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House Journal: Page 1792: Thursday, April 20, 1995

17     Based upon a model reasonable efforts family court
18   initiative, the director of human services and the
19   chief justice of the supreme court or their designees
20   shall jointly establish and implement a statewide
21   protocol for reasonable efforts to prevent or
22   eliminate the need for placement of a child outside
23   the child's home.  In addition, the director and the
24   chief justice shall design and implement a system for
25   judicial and departmental reasonable efforts education
26   for deployment throughout the state.  The system for
27   reasonable efforts education shall be developed in a
28   manner which addresses the particular needs of rural
29   areas and shall include but is not limited to all of
30   the following topics:
31     1.  Regular training concerning mental or emotional
32   disorders which may afflict children and the impact
33   children with such disorders have upon their families.
34     2.  The duties of judicial and departmental
35   employees associated with placing a child removed from
36   the child's home into a permanent home and the urgency
37   of the placement for the child.
38     3.  The essential elements, including writing
39   techniques, in developing effective permanency plans.
40     4.  The essential elements of gathering evidence
41   sufficient for the evidentiary standards required for
42   judicial orders under this chapter.
43     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  234.7  DEPARTMENT DUTIES.
44     The department of human services shall comply with
45   all of the following requirements associated with
46   child foster care licensees under chapter 237:
47     1.  The department shall not assign more than one
48   worker to any child who is receiving child welfare
49   services, as defined in section 235.1, in a foster
50   care placement.  If the department purchases services

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 1   for the child from a private agency, the department's
 2   responsibility for case management services in the
 3   placement shall be delegated to the private agency.
 4     2.  The department shall include a child's foster
 5   parent in and provide timely notice of planning and
 6   review activities associated with the child, including
 7   but not limited to permanency planning, a clinical
 8   assessment and consultation team review or other
 9   activity, and placement review meetings."
10     3.  Page 2, by inserting after line 13 the
11   following:
12     "Sec. ___.  Section 237.15, subsection 1, Code
13   1995, is amended by adding the following new
14   paragraph:
15     NEW PARAGRAPH.  j.  A contract between the child's
16   parent, guardian, or custodian and the agency
17   responsible for creating the plan.  The contract shall

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

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