Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-153.13 - Role and responsibilities of decategorization project governance boards
The
(1)
Rules of operation. The
governance board shall establish and adopt written rules of operation that are
available to the public.
(2)
Open meetings and records. The governance board shall adhere
to statutory requirements for government bodies concerning open meetings and
open records procedures as specified in Iowa Code chapters 21 and 22.
(3)
Coordination. The
governance board shall coordinate project planning, decategorization service
decisions, and budget planning activities with the service area manager and the
chief juvenile court officer for the county or counties comprising the
project.
(4)
Right to
services. The governance board shall implement the decategorization
initiative in a manner that does not limit the legal rights of children and
families to receive services.
(5)
Community service planning. The governance board shall
undertake community planning activities within the county or counties
comprising the project. These activities shall be designed to develop services
that are more preventive, family-centered, and community-based.
a. As part of decategorization community
planning, the governance board shall partner with other community stakeholders
to develop service alternatives that provide less restrictive levels of care
for children and families within the project area. The governance board shall
involve community representatives, including representatives for families and
youth and for county organizations, in the development of specific and
quantifiable short-term and long-term plans for:
(1) Enhancing preventive, family-centered,
and community-based services; and
(2) Reducing reliance on out-of-community
care and restrictive interventions.
b. In community planning, the governance
board may use information from federal reviews of Iowa's child welfare system
and indicators and outcomes from other community planning efforts. The
governance board shall coordinate its community planning efforts as much as
possible with those of other planning entities in the community, such as but
not limited to:
(1) Communities of
promise;
(2) Early childhood
Iowa;
(3) United Way;
(4) Community partnerships for protecting
children;
(5) Comprehensive school
improvement planning;
(6)
Comprehensive substance abuse agency planning; and
(7) Substance-abuse-free environment (SAFE)
program planning.
(6)
Annual service plan. The
governance board shall oversee the development and submission of an annual
child welfare and juvenile justice services plan that meets the requirements of
rule 441-153.18 (232). The governance
board shall involve community representatives and county organizations in the
development of the plan for the use of the decategorization services funding
pool .
(7)
Fiscal
management. The governance board shall manage and have authority over
the project's decategorization services funding pool .
a. The governance board shall develop a plan
to maintain budget accountability by ensuring during each state fiscal year
that there is ongoing accountability for results, fiscal monitoring, and
oversight of expenditures from the decategorization services funding
pool .
b. Budget planning and
decategorization services funding decisions shall be coordinated with the
affected service area managers and chief juvenile court officers or their
designees throughout each state fiscal year.
c. The governance board shall ensure that
expenditures do not exceed the amount of funding available within the funding
pool .
d. If necessary, the
governance board shall approve actions to reduce expenditures, discontinue
programs, or take other action to manage expenditures within the available
decategorization services funding pool during each state fiscal year.
(8)
Annual
report. The governance board shall oversee the development and
submission of an annual progress report for the decategorization project that
meets the requirements of rule
441-153.19 (232).
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