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1 1 Section 1. SCHOOL READY CHILDREN GRANTS – HOME VISITATION
1 2 AND PARENT SUPPORT GRANTS. There is appropriated from the
1 3 general fund of the state to the Iowa empowerment fund created
1 4 in section 7I.8 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999,
1 5 and ending June 30, 2000, the following amounts, or so much
1 6 thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
1 7 designated:
1 8 1. To be credited to the school ready children grants
1 9 account to be used for the second year of school ready
1 10 children grants initially awarded in the fiscal year beginning
1 11 July 1, 1998:
1 12 .................................................. $ 5,200,000
1 13 2. To be credited to the home visitation and parent
1 14 support services program account created by this Act:
1 15 .................................................. $ 4,000,000
1 16 The services funded under this subsection shall conform
1 17 with the requirements for home visitation and parent support
1 18 services developed in accordance with section 7I.7A, as
1 19 enacted by this Act.
1 20 The funding appropriated in this subsection shall be
1 21 subject to a distribution formula which provides an initial
1 22 allocation of moneys among the political subdivisions of this
1 23 state. Fifty percent of the moneys shall be allocated based
1 24 upon a political subdivision's proportion of the state's
1 25 general population of persons who are less than forty years of
1 26 age and 50 percent of the moneys shall be allocated based upon
1 27 a political subdivision's proportion of the state's population
1 28 of children from age birth to three years in families with an
1 29 annual income which is equal to or less than 185 percent of
1 30 the federal poverty level as estimated by the Iowa department
1 31 of public health. Only a community empowerment area
1 32 designated by the Iowa empowerment board but not fully funded
1 33 for a school ready children grant as of January 1, 2000, may
1 34 apply for the funding allocated for the political subdivisions
1 35 encompassed by the community empowerment area. The initial
2 1 allocation shall be adjusted to reflect current state funding
2 2 in the community empowerment area for HOPES-HFI programs under
2 3 section 135.106 and child development coordinating council
2 4 grants for providing educational support services to parents
2 5 of children age birth through three years. Moneys not
2 6 distributed due to these adjustments shall be reallocated
2 7 using the distribution formula for those areas which do not
2 8 receive funding under the other state grant programs. Moneys
2 9 initially allocated for an area for which an application was
2 10 not received, shall remain available in the account for
2 11 distribution under the formula in the succeeding fiscal year.
2 12 3. For funding of technical assistance and for development
2 13 of the requirements for home visitation and parent support
2 14 services developed in accordance with this Act:
2 15 .................................................. $ 200,000
2 16 Moneys appropriated in this subsection may be transferred
2 17 to the appropriate state agency, subject to the notification
2 18 and reporting requirements under section 8.39.
2 19 4. The Iowa empowerment board and the departments of
2 20 education, human services, and public health shall make every
2 21 effort to reduce or eliminate duplicative requirements that
2 22 are barriers to community efforts to improve the efficiency
2 23 and effectiveness of grants funded under this section and of
2 24 other local education, health, and human services programs.
2 25 Sec. 2. AT-RISK CHILDREN. There is appropriated from the
2 26 general fund of the state to the department of education in
2 27 addition to other funding appropriated in section 279.51 for
2 28 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30,
2 29 2000, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
2 30 necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
2 31 For expansion of grants by the child development
2 32 coordinating council to programs for three and four-year-old
2 33 children deemed at-risk:
2 34 .................................................. $ 1,000,000
2 35 A grantee receiving funding under this section must be an
3 1 active participant in a designated community empowerment area
3 2 that is not currently receiving child development coordinating
3 3 council funding and is not funded under a school ready
3 4 children grant.
3 5 Sec. 3. Section 7I.2, subsection 6, Code 1999, is amended
3 6 to read as follows:
3 7 6. Staffing services to the Iowa board shall be provided
3 8 by the state agencies which are represented on the Iowa board
3 9 and by other state agencies making staffing available to the
3 10 board. For technical assistance to community empowerment
3 11 areas, the state agency staff shall provide training and
3 12 coordination for designated regional education, health, and
3 13 human services staff to provide facilitation and other
3 14 support. The designated regional staff shall serve as state
3 15 liaisons to community empowerment areas.
