The commissioner may work in partnership with health care providers and community organizations to provide parent information to parents of newborns at the time of birth. The commissioner may coordinate the partnership and the distribution of informational material to the parents of newborns before they leave the hospital with early childhood organizations, including, but not limited to, early childhood family education, child care resource and referral, and interagency early intervention committees. The commissioner may develop a resource website that promotes, at a minimum, the department website for information and links to resources on child development, parent education, child care, and consumer safety information.
History:2006 c 282 art 2 s 6