The Department, through the Division, shall:

1. Observe and study the changing nature and extent of the need for child welfare services and develop through tests and demonstrations effective ways of meeting those needs.

2. Cooperate with the Federal Government in adopting state plans, in all matters of mutual concern, including the adoption of methods of administration found by the Federal Government to be necessary for the efficient operation of programs for child welfare, and in increasing the efficiency of those programs by prompt and judicious use of new federal grants which will assist the Division in carrying out the provisions of NRS 432.010 to 432.085, inclusive, 432.400, 432.410 and 432.420. The Department shall consider any request for a change in the state plan submitted by an agency which provides child welfare services.

3. Enter into reciprocal agreements with other states relative to services for child welfare and institutional care, when deemed necessary or convenient by the Administrator.

4. Enter into agreements with an agency which provides child welfare services in a county whose population is 100,000 or more when deemed necessary or convenient by the Administrator.

5. Accept money from and cooperate with the United States or any of its agencies in carrying out the provisions of NRS 432.010 to 432.085, inclusive, 432.400, 432.410 and 432.420 and of any federal acts pertaining to public child welfare and youth services, insofar as authorized by the Legislature.

(Added to NRS by 1993, 2699; A 2001 Special Session, 30; 2005, 22nd Special Session, 45; 2011, 1777)