Mentoring and Supporting Families Act

Bill: 117-hr-2312
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3]
Introduced: 2021-04-01
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged

Employment and training programs

Health personnel

Health programs administration and funding

Medical education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2021-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-04-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Mentoring and Supporting Families Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes demonstration projects for peer support, mentoring, and career coaching under the Health Profession Opportunity Grants program, which supports organizations that provide low-income individuals with education and training for health care occupations.</p> <p>Specifically, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) must award grants to organizations that provide case management plans to help participants develop workforce skills on an ongoing basis. The ACF must give preference to project applications that provide participants with a cash stipend.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2312 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 1, 2021 Mr. Evans (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To provide for the use of peer support, peer mentoring, and career coaching in demonstration projects conducted under the health profession opportunity grant program under section 2008 of the Social Security Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mentoring and Supporting Families Act . 2. Use of peer support, peer mentoring, and career coaching Section 2008 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1397g ) is amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively, and by inserting after subsection (b) the following: (c) Use of peer support, peer mentoring, and career coaching (1) Preference in considering applications In considering applications for a grant under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to— (A) applications that include opportunities for peer support or peer mentoring, and make career coaching available, as part of the case management plan; and (B) applications that include a commitment to providing project participants with a monthly cash stipend equivalent to 50 percent of the Federal poverty level. (2) Inclusion among support services A project for which a grant is made under this section shall include case management plans that include career coaching (with the option to offer appropriate peer support and mentoring opportunities to help develop soft skills and social capital), which may be offered on an ongoing basis before, during, and after initial training as part of a career pathway model. . 3. Effective date The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 2021.