Establishes a program to provide services to families of certain children with a mental illness or emotional disturbance. (BDR 39-1000)

AN ACT relating to mental health; establishing a task force to develop a program to prevent the relinquishment of custody of certain children to an agency which provides child welfare services or the voluntary placement of such children with a public or private agency or institution because of a need for services for a mental illness or emotional disturbance; requiring an agency which provides child welfare services to report certain information concerning the relinquishment of custody of children to the agency and the voluntary placement of children with the agency; requiring the Department to report to the Legislature certain information concerning such relinquishment and placement and the effectiveness of the program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.