Acts and Legislation

Comprehensive Service Act

The Comprehensive Services Act, a Virginia Law developed by the General Assembly in 1993, provides the pathway and the funding for our high-risk children who are mandated for services or targeted for services. The mandated population includes those children who are:

• In foster care
• Who are seriously emotionally disturbed, or
• At risk of entering foster care.

The program is child centered and offers many options of local wrap-around services to prevent costly out-of-home placements.

The purpose of the act is to provide the least restrictive, high quality, child centered, family focused, cost effective, community-based services to high-risk youth and their families. The funds are managed at the local level and require a local match in order to access the state funds.

For more information, please contact Letitia Douthit, Orange County CSA Coordinator, or visit the state website.