                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT (§ 63.2-226)

A. The Department shall assume administrative responsibilities for the statewide
system. In this capacity, the Department shall establish an office to:

   1. Develop a plan for the design and implementation of a statewide human
   services information and referral program;

   2. Coordinate and supervise the implementation and operation of the
   information and referral program;

   3. Coordinate funding for the system;

   4. Select regional providers of information and referral services;

   5. Supervise coordination of information management among information and
   referral regions across the Commonwealth;

   6. Encourage effective relationships between the system and state and local
   agencies and public and private organizations;

   7. Develop and implement a statewide publicity effort;

   8. Provide training, technical assistance, research, and consultation for
   regional and local information and referral centers, and to localities
   interested in developing information and referral services;

   9. Determine a core level of services to be funded from state government
   resources;

   10. Coordinate standardization of resource data collection, maintenance and
   dissemination;

   11. Stimulate and encourage the availability of statewide information and
   referral services;

   12. Develop and implement a program for monitoring and assessing the
   performance and success of the information and referral program; and

   13. Collect information on child-specific payments made through the Title IV-E
   foster care program and submit information, when available, to the Office of
   Children&#8217;s Services.

B. The Department, in consultation with the Virginia Employment Commission and
Virginia Community College System, shall develop and implement a plan for the
provision to citizens receiving any form of public assistance of information
regarding courses on financial literacy, offered online or through any other
appropriate medium, that are available to such citizens at no cost to them.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 402, § 63.1-314.5; 1990, c. 915; 2002, c. 747; 2003, cc. 54,
75; 2008, c. 277; 2015, cc. 366, 521.