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Treatment of juvenile offenders—Involvement of family unit.
The department of children, youth, and families shall involve a juvenile offender's family as a unit in the treatment process. The department need not involve the family as a unit in cases when family ties have by necessity been irrevocably broken. When the natural parents have been or will be replaced by a foster family or guardian, the new family will be involved in the treatment process.
NOTES:
Effective date—2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 §§ 601-631, 701-728, and 804: See note following RCW
13.04.011.
Conflict with federal requirements—2017 3rd sp.s. c 6: See RCW
43.216.908.
Effective date—1983 c 192: See note following RCW
74.14A.020.