§ 235.7 — Transition committees

Iowa § 235.7

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VI: HUMAN SERVICES
• Ch. 235: CHILD WELFARE

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1. Committees established. The department shall establish and maintain local transition
committees to address the transition needs of 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 staff
involved with foster care, child welfare, and adult services, juvenile court services staff,
staff involved with county general assistance or emergency relief under chapter 251 or
252, 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 6,
paragraph“g”, which, baseduponanassessmentofthechild’sneeds, wouldassistthechildin
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.