The state board shall:
1. Review the activities and actions of local boards and the court appointed special
advocate program.
2. Adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to:
a. Establish a recordkeeping system for the files of local boards including individual case
reviews.
b. Accumulate data and develop an annual report regarding children served by the state
board. The report shall include:
(1)Dataregardingthetotalnumberofdaysoffostercareprovidedandthecharacteristics
of the children receiving foster care.
(2)The number of placements of children in foster care.
c. Evaluate the data collected by local boards and court appointed special advocates, and
disseminate the data to the governor, the department, child-placing agencies, and the state
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The state board shall:
1. Review the activities and actions of local boards and the court appointed special
advocate program.
2. Adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to:
a. Establish a recordkeeping system for the files of local boards including individual case
reviews.
b. Accumulate data and develop an annual report regarding children served by the state
board. The report shall include:
(1) Dataregardingthetotalnumberofdaysoffostercareprovidedandthecharacteristics
of the children receiving foster care.
(2) The number of placements of children in foster care.
c. Evaluate the data collected by local boards and court appointed special advocates, and
disseminate the data to the governor, the department, child-placing agencies, and the state
courtadministratorfordisseminationtothesupremecourtandthechiefjudgeofeachjudicial
district.
d. Establish mandatory training programs for members of the state board. Training shall
focus on but not be limited to the following:
(1) The duties of the state board.
(2) The duties of local boards.
(3) The duties of court appointed special advocates.
(4) Applicable child welfare laws and practices that influence the work of local boards
and court appointed special advocates.
e. Establish a mandatory training program and procedures for local boards consistent
with the provisions of section 237.20.
f. Establish procedures and protocols for administering the court appointed special
advocate program in accordance with subsection 5.
3. Assign the cases of children receiving foster care to the appropriate local boards.
4. Maintain an evaluation program regarding citizen foster care review programming.
The evaluation program shall be designed to evaluate the effectiveness of citizen reviews in
improving case permanency planning and meeting case permanency planning goals, identify
the amount of time children spend in foster care placements, and identify problem issues
in the foster care system. The state board shall submit an annual evaluation report to the
governor and the general assembly.
5. Administer the court appointed special advocate program, including but not limited to
performance of all of the following:
a. Establish standards for the program, including but not limited to standards for
selection and screening of volunteers, preservice training, continuing education, and
assignment and supervision of volunteers. Identifying information concerning a court
appointed special advocate, other than the advocate’s name, shall not be considered to be a
public record under chapter 22.
b. Implement the court appointed special advocate program as deemed necessary
to effectuate its purpose including but not limited to employing court appointed special
advocate program staff as available funding provides.
c. Promoteadherencetothenationalguidelinesforstateandlocalcourtappointedspecial
advocate programs.
d. Issue an annual report of the court appointed special advocate program for submission
to the general assembly, the governor, and the supreme court.
6. Receive gifts, grants, or donations made for any of the purposes of the state board’s
programs and disburse and administer the funds received in accordance with the terms of the
donor and under the direction of program staff. The funds received shall be used according
to any restrictions attached to the funds and any unrestricted funds shall be retained and
applied to the applicable program budget for the next succeeding fiscal year.
7. Make recommendations to the general assembly, the department, child-placing
agencies, the governor, and the state court administrator for dissemination to the supreme
court and the chief judge of each judicial district. The recommendations shall include but
are not limited to identification of systemic problems in the foster care and the juvenile
justice systems, specific proposals for improvements that assist the systems in being more
cost-effective and better able to protect the best interests of children, and necessary changes
relating to the data collected and the annual report made under subsection 2, paragraph “b”.