§ 10210.301. Duties of department and agencies
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 35 P.S. Health and SafetyEffective: April 7, 2011
Effective: April 7, 2011
35 P.S. § 10210.301
§ 10210.301. Duties of department and agencies
(4) The department shall conduct an ongoing campaign designed to inform and educate adults, families, caregivers, professionals and the general public about the need for and availability of protective services under this chapter. The campaign shall require facilities to post notice of the availability of protective services and to provide the notice to recipients and their families. The department shall consult with other departments of the Commonwealth on the design and implementation of the ongoing public awareness campaign. The department shall also consider the concerns of agencies and entities identified by them under subsection (b).
(5) The department shall establish, by regulation, minimum standards of training and experience that agencies funded by the department shall follow in the selection and assignment of staff for the provision of protective services. The standards shall require agencies to collaborate with adults, their families and advocates, and the standards shall be included in developing and delivering training.
(7) The department shall work with the Department of Aging to provide coordination with the Older Adults Protective Services system and to ensure that adults who are the subject of a protective services report at the time of their 60th birthday have continuity in the delivery of protective services.
(1) Describe the implementation of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the organization, staffing, mode of operations and financing of protective services, as well as the provisions made for purchase of services, interagency relations, interagency agreements, service referral mechanisms and locus of responsibility for cases with multiservice agency needs.
The agency shall submit the list to the department for purposes of the public information campaign under subsection (a).
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2010, Oct. 7, P.L. 484, No. 70, § 301, effective in 6 months [April 7, 2011].
35 P.S. § 10210.301, PA ST 35 P.S. § 10210.301
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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