. The legislature further finds that state general fund savings will be realized beginning in the current biennium through the receipt of federal medical assistance matching payments for therapeutic child care services. It is the intent of the legislature that these general fund state savings be used to continue to support abused or neglected children who have received intensive therapeutic child care services and are living with their parents, other family members, or in foster care.
Sec. 2. RCW 74.14B.040 and 1987 c 503 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department shall, within funds
appropriated for this purpose, provide therapeutic ((day)) child
care and day treatment to children who have been abused or neglected and meet
program eligibility criteria.
(2) As used in this section, "therapeutic child care" means services provided to abused or neglected children, one month through five years of age, and their families referred by child protective services in the context of a child care setting to protect children from further maltreatment and remediate the effects of past maltreatment. Such services shall include, but are not limited to: Transportation to and from the therapeutic child care program; development and implementation of an individualized developmental plan for each child served in the program; counseling and parent instruction for the family; play therapy for the child; physical examinations and nursing services; and home visits. Counseling and parent instruction in the home setting may be provided as transitional services to children and families who are no longer receiving therapeutic services at the site of the therapeutic child care program.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. An additional six hundred thousand dollars of the general fund-state savings assumed in section 201, chapter . . . (House Bill No. 2299), Laws of 1994 by the receipt of additional general fund-federal funds shall be used to provide therapeutic child care transitional services to children and families who are no longer receiving therapeutic services at the site of the therapeutic child care program.
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