Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.010
Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 430A.015 to 430A.080, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 430A — Family Resource Centers
Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 430A · 19 active provisions
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.015
“Action plan” defined
“Action plan” means a plan established by a family resource center, with input from the family resource center council, which describes the services to be offered by the family resource center in an at-risk community.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.020
“At-risk community” defined
“At-risk community” means a geographic area that the Director has declared to be in need of social and economic assistance and social service programs because of the number of families who reside there who: 1. Have low incomes; 2. Are transient or at imminent risk of homelessness; or 3. Have members whose ability to ex…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.030
“Director” defined
“Director” means the Director of the Department of Human Services.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.040
“Family resource center” defined
“Family resource center” means a facility within an at-risk community where families may obtain: 1. An assessment of their eligibility for social services; 2. Social services directly from the family resource center; and 3. Referrals to obtain social services from other social service agencies or organizations.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.045
“Family resource center council” defined
“Family resource center council” means an organization of people who reside in an at-risk community who assist and advise the family resource center which serves their community.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.080
“Social service agency” defined
“Social service agency” means any public agency or organization of this State that provides social services for families, including, without limitation, services relating to employment, child care, health care, substance use disorders, education or public assistance.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.100
Solicitation and acceptance of gifts and grants by Director; accounting; grants of money to family resource centers; duties of Grants Management Advisory Committee concerning allocation of money
1. The Director may solicit and accept gifts and grants of money and other property, including real property, from any public or private source and may use the property and expend the money, subject to any limitations contained in the gift or grant, to carry out the provisions of this chapter. 2. Money received by the…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.110
Power of Director to enter into contracts
The Director may enter into a contract with any person, association, government, governmental agency or political subdivision of a government to assist the Director in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.120
Director to adopt regulations
The Director shall adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The regulations must provide: 1. Criteria for evaluating and determining the geographic boundaries for at-risk communities. 2. A method for establishing family resource centers, which must include the option of desig…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.130
Solicitation and acceptance of gifts and grants by family resource centers and family resource center councils
Each family resource center and family resource center council may solicit and accept gifts and grants of money and other property, including real property, from any public or private source and may use the property and expend the money, subject to any limitations contained in the gift or grant, to carry out its functi…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.140
Family resource center required to submit action plan to Director for approval
1. Before a family resource center may obtain a grant from the Director, the family resource center: (a) Must submit to the Director an action plan created by the family resource center with input from the family resource center council and local and state elected officials who represent the geographic area in which th…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.150
Establishment of family resource center council required; compliance with Open Meeting Law
1. Each family resource center shall establish a family resource center council. The composition of the family resource center council must be consistent with the criteria set forth by regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 430A.120. 2. All meetings of a family resource center council must be conducted in accordance with…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.160
Services provided
1. Each family resource center shall provide referrals to obtain, if available, the following services: (a) Education on caring for infants and day care services for infants; (b) Education on parenting; (c) Health care services for children, including all required immunizations; (d) Programs to identify and assist infa…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.170
Case manager and administrative staff; training of case managers; duties of case manager
1. Each family resource center must have a case manager and may have a coordinator to handle administrative matters. If a family resource center does not employ a separate person to act as coordinator, the case manager shall also act as coordinator. 2. The Director shall provide training for all case managers on how to…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.180
Prohibited services and procedures; exception
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, when providing services on behalf of a family resource center which has received a grant from the Director pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, an employee or volunteer at the family resource center shall not administer drugs or contraceptives to or perform medica…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.190
Privileged communications
Except as otherwise provided by a specific statute, any communications made to or documents received by an employee or volunteer at a family resource center from a person to obtain the services of the center are privileged and may not be disclosed without the person’s consent or unless so ordered by a court of competen…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.200
Reports by family resource centers; reports by Director
1. On or before August 1 of each year, each family resource center shall submit a report to the Director summarizing its achievements and accounting for the expenditure of any money provided to it by the Director for the previous fiscal year. 2. On or before September 30 of each year, the Director shall provide a writt…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 430A.210
Social service agencies required to cooperate with family resource centers
All social service agencies shall cooperate with family resource centers in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, to the extent that doing so does not conflict with federal law or a specific state statute or administrative regulation.