LAC 67:III.5569. Alternatives to Abortion Services Program

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.