PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

A partnership program funded through a grant awarded under this subchapter must: (1) strictly adhere to the program model developed by the Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office, including any clinical, programmatic, and data collection requirements of that model; (2) require that registered nurses regularly visit the homes of low-income, first-time mothers participating in the program to provide services designed to: (A) improve pregnancy outcomes; (B) improve child health and development; (C) improve family economic self-sufficiency and stability; (D) reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect; and (E) increase workforce participation; (3) require that nurses who provide services through the program: (A) receive training from the office of the attorney general at least once each year on procedures by which a person may voluntarily acknowledge the paternity of a child and on the availability of child support services from the office; (B) provide a mother with information about the rights, responsibilities, and benefits of establishing the paternity of her child, if appropriate; (C) provide assistance to a mother and the alleged father of her child if the mother and alleged father seek to voluntarily acknowledge paternity of the child, if appropriate; and (D) provide information to a mother about the availability of child support services from the office of the attorney general; and (4) require that the regular nurse visits described by Subdivision (2) begin not later than a mother's 28th week of gestation and end when her child reaches two years of age.