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1 1 Section 1. PREGNANT AND PARENTING MINORS – PROGRAMS.
1 2 1. The department of human services in cooperation with
1 3 the child development coordinating council, the department of
1 4 education, and the Iowa department of public health shall
1 5 adopt rules to develop and implement a pregnant and parenting
1 6 minors program. The rules shall establish criteria for the
1 7 awarding of grants and the components required of a grant
1 8 applicant for the pregnant and parenting minors program.
1 9 2. The components required of a grant applicant include,
1 10 but are not limited to, all of the following:
1 11 a. A comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to
1 12 helping pregnant and parenting minors which incorporates
1 13 community agencies and resources.
1 14 b. Provision of services including, but not limited to,
1 15 health and mental health services, home visits, support
1 16 services, prenatal care, child care, parenting skills
1 17 development, education, advocacy, counseling, employment and
1 18 training referrals, housing, and case management services.
1 19 c. A plan for implementation which coordinates the work of
1 20 the recipients of Iowa healthy family program grants,
1 21 recipients of adolescent pregnancy prevention grants, and
1 22 family resource centers to the maximum extent possible.
1 23 d. A provision for funding of the program which provides a
1 24 match of one dollar by the grant recipient for every dollar
1 25 allocated to the program by the state.
1 26 3. The department shall award grants to no more than ten
1 27 applicants who represent service areas in the state with the
1 28 highest percentage of pregnancies to minors.
1 29 4. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
1 30 state to the department of human services for the fiscal year
1 31 beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998, the
1 32 following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
1 33 used for the purpose designated:
1 34 For the funding of grants for pregnant and parenting minors
1 35 programs as described in this Act:
2 1 .................................................. $ 750,000
2 2 EXPLANATION
2 3 This bill requires the department of human services, in
2 4 cooperation with the child development coordinating council,
2 5 the department of education, and the Iowa department of public
2 6 health, to adopt rules to develop and implement, through a
2 7 grant process, a pregnant and parenting minors program in not
2 8 more than 10 areas of the state which have the highest
2 9 percentage of pregnancies to minors. The bill provides that
2 10 the rules adopted are to include the criteria to be met by a
2 11 grant recipient including the services to be provided, the
2 12 requirement of a match of one dollar by the grant recipient
2 13 for every dollar allocated by the state, and the requirement
2 14 that the grant recipient implement the program through
2 15 coordination with family resource centers and grant recipients
2 16 of the Iowa healthy family program and adolescent pregnancy
2 17 prevention program.
2 18 The bill provides an appropriation of $750,000 to the
2 19 department of human services for grants to not more than 10
2 20 programs for pregnant and parenting minors.
2 21 LSB 2622SS 77
2 22 pf/jj/8.1
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