Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) To receive and
maintain the Departments' approval, County Human Services Advisory Councils
shall contain the required membership delineated in (a)1 through 3 below. The
categories of membership in (a)4 through 7 below are strongly recommended. All
categories of membership may be included as voting members with the exceptions
noted below.
1. Public and private provider
representation shall be comprised of both public and private human services
provider representatives. Provider representation shall include employees,
board members, or volunteers of an entity, which holds a contract with the
Departments. Provider representative membership shall represent as many target
populations and service areas encompassed by the Departments as possible and it
shall not exceed 49 percent of the total membership. Representation shall
include:
i. The County Freeholder or County
Executive, or a designee, as an ex-officio, voting or non-voting member (county
choice);
ii. The county welfare
agency (or its county equivalent) Director or designee;
iii. The Departments' representatives
assigned to the county to oversee/monitor CHSAC contracted activities, as
ex-officio, non-voting members;
iv.
Representatives from various Divisions of the Departments, as ex-officio,
non-voting members; and
v. A
representative from the Workforce Investment Board;
2. Consumer, consumer advocate and family
member representation shall be at least 25 percent of the total council
membership. Consumer, consumer advocates and family members shall represent a
cross-section of the local human services community and target populations, as
defined in
10:2-1.2. A consumer member of a
provider Board will be considered a "consumer," as long as that provider does
not hold a seat on the CHSAC. No provider agency shall have more than one vote
on a CHSAC;
3. Voting members shall
reflect the county's ethnic and racial populations as determined by the latest
census data and service population;
4. Representation may include voluntary
sectors, such as private planning councils, faith-based organizations and major
donors or funders of local human services and major geographic
subdivisions;
5. Representation for
youth concerns is strongly recommended to include representatives of boards and
commissions, which represent the needs of at-risk children and youth (such as
the County Youth Services Commissions, the County Inter-Agency Coordinating
Councils (CIACCs), Children's Behavioral Health Service System-Care Management
Organization (CMO), County Commissions on Child Abuse and Missing Children or
representatives of youth organizations;
6. Representatives from other county-level
advisory boards and commissions; and
7. Non-New Jersey Department of Human
Services' service network representation may include a local public housing
agency representative and may include the areas of employment, aging (area
agency on aging), health (county and local health offices), substance abuse,
education, community action and community development organizations, legal aid
and vocational rehabilitation. Other representation may include those who the
county believes would provide a valuable contribution to human services
planning (for example: labor unions, private businesses, and
foundations).
(b) Only
voting members of the CHSAC shall be counted in the determination of the
demographic composition of the Council.
(c) CHSACs shall establish staggered terms
for members, including a provision to ensure that no member subject to term
limits holds more than two consecutive three-year terms. After serving six
years, a member can be re-appointed after a period of one year has elapsed.
Term limits shall not apply to the following categories: County Freeholder or
County Executive, county welfare agency (CWA) Director or equivalent,
Department Representative, or Departments' Division representatives. Consumers,
consumer advocates and family members may also be exempted from term limits
(county choice).
