2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.189 - REASONABLE EFFORTS ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS.

        232.189  REASONABLE EFFORTS ADMINISTRATIVE
      REQUIREMENTS.
         Based upon a model reasonable efforts family court initiative, the
      director of human services and the chief justice of the supreme court
      or their designees shall jointly establish and implement a statewide
      protocol for reasonable efforts, as defined in section 232.102.  In
      addition, the director and the chief justice shall design and
      implement a system for judicial and departmental reasonable efforts
      education for deployment throughout the state.  The system for
      reasonable efforts education shall be developed in a manner which
      addresses the particular needs of rural areas and shall include but
      is not limited to all of the following topics:
         1.  Regular training concerning mental or emotional disorders
      which may afflict children and the impact children with such
      disorders have upon their families.
         2.  The duties of judicial and departmental employees associated
      with placing a child removed from the child's home into a permanent
      home and the urgency of the placement for the child.
         3.  The essential elements, including writing techniques, in
      developing effective permanency plans.
         4.  The essential elements of gathering evidence sufficient for
      the evidentiary standards required for judicial orders under this
      chapter.  

         92 Acts, ch 1229, § 19; 95 Acts, ch 182, § 13; 98 Acts, ch 1190,
      §28