Establishes the office of the child welfare advocate to provide support to youth, biological parents, kinship caregivers and foster parents including prospective kinship caregivers or foster parents.
Expands the right to assistance of counsel to include respondents in guardianship proceedings and kinship caregivers in custody and guardianship proceedings.
Relates to dementia care; establishes a dementia care coordinator in the state office for the aging to manage the work of dementia care navigators; requires each area agency to employ a dementia care navigator; sets forth the duties of the dementia care coordinator and dementia care navigators.
Relates to dementia care; establishes a dementia care coordinator in the state office for the aging to manage the work of dementia care navigators; requires each area agency to employ a dementia care navigator; sets forth the duties of the dementia care coordinator and dementia care navigators.