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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 07.03.08.05" title_num="07" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="08" heading="Services in Emergency Services to Families with Children.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Referral for appropriate services such as information, referral, counseling, securing shelter, and child care shall be made for problems attributable to the emergency or crisis situation and aimed towards reducing the prospect for recurrence of emergencies.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>ESFC services provided for eligible children may include, but are not limited to, appropriate:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Purchased preventive services to families experiencing an emergency to prevent child abuse, neglect, or abandonment, or to prevent an at-risk child from being placed in out-of-home care; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Reunification services for families where children have been abandoned or placed out-of-home due to abuse, neglect, or imminent threat of these.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>