                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATE AND LOCAL ADVISORY TEAM; APPOINTMENT; MEMBERSHIP (§ 2.2-5201)

The state and local advisory team is established to better serve the needs of
troubled and at-risk youths and their families by advising the Council and by
managing cooperative efforts at the state level and providing support to
community efforts. The team shall be appointed by and be responsible to the
Council. The team shall include one representative from each of the following
state agencies: the Department of Health, the Department of Juvenile Justice,
the Department of Social Services, the Department of Behavioral Health and
Developmental Services, the Department of Medical Assistance Services, the
Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and the Department of
Education. The team shall also include a parent representative who is not an
employee of any public or private program that serves children and families and
who has a child who has received services that are within the purview of the
Children&#8217;s Services Act; a representative of a private organization or
association of providers for children&#8217;s or family services; a local
Children&#8217;s Services Act coordinator or program manager; a juvenile and
domestic relations district court judge; a representative who has previously
received services through the Children&#8217;s Services Act, appointed with
recommendations from entities including the Departments of Education and Social
Services and the Virginia Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness;
and one member from each of five different geographical areas of the
Commonwealth who is representative of one of the different participants of
community policy and management teams pursuant to § 2.2-5205. The nonstate
agency members shall serve staggered terms of not more than three years, such
terms to be determined by the Council.
		The team shall annually elect a chairman from among the local government
representatives who shall be responsible for convening the team. The team shall
develop and adopt bylaws to govern its operations that shall be subject to
approval by the Council. Any person serving on such team who does not represent
a public agency shall file a statement of economic interests as set out in §
2.2-3117 of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act (§
2.2-3100 et seq.). Persons representing public agencies shall file such
statements if required to do so pursuant to the State and Local Government
Conflict of Interests Act.

HISTORY: 1992, cc. 837, 880, § 2.1-747; 2000, c. 937; 2001, c. 844; 2003, c.
499; 2004, c. 836; 2009, cc. 813, 840; 2015, cc. 366, 526; 2016, c. 443; 2023,
c. 567.