235.7 - TRANSITION COMMITTEES.
235.7 TRANSITION COMMITTEES.
1. Committees established. The department of human services
shall establish and maintain local transition committees to address
the transition needs of those children receiving child welfare
services who are age sixteen or older and have a case permanency plan
as defined in section 232.2. The department shall adopt rules
establishing criteria for transition committee membership, operating
policies, and basic functions. The rules shall provide flexibility
for a committee to adopt protocols and other procedures appropriate
for the geographic area addressed by the committee.
2. Membership. The department may authorize the governance
boards of decategorization of child welfare and juvenile justice
funding projects established under section 232.188 to appoint the
transition committee membership and may utilize the boundaries of
decategorization projects to establish the service areas for
transition committees. The committee membership may include but is
not limited to department of human services staff involved with
foster care, child welfare, and adult services, juvenile court
services staff, staff involved with county general relief under
chapter 251 or 252, or of the central point of coordination process
implemented under section 331.440, school district and area education
agency staff involved with special education, and a child's court
appointed special advocate, guardian ad litem, service providers, and
other persons knowledgeable about the child.
3. Duties. A transition committee shall review and approve
the written plan of services required for the child's case permanency
plan in accordance with section 232.2, subsection 4, paragraph
"f", which, based upon an assessment of the child's needs, would
assist the child in preparing for the transition from foster care to
adulthood. In addition, a transition committee shall identify and
act to address any gaps existing in the services or other support
available to meet the child and adult needs of individuals for whom
service plans are approved. Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 117, §10; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §33; 2005 Acts, ch 95,
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Referred to in § 232.2