3 16 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 7I.7A HOME VISITATION AND PARENT
3 17 SUPPORT SERVICES GRANTS.
3 18 1. In order to improve the consistency and quality of
3 19 state-funded home visitation and parent support services, the
3 20 Iowa empowerment board shall develop standard requirements
3 21 which may be applied to the services. The Iowa empowerment
3 22 board shall consult with community empowerment area boards,
3 23 the Iowa department of public health, the department of
3 24 education, the department of human services, and existing
3 25 providers of home visitation and parent support services in
3 26 the development of any requirements under this section. In
3 27 implementing funding of home visitation and parent support
3 28 services program and incorporating such services into school
3 29 ready children grants, the Iowa empowerment board shall do all
3 30 of the following:
3 31 a. Develop minimum program and reporting requirements.
3 32 The requirements may include but are not limited to standards
3 33 for access to or referrals for the services, minimum frequency
3 34 and duration of services, required collaboration with specific
3 35 federal or state programs, and reporting on the impact of the
4 1 provision of services.
4 2 b. Develop a list of the funding sources that must be
4 3 coordinated within a community empowerment area as part of
4 4 providing the services.
4 5 c. Develop a listing of and description of the home
4 6 visitation and parent support services that are proven to be
4 7 effective models. In addition, sponsor activities to promote
4 8 awareness of the effective models.
4 9 d. Design and periodically revise a standard assessment
4 10 protocol for newborn infants and families. The protocol shall
4 11 be designed to offer appropriate home visitation and parent
4 12 support services as an option for all parents of newborn
4 13 infants. The protocol shall be designed and any revisions
4 14 developed in consultation with the association of Iowa
4 15 hospitals and health systems, and the Iowa cooperative
4 16 extension service in agriculture and home economics, and other
4 17 appropriate service providers.
4 18 e. Develop informational kits for parents receiving home
4 19 visitation services under the home visitation and parent
4 20 support services program or a school ready children grant.
4 21 The kits may include written, recorded, graphic, and other
4 22 media materials providing developmental resources, as well as
4 23 listings of other sources for the materials. The kits shall
4 24 be designed to be made available to or adapted for other
4 25 potential users such as child day care providers and similar
4 26 developmental programs.
4 27 2. As part of an initiative to provide statewide
4 28 availability of home visitation and parent support services to
4 29 families with newborn infants, the Iowa empowerment board
4 30 shall develop a funding program for these services. The
4 31 program shall be initially available to those community
4 32 empowerment areas which have not received full funding for a
4 33 school ready children grant. The requirements applicable to
4 34 home visitation and parent support services shall apply to
4 35 fully funded school ready children grantees upon grant renewal
5 1 on or after the effective date of this Act. The Iowa
5 2 empowerment board shall make every effort to assist any school
5 3 ready children grantee who elects to implement the
5 4 requirements prior to renewal. Every effort shall be made by
5 5 the Iowa empowerment board and applicants for the program to
5 6 coordinate and integrate services in a manner to make the best
5 7 use of other funding sources for similar services, including
5 8 healthy opportunities for parents to experience success
5 9 (HOPES)-healthy families Iowa (HFI) programs established
5 10 pursuant to section 135.106 and child development coordinating
5 11 council grants providing educational support services to
5 12 parents of at-risk children age birth through three years
5 13 funded under section 279.51, subsection 2, paragraph "b".
5 14 3. The minimum home visitation and parent support service
5 15 requirements applicable to HOPES-HFI programs established
5 16 pursuant to section 135.106 and to child development
5 17 coordinating council grants for providing educational support
5 18 services to parents of at-risk children age birth through
5 19 three years funded under section 279.51, subsection 2,
5 20 paragraph "b", shall be revised to conform with the minimum
5 21 requirements for such services established under this section.
