The Florida Senate

402.3026  Full-service schools.--

(1)  The State Board of Education and the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall jointly establish full-service schools to serve students from schools that have a student population that has a high risk of needing medical and social services, based on the results of the demographic evaluations. The full-service schools must integrate the services of the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services that are critical to the continuity-of-care process. The ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall provide services to these high-risk students through facilities established within the grounds of the school. The ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services professionals shall carry out their specialized services as an extension of the educational environment. Such services may include, without limitation, nutritional services, basic medical services, aid to dependent children, parenting skills, counseling for abused children, counseling for children at high risk for delinquent behavior and their parents, and adult education.

(2)  The ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall designate an executive staff director to coordinate the full-service schools program and to act as liaison with the Department of Education to coordinate the provision of health and rehabilitative services in educational facilities.

(3)  The full-service schools program must be implemented beginning with the 1990-1991 school year and must be fully implemented by the 1995-1996 school year.

History.--s. 20, ch. 90-273; s. 122, ch. 94-209.

¹Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.