House File 2673 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
(SUCCESSOR TO HF 2472)
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the establishment of a family success
2 counseling demonstration program.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 217.36 FAMILY SUCCESS COUNSELING
1 2 DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
1 3 1. A family success counseling demonstration program is
1 4 established to provide individuals and their families with the
1 5 life skills necessary to build and attain functional,
1 6 productive, and successful families. The demonstration
1 7 population shall be pregnant women and parents, and their
1 8 families participating in the federal special supplemental
1 9 nutrition program for women, infants, and children, as
1 10 authorized in the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, section
1 11 17, as amended and codified at 42 U.S.C. } 1786, at the
1 12 location of the expansion population provider network that is
1 13 a publicly owned acute care teaching hospital located in a
1 14 county with a population over three hundred fifty thousand as
1 15 described in chapter 249J.
1 16 2. The department shall select, through a sole=source
1 17 process, an existing nonprofit corporation that provides a
1 18 family counseling program which focuses on strengthening of
1 19 individuals, striving for healthy families, and the resulting
1 20 increase of strong local communities to implement this
1 21 section. The department shall utilize the following criteria
1 22 in selecting the counseling program:
1 23 a. The staff of the counseling program shall have
1 24 extensive training or experience in all of the following:
1 25 educational psychology, the development of program curriculum
1 26 and performance measures, instruction of teachers or other
1 27 professionals, family matters, child and adolescent issues,
1 28 counseling of both individuals and families, and program
1 29 administration, management, fundraising, and marketing.
1 30 b. The counseling program curriculum shall focus on
1 31 instilling in participants the core values of diligence,
1 32 discipline, and respect; family leadership and unchanging
1 33 family structure=related principles; and guidelines for strong
1 34 families. The program shall utilize teaching and learning
1 35 techniques that are effective with and relative to the
2 1 population served.
2 2 c. The counseling program design shall include:
2 3 (1) An initial twelve=week to sixteen=week series of
2 4 participation in group sessions utilizing lectures,
2 5 discussions, breakout groups, and role playing as techniques
2 6 in teaching the core values.
2 7 (2) A six=month series of participation in private weekly
2 8 counseling sessions with the final outcome of the sessions
2 9 being the preparation of a customized family blueprint. The
2 10 customized blueprint shall assist the family in establishing a
2 11 well=defined family unit in which each member has a role to
2 12 play in its structure.
2 13 (3) Follow=up with participants who complete the
2 14 counseling program in order to track long=term results.
2 15 d. The counseling program shall be adaptable to
2 16 populations, in addition to the demonstration population, for
2 17 potential expansion beyond the demonstration program.
2 18 3. The department shall assist the counseling program
2 19 selected in identifying funding options to implement the
2 20 program through sources including but not limited to the white
2 21 house office of faith=based and community initiatives, the
2 22 center for faith=based and community initiatives within the
2 23 United States department of health and human services, the
2 24 compassion capital fund of the administration of children and
2 25 families within the United States department of health and
2 26 human services, and the provisions of the federal Deficit
2 27 Reduction Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109=171. Additionally, the
2 28 department may, at the request of the counseling program,
2 29 provide a critique of any applications submitted in accessing
2 30 funding for the counseling program.
2 31 4. The counseling program selected shall provide
2 32 reasonable compensation to the expansion population provider
2 33 network provider described in subsection 1 for use of the
2 34 provider network location by the counseling program.
2 35 EXPLANATION
3 1 This bill creates a family success counseling demonstration
3 2 program to provide individuals and their families with the
3 3 life skills necessary to build and attain functional,
3 4 productive, and successful families. The demonstration
3 5 population is to be pregnant women and parents, and their
3 6 families, participating in the federal special supplemental
3 7 nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC
3 8 program) at the location of the expansion population provider
3 9 network under IowaCare that is a publicly owned acute care
3 10 teaching hospital located in a county with a population over
3 11 350,000. The bill directs the department of human services to
3 12 procure a sole source contract to implement the program and
3 13 directs the department to assist the counseling program
3 14 selected in identifying funding options and by critiquing
3 15 applications for funding at the request of the counseling
3 16 program.
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