5 22 The revised requirements shall be applicable on or before July
5 23 1, 2000.
5 24 Sec. 5. Section 7I.8, Code 1999, is amended by adding the
5 25 following new subsection:
5 26 NEW SUBSECTION. 4. A home visitation and parent support
5 27 services program account is created in the Iowa empowerment
5 28 fund under the authority of the director of public health.
5 29 Moneys credited to the account shall be distributed by the
5 30 Iowa department of public health for funding of home
5 31 visitation and parent support services programs operated by
5 32 community empowerment areas pursuant to requirements
5 33 established by the Iowa board in accordance with law.
5 34 Sec. 6. Section 279.51, subsection 2, paragraph b,
5 35 subparagraph (2), Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
6 1 (2) To provide grants to provide educational support
6 2 services to parents of at-risk children age birth through
6 3 three years. Effective July 1, 1999, a new grant recipient
6 4 must be an active participant in a community empowerment area
6 5 designated under chapter 7I.
6 6 EXPLANATION
6 7 This bill relates to and makes appropriations for early
6 8 childhood programs involving community empowerment areas and
6 9 the child development coordinating council.
6 10 The bill appropriates $5.2 million to the Iowa empowerment
6 11 fund's school ready children grants account to fund the second
6 12 year of existing grants. This account is under the authority
6 13 of the director of the department of education for
6 14 distribution in accordance with criteria developed by the Iowa
6 15 empowerment board for purposes of technical assistance to
6 16 community empowerment areas. In addition, the bill
6 17 appropriates $4.0 million to a new account in the fund for a
6 18 home visitation and parent support services program to be
6 19 developed by the Iowa empowerment board as provided in the
6 20 bill. The bill includes a funding allocation formula for
6 21 distribution of moneys through the community empowerment areas
6 22 designated as of January 1, 2000. An appropriation of
6 23 $200,000 is provided for technical assistance and other costs.
6 24 The bill appropriates $1 million to the department of
6 25 education to be used for expansion of grants by the child
6 26 development coordinating council to school districts
6 27 establishing programs for three and four-year-old children
6 28 deemed at-risk. Grantees must be active participants in a
6 29 community empowerment area which is not currently receiving a
6 30 fully funded school ready children grant or child development
6 31 coordinating council funding.
6 32 Code section 7I.2, relating to the Iowa empowerment board,
6 33 is amended to specify how staffing services are to be provided
6 34 by state agencies through the use of state agency regional
6 35 staff.
7 1 New Code section 7I.7A requires the Iowa empowerment board
7 2 to develop a standard set of requirements for the home
7 3 visitation and parent support services program. The Iowa
7 4 empowerment board is to consult with various departments and
7 5 others administering similar programs. Various requirements
7 6 for the service components are specified. The minimum
7 7 requirements for these services adopted by the Iowa
7 8 empowerment board are to be applicable by July 1, 2000, to
7 9 healthy opportunities for parents to experience success
7 10 (HOPES)-healthy families Iowa (HFI) grants and to child
7 11 development coordinating council grants providing educational
7 12 support services to parents of at-risk children age birth
7 13 through three years. In addition, the Iowa empowerment board
7 14 is to implement a program for these services. The program is
7 15 to be available to community empowerment areas which are not
7 16 receiving a fully funded school ready children grant.
7 17 The bill creates a home visitation and parent support
7 18 services program account in the Iowa empowerment fund. The
7 19 account is to be administered by the director of public health
7 20 pursuant to requirements established by the Iowa empowerment
7 21 board.
7 22 Code section 279.51, relating to the funding of programs
7 23 for at-risk children, is amended to provide that beginning on
7 24 July 1, 1999, new grantees must be active participants in
7 25 community empowerment areas.
7 26 LSB 1529YH 78
7 27 jp/jw/5
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