1.  A receiving center must ensure that each child placed in the care of the receiving center or referred to the receiving center for outpatient care receives, as necessary, the following services:

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(a) Mental health triage;

(b) Assessment of basic needs;

(c) Assessment of medical needs;

(d) Psychiatric evaluation;

(e) Referral to detoxification;

(f) Short-term placement;

(g) Mobile crisis response;

(h) Academic support;

(i) Preventive services for children who are at risk of commercial sexual exploitation, as defined in NRS 432C.050;

(j) Therapeutic treatment to assist the child in safely transitioning to a home-based placement; and

(k) Any other services required by the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 424.274.

2.  A receiving center may accept referrals to provide outpatient care to a child from an agency which provides child welfare services, a law enforcement agency, a community-based nonprofit organization, a provider of health care or other similar persons and entities.

3.  As used in this section, ‘provider of health care’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.