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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 256D.1 CHILD AND FAMILY SUPPORT
1 2 SERVICES – NEW PROJECTS – GRANTS TO COMMUNITIES – RESOURCES
1 3 INVESTED FOR SUCCESS TRUST FUND ESTABLISHED.
1 4 1. a. The child development coordinating council
1 5 established pursuant to section 256A.2 shall develop a grant
1 6 process for the awarding of grants to agencies, individuals,
1 7 or school districts to provide services to children and
1 8 families on a school-district basis primarily for families
1 9 with children ages zero through five years of age. The
1 10 services provided shall include but are not limited to those
1 11 relating to child abuse prevention, health promotion, school
1 12 readiness, and prevention of behavioral problems. The grant
1 13 program may also provide for development of additional
1 14 services which include but are not limited to pregnancy
1 15 prevention, delinquency prevention, foster care avoidance, and
1 16 school dropout prevention.
1 17 b. The council shall develop an inventory of child and
1 18 family services existing in the state for families with
1 19 children ages zero through five and for additional services
1 20 provided for families with children older than five years of
1 21 age. The council shall perform a needs assessment of each
1 22 school district and shall develop a process for awarding of
1 23 grants based upon the needs identified.
1 24 c. An agency, individual, or school district may apply for
1 25 a grant to provide services, as identified in the needs
1 26 assessment performed by the council, to children and families
1 27 within the school district. The agency, individual, or school
1 28 district applying for a grant under this section may be
1 29 awarded an initial amount not to exceed twenty thousand
1 30 dollars for program planning.
1 31 2. The council on human investment shall develop
1 32 benchmarks for success and an evaluation component to monitor
1 33 success of the programs, for which grants are approved
1 34 pursuant to subsection 1, in attaining both short-term and
1 35 long-term goals.
2 1 3. A resources invested for success trust fund is created
2 2 as a separate fund in the office of the treasurer of state
2 3 under the control of the child development coordinating
2 4 council. The fund shall include an account for existing
2 5 programs and a grant account to be used for the awarding of
2 6 grants as provided in subsection 1 and as provided in this
2 7 subsection. Beginning July 1, 1997, there is appropriated
2 8 annually from the general fund of the state to the resources
2 9 invested for success trust fund for deposit in the existing
2 10 programs account, sixteen million six hundred thousand dollars
2 11 to be used for existing programs for children and families.
2 12 In addition, beginning July 1, 1996, there is appropriated
2 13 annually from the general fund of the state to the resources
2 14 invested for success trust fund to be deposited in the grant
2 15 account the following amounts for the following purposes:
2 16 a. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending
2 17 June 30, 1997, eight million five hundred thousand dollars.
2 18 Four million dollars shall be used to expand the Iowa healthy
2 19 families program established in section 135.106 and the
2 20 remaining moneys shall be used for the awarding of grants as
2 21 provided under subsection 1.
2 22 b. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending
2 23 June 30, 1998, seventeen million dollars to be used for the
2 24 awarding of grants under subsection 1.
2 25 c. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, and ending
2 26 June 30, 1999, twenty-five million five hundred thousand
2 27 dollars to be used for the awarding of grants under subsection
2 28 1.
2 29 d. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending
2 30 June 30, 2000, thirty-three million nine hundred thousand
2 31 dollars to be used for the awarding of grants under subsection
2 32 1.
2 33 4. The child development coordinating council, in
2 34 consultation with the council on human investment, shall
2 35 annually evaluate the programs for children and families
3 1 funded through the expenditure of moneys from the resources
3 2 invested for success trust fund and shall submit
3 3 recommendations regarding funding beyond June 30, 2000, to the
3 4 general assembly on or before December 1, 1999.
3 5 EXPLANATION
3 6 This bill requires the child development coordinating
3 7 council to develop a grant process for the awarding of grants
3 8 to agencies, individuals, or school districts to provide
3 9 services primarily for families with children from zero to
3 10 five years of age and for additional programs which address
3 11 needs of families with children older than five years of age.
3 12 An agency, individual, or school district may apply for a
3 13 grant to provide services as identified by a needs assessment
3 14 performed by the council, to children and families within a
3 15 school district. An initial grant of not more than $20,000
3 16 may be awarded to an applicant for program planning. The bill
3 17 directs the council on human investment to develop benchmarks
3 18 for success and to develop an evaluation component to monitor
3 19 the success of individual programs.
3 20 The bill also provides for a standing appropriation to be
3 21 made annually. Beginning July 1, 1996, and annually
3 22 thereafter $16.6 million is to be appropriated to the fund for
3 23 deposit in the existing program account. Beginning July 1,
3 24 1997, and thereafter, varying amounts are to be appropriated
3 25 to the fund for deposit in the grants account to a resources
3 26 invested for success (RIS) trust fund. The fund includes two
3 27 accounts. One of the accounts is to include moneys to be used
3 28 to fund existing programs for children and families and the
3 29 second account is to include moneys to be used to fund the
3 30 grant program and additional services.
3 31 LSB 4044SS 76
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