KRS 211.640: Duties of cabinet.

The duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be to:

(1) Promote and develop effective programs of education, health, recreation, welfare,

public safety, and correctional services for children and youth;

(2) Conduct continuing programs of public information to educate the public as to

problems of children and youth;

(3) Assist and encourage governmental and private agencies to coordinate their efforts

on behalf of children and youth;

(4) Cooperate with the federal government and with the go vernments of other states

and cities in programs relating to children and youth;

(5) Conduct programs of research as to the needs of children and youth in order to

facilitate more comprehensive and better-related social planning and action.