28.2 - PURPOSE AND SCOPE.
28.2 PURPOSE AND SCOPE.
1. The purpose of creating the community empowerment initiative
is to empower individuals and their communities to achieve desired
results for improving the quality of life in the communities in this
state. It is expected that the empowerment of individuals will
strengthen the individuals' sense of responsibility for their
neighbors and promote partnerships in order for all to succeed. It
is believed that the desired results identified by individuals and
their communities, with the support of the state, will be achieved as
individuals, governments, and agencies work collaboratively within
communities. It is believed that local individuals in local
communities working together will identify and implement the best
means for attaining the desired results for themselves and their
neighbors. The role of the Iowa empowerment board, the state, and
local governments is to support and facilitate growth of individual
and community responsibility in place of the directive role that the
public has come to expect of government.
2. It is intended that through the community empowerment
initiative every community in Iowa will develop the capacity and
commitment for using local decision making to achieve the following
initial set of desired results:
a. Healthy children.
b. Children ready to succeed in school.
c. Safe and supportive communities.
d. Secure and nurturing families.
e. Secure and nurturing early care and education
environments.
3. To achieve the initial set of desired results, the
initiative's primary focus shall first be on the efforts of the state
and communities to work together to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of early care, education, health, and human services
provided to families with children from birth through age five years.
4. It is anticipated that the scope of the initiative will expand
as additional desired results are identified and agreed upon by
communities and the state. It is the intent of the general assembly
to identify from time to time the additional desired results in
statute. Section History: Recent Form
99 Acts, ch 190, §2, 19, 20; 2005 Acts, ch 148, §2; 2006 Acts, ch
1157, §2, 3
Referred to in § 135.173