Title VI, HUMAN SERVICES (Ch. 216 - 255A)

1. The foster family home insurance fund shall be administered by the department. The fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated by the general assembly for deposit in the fund. The department shall use moneys in the fund to provide home and property coverage for foster parent…

The department shall provide for enhanced child foster care services by establishing supplemental per diem or performance-based contracts that include payment of costs relating to payments of principal and interest for bonds and notes issued pursuant to section 16.57 with facilit…

The department, or any individual, kinship caregiver, agency, or juvenile shelter care home that applies the reasonable and prudent parent standard reasonably and in good faith in regard to a child in child foster care shall have immunity from civil or criminal liability which mi…

For the purposes of this subchapter unless otherwise defined: 1. “Case permanency plan” means the same as defined in section 232.2, subsection 6 , except the plan shall also include the following: a. The efforts to place the child with a relative or fictive kin. b. The rationale …

1. The child advocacy board is created within the department. The state board consists of nine members appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate and directly responsible to the governor. One member shall be an active court appointed special advocate volunte…

1. The state board shall establish a registry of the placements of all children receiving foster care. The agency responsible for the placement shall notify the state board of each placement in accordance with written protocols adopted pursuant to section 237.16, subsection 4 . T…

The state board shall: 1. Review the activities and actions of local boards and the court appointed special advocate program. 2. Adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to: a. Establish a recordkeeping system for the files of local boards including individual case reviews. b. Accumul…

1. The state board shall establish local citizen foster care review boards to review cases of children receiving foster care. The department shall discontinue its foster care review process for those children reviewed by local boards as local boards are established and operating.…

It is the policy of this state to provide appropriate protection for children who are separated from the direct personal care of their parents, relatives, fictive kin, or guardians and, as a result, are subject to difficulty in achieving appropriate physical, mental, emotional, e…

A local board shall, except in delinquency cases, do the following: 1. Review the case of each child receiving foster care assigned to a local board in accordance with written protocols adopted pursuant to section 237.16, subsection 4 , to determine whether satisfactory progress …

1. The information and records of or provided to a local board, state board, or court appointed special advocate regarding a child who is receiving foster care or who is under the court’s jurisdiction and the child’s family when relating to services provided or the foster care pl…

The agency responsible for the placement of the child shall create a case permanency plan. In addition to requirements stated in section 232.2, subsection 6 , the plan shall also include but not be limited to: 1. Time frames to meet the stated permanency goal and short-term objec…

1. A court appointed special advocate shall receive notice of all depositions, hearings, and trial proceedings in a matter to which the court appointed special advocate is appointed. 2. The duties of a court appointed special advocate with respect to a child, unless otherwise enl…

1. Except as otherwise provided by subsections 3 and 4 , the department shall adopt and enforce in accordance with chapter 17A , administrative rules necessary to implement this chapter . Formulation of the rules shall include consultation with representatives of child foster car…

An individual or an agency shall not provide child foster care unless the individual or agency is a licensee. However, a license under this chapter is not required of the following: 1. An individual providing child foster care for a total of not more than twenty days in one calen…

1. An individual or an agency shall apply for a license by completing an application to the department upon forms furnished by the department. The department shall issue or reissue a license if the department determines that the applicant or licensee is or upon commencing operati…

1. As a condition for initial licensure, each individual licensee shall complete thirty hours of foster parent training offered or approved by the department. However, if the individual licensee has completed relevant training or has a combination of completed relevant training a…

1. A kinship caregiver shall not provide child foster care unless the kinship caregiver has been granted approval under this section . 2. A kinship caregiver shall apply for approval by submitting a completed application to the department on a form furnished by the department. 3.…

1. A licensee or approved kinship caregiver shall not furnish child foster care in a building or on premises not designated in the licensee’s license or the kinship caregiver’s approval. 2. A licensee shall not furnish child foster care to a greater number of children than is des…

The department may require submission of reports by a licensee, and shall cause at least one annual unannounced inspection of each facility to assess the quality of the living situation and to determine compliance with applicable requirements and standards. The inspections shall …

1. A person shall not be allowed to provide services in an agency licensee’s facility if the person has a disease which is transmissible to other persons through required contact in the workplace, which presents a significant risk of infecting other persons, which presents a subs…

A person who receives information from or through the department shall not disclose that information directly or indirectly, except as authorized by section 217.30 , or as authorized or required by section 232.69 if the information concerns any of the following: 1. A child who ha…