In addition to the ICPC, three (3) other interstate compacts were enacted to coordinate the interstate placements of children and juveniles as follows:
(1)
- (A) The Interstate Compact for Juveniles, Arkansas Code § 9-29-401.
- (B) This compact is designed to serve those children/youth needing an out-of-state placement who have been adjudicated delinquent and who have been placed on probation or parole.
- (C) This compact also provides for the return of nondelinquent runaways, escapees, and absconders.
- (D) This includes foster children/youth who run away and are located out-of-state.
- (E) The Interstate Compact for Juveniles is administered by the Division of Youth Services;
(2)
- (A) The Interstate Compact on Mental Health, Arkansas Code § 20-50-101 et seq.
- (B) This compact is designed to facilitate the transfer of resident patients (both children and adults) from a state-operated mental health facility in one (1) state to a similar state-operated facility in another state.
- (C) The Mental Health Compact is administered by the Division of Aging Adult and Behavioral Health Services; and
(3)
- (A) The Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance, Arkansas Code § 9-29-301.
- (B) This compact is for adoption assistance for IV-E eligible children who are under an adoption subsidy agreement.
- (C) The adoption worker should notify the Adoption Subsidy Coordinator as soon as it is known that an adoptive family/child is moving out of state or has moved.
- (D) The Adoption Subsidy Coordinator will send information to the new state of residence and to the adoptive parents advising them to contact the local Medicaid office in their new state of residence.
- (E) This contact will be for the purpose of getting medical benefits for their child in the new state of residence.