1. A community grant fund is established in the state treasury under the control of the division of criminal and juvenile justice planning of the department of human rights for the purposes of awarding grants under this section. The criminal and juvenile justice planning advisory council and the juvenile justice advisory council shall assist the division in administering grants awarded under this section. The departments of education, human services, public health, and public safety, and the governor's office of drug control policy shall advise the division on grant award criteria and performance measures for the programs. Not more than five percent of the moneys appropriated to the fund shall be used for administrative purposes.
2. Any decategorization governance board organized in accordance with section 232.188 may apply to the division for a grant to fund juvenile crime prevention programs that emphasize positive youth development. The division shall adopt rules for awarding of grant moneys, including but not limited to data factors and a methodology for use in allocating moneys among the decategorization projects based upon a project's proportion of the state's population of children.
3. Applications for moneys from the community grant fund shall demonstrate a collaborative effort by all relevant local government and school officials and service agencies with authority, responsibilities, or other interests within the decategorization project area. Proposed plans set forth in the applications shall reflect community-wide consensus in how to remediate community problems related to juvenile crime. Services provided under a grant through this program shall be comprehensive, preventive, community-based, and shall utilize flexible delivery systems and promote youth development. A plan for grant moneys under this section shall be a part of or be consistent with the annual child welfare services plan developed by the governance board of the decategorization project area and submitted to the department of human services and Iowa empowerment board pursuant to section 232.188.
4. The division shall provide decategorization governance boards with information describing comprehensive community planning techniques and performance measures for this program. The division shall establish a monitoring system for this program that requires participating decategorization governance boards to report information with which to measure program performance. Applications for grant moneys shall state specific results sought to be obtained by any service or activity funded by a grant under this section and shall describe how their desired results are related to the program's performance measures.
5. This section is repealed effective June 30, 2005. The division of criminal and juvenile justice planning shall annually submit a report to the general assembly by January 15 regarding the program's performance measures and the effectiveness of the services and activities funded under this section.
94 Acts, ch 1172, §27; 96 Acts, ch 1212, §16; 98 Acts, ch 1221, §13, 14; 2000 Acts, ch 1126, §5; 2000 Acts, ch 1222, §14, 17
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