Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 489 - Child Advocacy Board › Chapter 1 - Purpose and Function › Rule 489-1.1 - Purpose

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The child advocacy board is established by Iowa Code section
				237.16 to carry out all duties described in Iowa Code section
				237.18. The board is charged
				with the responsibility of establishing a foster care registry, establishing
				local review boards to review cases of children in foster care, establishing a
				training program for members of the state board, establishing procedures and
				protocols for administering the local foster care review board and court
				appointed special advocate program, receiving and administering funds received
				for the state board's programs and annually reporting findings and making
				recommendations to the governor, the general assembly, the department,
				child-placing agencies, and the state court administrator for dissemination to
				the supreme court and the chief judge of each judicial district.
(1)
Location.
The child
			 advocacy board is located in the Lucas State Office Building, 321 East 12th
			 Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0083; telephone (866)448-4608. Office hours are
			 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on state holidays. The child
			 advocacy board is created within the department of health and human
			 services.
(2)
Definitions.
The following definitions apply to the rules of
			 the child advocacy board.
"Case permanency plan"
means the same as
				defined in Iowa Code section
				232.2(4),
				except the plan shall also include, but not be limited to:
1. Time frames to meet the stated permanency
			 goal and short-term objectives.
2.
			 The care and services that will be provided to the child, biological parents,
			 the child's fictive kin, and foster parents.
3. The efforts to place the child with a
			 relative or fictive kin.
4. The
			 rationale for an out-of-state placement, and the efforts to prevent such
			 placement, if the child has been placed out of state.
"Child receiving foster care"
means a child
				defined in Iowa Code section
				237.15(2)  who
				is described by any of the following circumstances:
1. The child's foster care placement is the
			 financial responsibility of the state pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 234.35.
2. The child is under the guardianship of the
			 department.
3. The child has been
			 involuntarily hospitalized for mental illness pursuant to Iowa Code chapter
			 229.
4. The child is at risk of
			 being placed outside the child's home, the department or court is providing or
			 planning to provide services to the child, and the department or court has
			 requested the involvement of the state or local board.
"Court appointed special advocate"
means a
				person duly certified by the child advocacy board created in Iowa Code section
				237.16 for participation in the court appointed special advocate program and
				appointed by the court to carry out the duties pursuant to Iowa Code section
				237.24 as enacted by 2022 Iowa Acts, House File 2507, section 65.
"Department"
means the department of health
				and human services.
"Family"
means the social unit consisting of
				the child and the biological or adoptive parent, stepparent, brother, sister,
				stepbrother, stepsister, and grandparent of the child.
"Fictive kin"
means an adult person who is not
				a relative of a child but who has an emotionally positive significant
				relationship with the child or the child's family.
"Local board"
means a local citizen foster
				care review board created pursuant to Iowa Code section
				237.19.
"Person or court responsible for the child"
means the department, including but not limited to the department of health and
				human services, agency, or individual who is the guardian of a child by court
				order issued by the juvenile or district court and has the responsibility of
				the care of the child, or the court having jurisdiction over the child.
"State board"
means the child advocacy board
				created pursuant to Iowa Code section
				237.16.