P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 444e
The Department, its instrumentalities, and officials must assume the initiative to:
(a) Facilitate and maintain ongoing efforts to integrate the perspectives of nongovernmental and community entities in the various aspects of their services.
(b) Foster participation of representative of these entities, as well as of the people who have been served by these organizations, in the planning, development, provision, and evaluation of services related to the victims and the survivors of child abuse and domestic violence.
(c) Establish collaboration agreements with nongovernmental and private entities that develop service projects for abused minors and/or their mothers who have been victims of domestic violence, as well as for abusing adults, so as to implement the public policy set out in this chapter. These agreements may be established for, but should not be limited to, the following areas: the design and establishment of procedures aimed at promoting and guaranteeing the optimum wellbeing of minors; protection and safety plans for the victims of domestic violence and their children; support services for the prevention and management of family violence, for persons, families, communities, and the country.
(d) Offer all the support that these entities need to guarantee their participation and to make possible multisector collaboration in all the enforcement aspects of this chapter, while respecting the autonomy of the organizations.
History —Aug. 1, 2003, No. 177, § 8, eff. 90 days after Aug. 1, 2003.