BACUSUS BILL will tell States How to ALLOCATE Mental and Child Block Grants
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The Secretary of HHS will have the responsibility to ensure that privacy security safeguards are in place for the health disparities data collection (that is data on race/ethnicity), analysis and sharing processes.

SUBTITLE I.

This sections addresses an expansion of the current Social Security Administration Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) block grants to states which focus on which a wide range of programs related to mother and child health.

(1) It adds a new Section 511, which requires states as a condition of getting MCH money to identify communities that are at risk for poor maternal and child health and have few quality home visitation programs.

(2) As part of this needs identification process they must review the state‘s capacity to provide appropriate services to those communities. States would be required to submit the results of their needs assessment and their proposed activities to the Secretary.

(3) Establishes a new grant program for early childhood home visitations with three and five year benchmarks for demonstrating improvement in Mother/child health, school readiness, juvenile delinquency, family economic factors and coordination with community resources.

The programs implemented under this grant are expected to use well established models used by national organizations or higher ed institutions and that through peer review, journals articles, or quasi-experimental research have demonstrated to be successful. However, 25% of the money could be used for untested programs that are well designed and have rigorous evaluation components.