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Is 35 years of age or older;

Has worked in the home, providing unpaid household services for family members;

Is not adequately employed, as defined by rule of the agency;

Has had, or would have, difficulty in securing adequate employment; and

Has been dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by such income, or has been dependent on federal assistance.

Job counseling, by professionals and peers, specifically designed for a person entering the job market after a number of years as a homemaker.

Job training and placement services, including:

Financial management services providing information and assistance with respect to insurance, including, but not limited to, life, health, home, and automobile insurance, and taxes, estate and probate problems, mortgages, loans, and other related financial matters.

Educational services, including high school equivalency degree and such other courses as the agency determines would be of interest and benefit to displaced homemakers.

Outreach and information services with respect to federal and state employment, education, health, and unemployment assistance programs which the agency determines would be of interest and benefit to displaced homemakers.

The agency shall enter into contracts with, and make grants to, public and nonprofit private entities for purposes of establishing multipurpose service programs for displaced homemakers under this section. Such grants and contracts shall be awarded pursuant to chapter 287 and based on criteria established in the state plan developed pursuant to this section. The agency shall designate catchment areas which together shall comprise the entire state, and, to the extent possible from revenues in the Displaced Homemaker Trust Fund, the agency shall contract with, and make grants to, entities which will serve entire catchment areas so that displaced homemaker service programs are available statewide. These catchment areas shall be coterminous with the state’s workforce development regions. The agency may give priority to existing displaced homemaker programs when evaluating bid responses to the agency’s request for proposals.

In order to receive funds under this section, and unless specifically prohibited by law from doing so, an entity that provides displaced homemaker service programs must receive at least 25 percent of its funding from one or more local, municipal, or county sources or nonprofit private sources. In-kind contributions may be evaluated by the agency and counted as part of the required local funding.

The agency shall require an entity that receives funds under this section to maintain appropriate data to be compiled in an annual report to the agency. Such data shall include, but shall not be limited to, the number of clients served, the units of services provided, designated client-specific information including intake and outcome information specific to each client, costs associated with specific services and program administration, total program revenues by source and other appropriate financial data, and client followup information at specified intervals after the placement of a displaced homemaker in a job.

The scope of the incidence of displaced homemakers;

A compilation and report, by program, of data submitted to the agency pursuant to subparagraph 3. by funded displaced homemaker service programs;

An identification and description of the programs in the state that receive funding from the agency, including funding information; and

An assessment of the effectiveness of each displaced homemaker service program based on outcome criteria established by rule of the agency.