Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Reports on Activities During the 108th Congress
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Child Welfare
Author: Congressional Research ServicePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542601856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Child welfare services are intended to prevent the abuse or neglect of children; ensure that children have safe, permanent homes; and promote the well-being of children and their families. As the U.S. Constitution has been interpreted, states bear the primary responsibility for ensuring the welfare of children and their families. In recent years, Congress has annually appropriated between $7.6 billion and $8.7 billion in federal support dedicated to child welfare purposes. Nearly all of those dollars (97%) were provided to state, tribal, or territorial child welfare agencies (via formula grants or as federal reimbursement for a part of all eligible program costs). Federal involvement in state administration of child welfare activities is primarily tied to this financial assistance. The remaining federal child welfare dollars (3%) are provided to a variety of eligible public or private entities, primarily on a competitive basis, and support research, evaluation, technical assistance, and demonstration projects to expand knowledge of, and improve, child welfare practice and policy. At the federal level, child welfare programs are primarily administered by the Children's Bureau, which is an agency within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). However, three competitive grant programs (authorized by the Victims of Child Abuse Act) are administered by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) within the Department of Justice (DOJ). Federal child welfare support is provided via multiple programs, the largest of which are included in the Social Security Act. Title IV-B of the Social Security Act primarily authorizes funding to states, territories, and tribes to support their provision of a broad range of child welfare-related services to children and their families. Title IV-E of the Social Security Act entitles states to federal reimbursement for a part of the cost of providing foster care, adoption assistance, and (in states electing to provide this kind of support) kinship guardianship assistance on behalf of each child who meets federal eligibility criteria. Title IV-E also authorizes funding to support services to youth who "age out" of foster care, or are expected to age out without placement in a permanent family. Legislation concerning programs authorized in Title IV-B and Title IV-E, which represents the very large majority of federal child welfare dollars, is handled in Congress by the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committee. Additional federal support for child welfare purposes, including research and demonstration funding, is authorized or otherwise supported in the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and the Adoption Opportunities program. Further, the Victims of Child Abuse Act authorizes competitive grant funding to support Children's Advocacy Centers, Court Appointed Special Advocates, and Child Abuse Training for Judicial Personnel and Practitioners. Authorizing legislation for these programs originated with the House and Senate Judiciary committees. Each child welfare program that receives discretionary funding is funded through April 28, 2017 at about 99.8% of the funding provided for each of the programs in FY2016. For child welfare programs receiving mandatory funding, the continuing resolution makes funding available at the rate needed to maintain the current law program, under the authority and conditions provided in the FY2016 appropriations act. While the continuing resolution allows federal funds to be awarded, until a final appropriations bill is enacted, the total amount of FY2017 funding that will be made available for a given program remains unknown and may be less (or more) than the annualized amount provided in the continuing resolution.
Child Welfare
Author: Emilie StoltzfusPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594547812
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This report begins with a short history of the legislation and other factors that led to the creation of the current CFSR and then briefly describes how a CFSR is conducted and what "substantial conformity" with federal child welfare policy means in the context of this review. Much has been made of the fact that no state was found to be in substantial conformity with all aspects of federal policy reviewed during the initial (FY2001-FY2004) round of the CFSRs. This report seeks to better understand that fact by looking closely at state performance on each of the performance indicators that determined compliance.
Hearing to Examine Child Welfare Reform Proposals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Improving the Child Welfare System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Bush Administration Foster Care Flexible Funding Proposal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 0195306619
Category : Social service
Languages : en
Pages : 2244
Book Description
Congressional Research Report
Author: Report on the Legislative and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Ways and Means During the ... Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description