The Children’s Bureau released a slew of information on the Family First Prevention Services Act late last week, including the most anticipated info: A list of the first programs and models to be considered for […]
The federal government is willing to pay up to half the bill for states that want to convert to a new Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS), designed to replace decades-old data exchange systems. We […]
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research firm Abt Associates has been tapped to establish the clearinghouse that will dictate which programs are approved under a new federal reform of child welfare financing. The Administration for Children and […]
The public has until October 1 to weigh in on a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposal for a first-ever national standard on licensing foster homes. The standards, which HHS was directed to […]
The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, a membership organization that includes hundreds of child welfare and juvenile justice providers, has laid off the three-person staff at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., and intends […]
State legislatures are an ever-changing landscape. Some states cram in a year of policy into short sessions, and the membership is constantly turning over. It can be a tough environment for child welfare issues to […]
The major provisions of the Family First Prevention Services Act – the allowance of Title IV-E entitlement funds for front-end services meant to prevent the use of foster care in some cases, and limitations on […]
New York’s state government was one of the few to openly oppose the Family First Prevention Services Act, a sweeping new federal law rewriting rules for funding the child welfare system. Among other provisions, the law […]
The Family First Prevention Services Act has become law. It includes the biggest change to the structure of federal child welfare finance since the establishment of the Title IV-E entitlement in 1980. The Family First […]
Last week, Congress passed and the President signed into law the Family First Prevention Services Act. It is an encompassing and complex piece of legislation that will take some time for states to figure out […]
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