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Sec. 47.70.080. Short title. AS 47.70.010 may be cited as the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. Chapter 75. Social Services Planning. Sec. 47.75.010. Purpose. The purpose of the state plan for social services is to assess the state's needs for existing and new social services, to establish priorities among these needs, and to present an annual implemental plan to meet those needs based upon available state and federal financing with the goals of (1) achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency; (2) achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency; (3) preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families; (4) preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing alternative types of care including community-based care, home-based care, or other forms of less intensive care; and (5) securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate, or providing services to individuals in institutions. Sec. 47.75.020. State plan. (a) The department shall annually provide to the legislature a detailed state plan for the delivery of social services. It includes the following: (1) a needs analysis of social services presently provided or purchased by the state; (2) a needs analysis of social services that are not presently provided or purchased by the state or not available from any other source in the state; (3) a needs analysis of social services provided by local governments, nonprofit and charitable organizations, and profit corporations and partnerships, with an emphasis on their availability for purchase by the state; (4) a priority listing of social services to be provided or purchased by the state for the succeeding fiscal year, including (A) a justification of how each proposed social service shall meet the goals established under AS 47.75.010; (B) the categories of individuals to whom the services are to be provided, including categories based on the income of individuals or their families; (C) the geographic areas in which the services are to be provided, with the nature and amount of the services to be provided in each area; (D) a description of the planning, evaluation, and reporting activities to be carried out in