Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part III - Economic Stability
Subpart 15 - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Initiatives
Chapter 55 - TANF Initiatives
Section III-5569 - Alternatives to Abortion Services Program
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
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.
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.
