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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 121st

CHAPTER 351
H.P. 655 - L.D. 878

An Act To Provide Peer Support and Advocacy Services To Participants in the ASPIRE-TANF Program and the Parents as Scholars Program

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

     Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3789-E is enacted to read:

§3789-E.  Peer support and advocacy demonstration project

     1. Project established. The department shall establish a peer support and advocacy demonstration project, referred to in this section as "the project," to provide information, support and advocacy services for participants in the ASPIRE-TANF program, as established in section 3781-A, and the Parents as Scholars Program, as established in section 3790, subsection 1.

     2. Project design. The department shall establish in 4 of its offices peer support and advocacy groups made up of ASPIRE-TANF program and Parents as Scholars Program participants who, on a volunteer basis, are available to assist their peers in the programs by answering questions or assisting them in resolving problems they may be having in either of the programs. The peer support and advocacy groups shall meet regularly with the management of the ASPIRE-TANF program and Parents as Scholars Program to discuss systemic issues and methods of improving administration of the programs. The time spent by a volunteer in a peer support and advocacy group in activities pursuant to the project may count either toward fulfilling the participation requirements for the ASPIRE-TANF program under section 3788, subsections 10 and 11 or toward fulfilling the program requirements for the Parents as Scholars Program under section 3790, subsection 3, whichever applies to the volunteer.

     3. Project specifications. The project must meet the following specifications:

     4. Report. The department shall provide a report on the status and progress of the project to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by March 1, 2004.

     5. Repeal. This section is repealed July 1, 2005.

Effective September 13, 2003, unless otherwise indicated.

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