Section 26-5.3-105 - Eligibility requirements - period of eligibility - services available(1) Families with children or youth at imminent risk of out-of-home placement are eligible for emergency assistance. Assistance is available to or on behalf of a needy child or youth who is less than twenty-one years of age and any other member of the household in which the child or youth lives if:(a) The child or youth is living with kin, as defined in section 26-6-903, in a place of residence maintained by the kin;(b) Such child is without resources immediately accessible to meet the child's needs; and(c) The emergency assistance is necessary to avoid destitution or to provide living arrangements for the child in a home.(2) Assistance shall be authorized for a family no more than once during a twelve-month period.(3) Emergency assistance provided pursuant to this article 5.3 may be used for, but is not limited to: (a) Twenty-four-hour emergency shelter facilities or caretakers for children who must be removed from their homes in emergency situations;(b) Counseling, including crisis counseling available by telephone twenty-four hours a day;(c) Information referral;(d) Intensive family preservation services;(f) Services used to develop and implement a discrete case plan, as provided by the federal "Social Security Act";(g) Day treatment services for children.(h) Goods needed for the child's basic care, including beds, clothing, and transportation costs; and(i) Limited rental or housing assistance, not to exceed a sixty-day subsidy.Amended by 2024 Ch. 289,§ 4, eff. 9/1/2024.L. 93: Entire article added, p. 2000, § 1, effective June 9. L. 97: (3)(f) amended, p. 1244, § 49, effective July 1.