Date: August 25, 2005

Child Welfare Change Notice 5-2005

Manual: Family Services, Volume 1, Children’s Services, Chapter IV, Section 1201-VIII, Adolescent Services: NC LINKS

To: County Directors of Social Services

Effective: September 1, 2005

Attached to this letter is the new LINKS policy, Chapter VIII of section 1201 of the Child Placement Manual. The policy was approved by the North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services in August 2005.

Please ensure that all staff members who have child welfare responsibility are provided copies of this material or can access it via the DSS web site. The on-line manual web address is:

http://info.dhhs.state.nc.us/olm/manuals/dss.

Once on the Division’s web page, click on “Quick Links,” then click on “Child Welfare Manual,” and click on Chapter IV, Section 1201. Section VIII of this chapter has been replaced. Any questions may be addressed to Joan McAllister, State Coordinator for NC LINKS at the Family Support and Child Welfare Services Section staff at (919) 733-2580.

Instructions

Remove

Chapter IV, Section 1201, section VIII

Insert

Chapter IV, Section 1201, section VIII

Adolescent Services: NC LINKS

Sincerely,



Jo Ann Lamm, Section Chief

Family Support and Child Welfare Services

Attachments

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