Financial Information

Section I. Financial Information

  1. Payment Limitations - Title IV-B, subpart 1:
    • The state did not use any title IV-B subpart 1 funds for child care, foster care maintenance and adoption assistance payments for FFY 2005 or planned to for FFY 2010.
    • The state did not use any non-Federal funds for foster care maintenance payments that could be used as a match for FFY 2010.
    • This information is contained within the CFS-101 report, parts I and II.
  2. Payment Limitations - Title IV-B, subpart 2:
    • FFY2009, the percentage for IVB, Subpart 2 will be similar to FFY2006 and FFY2007 expenditures. IV-B planned expenditures for FFY 09 will be the similar to FFY06 and FFY07, and are as follows:
      • 39% on Family Preservation
      • 7% on Time Limited Reunification - Expenditures on Reunification represent contracted services. In addition, the CD provides many Family Reunification services are also provided by in-house staff and not included in this number. For Time Limited Reunification, Divisional Staff offer Family Centered Services to families of children in our custody and provide contracted counseling services to those families. In addition, the Division has 8.5 ($255,000) in-house staff specializing in family reunification. These staff are funded through the federal CS Pool funding which is based on the time study. IV-B Subpart 2 funds are not claimed in the Pool. Some or all of these activities could be claimed through IV-B funding. However, since the IV-B Subpart 2 grant is being fully claimed by the above activities, other funding sources are used.
    • 54% on Community Partnerships (Community Based Family Support/Adoption Promotion Activities). Community Partnerships provides multiple services in a community based model. The Community Partners Report and Results for 2008 are included as Attachments, J and K. Also, regarding Adoption Promotion activities, the CD provides these services through several avenues that are funded through other sources than IV-B. The Division currently uses $881,000 non-IV-B funding for the recruitment, assessment, pre-service and in-service training for potential foster and adoptive families. This is in addition to adoption activities done by Community Partnerships and staff. The division has the equivalent of more than 92 FTE ($2.8 million in salaries) devoted to maintaining current adoption placements and developing new adoption placements. See Foster and Adoptive Recruitment in the Annual Permanency Section for more information.
    • Additionally, 77 staff focuses ($2.3 million in salaries) on developing foster and adoptive homes. Some or all of these activities could be claimed through IV-B funding. However, since the IV-B Subpart 2 grant is being fully claimed by the above activities, other funding sources are used.
    • CD estimated that $452,921 of IV-B funds would be spent on Administration and Management. This estimated amount will be approximately 8% of the actual grant amount of $5,724,941. Actual expenditures will exceed this amount for Administration and Management.
  3. FFY 2009 Funding - Revised Budget Request
    • The state will be seeking re-allotment for IV-B subpart II funds in the amount of $1,651,327 and MCV (Caseworker Visit) funds in the amount $341,452. Details are on the attached CFS-101 tagged re-allotment.
  4. FFY 2010 Budget Request - CFS 101 (see CFS 101 attachments)
    • In FFY 2007, the amount estimated for IV-B subpart 1 was $5,724,941. The amount expended was $5,724,941.
    • In FFY 2007, $18,890,845 was spent on IV-B part 2 type activities. $7,411,933 was spent on Family Preservation, $1,276,283 on Family Reunification, and $10,202,629 on Community Partnerships which provide community-based family support and other services including adoption promotion and support services. Expenditures in excess of the grant are taken to other sources including state funds and other allowable federal sources. The above expenditures on Family Reunification are for contracted services only. In addition, to these services, CD staff provides Family Reunification services. The Division also contracts with private agencies to develop Adoptive and Foster family resources.
    • For IV-B part I, the amounts are similar
    • For IV-B part II, the expenditure amount represents the amounts claimed by area. Activities in these areas exceed 25% of the IV-B subpart 2 grant; however, not all of the activities are claimed against the IV-B subpart 2 funds. The amount set up in CFS 101 Parts 1 and 2 in FFY 2007, were based on past assumptions that the activities in these areas exceed 25% of the grant, therefore it was appropriate to budget the grant funding in this manner. The amounts expended represent what was actually claimed against the grant. Starting in FFY 2007, these amounts were allocated according to expected expenditure levels.
    • For the Chaffee Foster Care Independence Program, expenditures were less than expected due to the Chaffee program transition. The new program was fully operational in the fall of 2007. The Children’s Division expects to fully expend these funds in the future.
    • In FFY 2006, the expenditure level was lower than expected for the ETV grants due to the program implementation process. The Children’s Division now contracts with a private organization to reach more children who qualify for this program, therefore, fully utilizing funding.
    • The amount of Chafee grant funds expended in FFY 2007 was $2,928,213, the total expenditures including the state match was $3,660,266.
    • The amount of Chafee grant funds expended in FFY 2008, year to date, is $2,400,623 the total expenditures including the state match was $3,000,779.
    • In FFY 08 and FFY 09, the Children’s Division expects to fully use this funding. In FFY 06 and 07, the Division was implementing a change to the Chaffee program. The lower expenditures were due to this transition. For the FFY 2008 grant, $38,925 was used for housing and maintenance payments for staff. FFY 2009 expenditures will not be available until June '09. The CD is currently in the process of revising the administration, operation, and structure of the Independent Living Program which is funded by Chafee. This may change services provided and result in more room and board being provided through the Chafee grant. However, at this point, no changes have been made, and it is difficult to provide specifics.
    • In FFY 08, 245 youth received an ETV Grant. In FFY 09, a total of 285 youth have received an ETV grant, 36 YTD for the first time in FFY 09.
    • The CD is in a partnership with a private agency, the Orphan Foundation of America to reach more children who need and qualify for the ETV grant. This is increasing the usage of the grant. The goal is to fully use the ETV grant to help more foster children go to college. Based on the maximum grant of $5,000 the goal is to reach 250 children who are in need of assistance.
    • For FFY 2007, the amount of ETV grant expenditures was $1,255,140 (federal share of $1,004,112) and FFY 2008, year to date, is $798,544 (federal share of $638,835). The Division is expecting the amount to be consistent with FFY 2007 due to the on-going partnership with a private agency.
    • For FFY 2009 the Monthly Casework Visit funds were used for training and technology to assist caseworkers with visits and to reduce caseworker turnover. None of the funds were used for administration.
  5. FFY 2007 Title IV-B Expenditure Report - CFS 101, Part III: (See attached CFS 101, Part III)
    • In 1992, the total expenditures for Child Welfare programs were $63.8 million, of which $41.9 million was state funding. This funding included the appropriations for Children’s Treatment Services, Family Preservation, Foster Care, Residential Treatment, and Group Homes/Independent Living. In SFY 2007, total expenditures were $223.6 million, of which $128.5 million was state funding. The total amount spent for Family Preservation in 1992 was $2.8 million, most of which was state funding. In SFY 2007, the amount was $7.4 million. Approximately, 67% of the $7.4 million is taken to the IV-B grant ($5 million). The remaining $2.4 million is taken to other sources, primarily state funding. For Community Partnerships, there are no expenditures recorded in 1992. In 1993, Prototypes, which was a precursor to the Community Partnership Program, $152,671 of state funding was spent. For SFY2007, approximately $6.8 million of the Community Partnerships expenditures account against the IV-B grant. Of this amount 28% is from state funding which is $1.9 million. The remaining expenditures are funded from other sources which are primarily state funding. There are no expenditures in FFY 1992 for Family Reunification Contracts. The Division received authority for these contracts in FFY 2005.
  6. Financial Status Reports
    • All SF 269s were filed in October 2008.