Mentoring and Supporting Families Act
This bill establishes demonstration projects for peer support, mentoring, and career coaching under the Health Profession Opportunity Grants program, which supports organizations that provide low-income individuals with education and training for health care occupations.
Specifically, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) must award grants to organizations that provide case management plans to help participants develop workforce skills on an ongoing basis. The ACF must give preference to project applications that provide participants with a cash stipend.
To provide for the use of peer support, peer mentoring, and career 
     coaching in demonstration projects conducted under the health 
 profession opportunity grant program under section 2008 of the Social 
                             Security Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Mentoring and Supporting Families 
Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF PEER SUPPORT, PEER MENTORING, AND CAREER COACHING.

    Section 2008 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Use of Peer Support, Peer Mentoring, and Career Coaching.--
            ``(1) Preference in considering applications.--In 
        considering applications for a grant under this section, the 
        Secretary shall give preference to--
                    ``(A) applications that include opportunities for 
                peer support or peer mentoring, and make career 
                coaching available, as part of the case management 
                plan; and
                    ``(B) applications that include a commitment to 
                providing project participants with a monthly cash 
                stipend equivalent to 50 percent of the Federal poverty 
                level.
            ``(2) Inclusion among support services.--A project for 
        which a grant is made under this section shall include case 
        management plans that include career coaching (with the option 
        to offer appropriate peer support and mentoring opportunities 
        to help develop soft skills and social capital), which may be 
        offered on an ongoing basis before, during, and after initial 
        training as part of a career pathway model.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2021.
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Mentoring and Supporting Families Act
To provide for the use of peer support, peer mentoring, and career coaching in demonstration projects conducted under the health profession opportunity grant program under section 2008 of the Social Security Act.
Mentoring and Supporting Families Act
Rep. Evans, Dwight