La. Admin. Code tit. 67 § III-5569

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section III-5569 - Alternatives to Abortion Services Program

A. Effective June 1, 2006, the Office of Family Support shall enter into contracts to provide intervention services including crisis intervention, counseling, mentoring, support services, and pre-natal care information, in addition to information and referrals regarding healthy childbirth, adoption, and parenting to help ensure healthy and full-term pregnancies as an alternative to abortion.

B. These services meet TANF goal 1, to provide assistance to needy families so children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives and TANF goal 4, to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families by providing pregnancy and parenting support to low-income women, their male partners, and families who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.

C. Eligibility for services is limited to pregnant women, their male partners, and/or pregnant minors whose family's income is at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

D. Services are considered non-assistance by the agency.

La. Admin. Code tit. 67, § III-5569

Promulgated by the Department of Social Services, Office of Family Support, LR 32:2099 (November 2006), amended LR 34:696 (April 2008).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.; R.S. 46:231 and R.S. 36:474; Act 16, 2005 Reg. Session, Act 18, 2007 Reg. Session.