80. The mission of a local community service centre is to offer, at the primary level of care, basic health and social services, and to offer health and social services of a preventive or curative nature and rehabilitation or reintegration services to the population of the territory served by it.
To that end, an institution which operates such a centre shall see to it that the persons who require such services for themselves or for their families are contacted, assess their needs, dispense the required services in its facilities, or in the persons’ own environment, in school, at work or at home or, where necessary, refer the persons to the centres, organizations or persons best suited to assist them.
1991, c. 42, s. 80; 1998, c. 39, s. 36.