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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="4-402" title_number="4" title_name="Spouses" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Services to Families With Children">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To implement the policies set forth in this subtitle, the Secretary shall establish in each local department a program of services to families with children.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The program shall be available to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>those families who are receiving temporary cash assistance or Supplemental Security Income; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>those families whose gross income is 80% or less of this State’s median income adjusted for family size in accordance with regulations adopted by the Social Services Administration.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For purposes of this subtitle, services to families with children are:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>functional services to help a family resolve a situational crisis brought on by catastrophe, deprivation of income, lack of shelter, physical illness, mental illness, death, desertion, or abandonment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>family counseling:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to resolve marital conflict, familial conflict, and parent-child relationship problems; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>to teach child care and development and parenting skills;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>information and referral services to teach families how to locate and use community services, including health care services; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>home management services to teach the management of household duties and responsibilities, including budgeting skills.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
