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1 1 Section 1. Section 135.106, Code 1997, is amended by
1 2 striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof the
1 3 following:
1 4 135.106 IOWA HEALTHY FAMILY PROGRAM – ESTABLISHED.
1 5 1. The Iowa department of public health shall establish a
1 6 healthy opportunities for parents to experience success
1 7 (HOPES)-healthy families Iowa (HFI) program to provide
1 8 services to families and children during the prenatal through
1 9 preschool years. The program shall be designed to do all of
1 10 the following:
1 11 a. Promote optimal child health and development.
1 12 b. Improve family coping skills and functioning.
1 13 c. Promote positive parenting skills and intrafamilial
1 14 interaction.
1 15 d. Prevent child abuse and neglect and infant mortality
1 16 and morbidity.
1 17 2. The HOPES program shall be developed by the Iowa
1 18 department of public health, and may be implemented, in whole
1 19 or in part, by contracting with a nonprofit child abuse
1 20 prevention organization, local nonprofit certified home health
1 21 program or other local nonprofit organizations, and shall
1 22 include, but is not limited to, all of the following
1 23 components:
1 24 a. Identification of barriers to positive birth outcomes,
1 25 encouragement of collaboration and cooperation among providers
1 26 of health care, social and human services, and other services
1 27 to pregnant women and infants, and encouragement of pregnant
1 28 women and women of childbearing age to seek health care and
1 29 other services which promote positive birth outcomes.
1 30 b. Provision of community-based home-visiting family
1 31 support to pregnant women and new parents who are identified
1 32 through a standardized screening process to be at high risk
1 33 for problems with successfully parenting their child.
1 34 c. Provision by family support workers of individual
1 35 guidance, information, and access to health care and other
2 1 services through care coordination and community outreach,
2 2 including transportation.
2 3 d. Provision of systematic screening, prenatally or upon
2 4 the birth of a child, to identify high-risk families.
2 5 e. Interviewing by a HOPES program worker or hospital
2 6 social worker of families identified as high risk and
2 7 encouragement of acceptance of family support services.
2 8 f. Provision of services including, but not limited to,
2 9 home visits, support services, and instruction in child care
2 10 and development.
2 11 g. Individualization of the intensity and scope of
2 12 services based upon the family's needs, goals, and level of
2 13 risk.
2 14 h. Assistance by a family support worker to participating
2 15 families in creating a link to a "medical home" in order to
2 16 promote preventive health care.
2 17 i. Evaluation and reporting on the program, including an
2 18 evaluation of the program's success in reducing participants'
2 19 risk factors and provision of services and recommendations for
2 20 changes in or expansion of the program.
2 21 j. Provision of continuous follow-up contact with a family
2 22 served by the program until identified children reach age
2 23 three or age four in cases of continued high need or until the
2 24 family attains its individualized goals for health,
2 25 functioning, and self-sufficiency.
2 26 k. Provision or employment of family support workers who
2 27 have experience as a parent, knowledge of health care
2 28 services, social and human services or related community
2 29 services and have participated in a structured training
2 30 program.
2 31 l. Provision of a training program that meets established
2 32 standards for the education of family support workers. The
2 33 structured training program shall include at a minimum the
2 34 fundamentals of child health and development, dynamics of
2 35 child abuse and neglect, and principles of effective parenting
3 1 and parenting education.
3 2 m. Provision of crisis child care through utilization of
3 3 existing child care services to participants in the program.
3 4 n. Program criteria shall include a required match of one
3 5 dollar provided by the organization contracting to deliver
3 6 services for each two dollars provided by the state grant.
3 7 This requirement shall not restrict the department from
3 8 providing unmatched grant funds to communities to plan new or
3 9 expanded programs for HOPES. The department shall establish a
3 10 limit on the amount of administrative costs that can be
3 11 supported with state funds.
3 12 o. Involvement with the community assessment and planning
3 13 process in the community served by HOPES programs to enhance
3 14 collaboration and integration of family support programs.
3 15 p. Collaboration, to the greatest extent possible, with
3 16 other family support programs funded or operated by the state.
3 17 q. Utilization of private party, third party, and medical
3 18 assistance for reimbursement to defray the costs of services
3 19 provided by the program to the extent possible.
3 20 EXPLANATION
3 21 This bill provides for the establishment of a healthy
3 22 opportunities for parents to experience success (HOPES)-
3 23 healthy families Iowa (HFI) program by the Iowa department of
3 24 public health. The program shall be designed to provide
3 25 services to children and families during the prenatal through
3 26 preschool years, and is intended to promote optimal child
3 27 health and development, improve family coping skills and
3 28 functions, promote positive parenting skills and intrafamilial
3 29 interaction, and prevent child abuse and neglect and infant
3 30 mortality and morbidity. The program may be implemented
3 31 through contracting with nonprofit organizations. The bill
3 32 requires the program to include a number of specific program
3 33 components.
3 34 LSB 2597SS 77
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