The regional offices of the division direct and deliver child welfare, youth, and domestic violence services. This budget includes funding for caseworkers, related staff, regional administrative personnel, and training. There are five regions: 1) Northern, 2) Eastern, 3) Western, 4) Southwest, and 5) Salt Lake Valley which includes Salt Lake and Tooele counties. Each region analyzes the services needed by its clients and organizes resources to uniquely provide the services.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $79,026,200 from all sources for Service Delivery. This is a 1.2 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $55,073,600 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 2.9 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
For the most recent completed fiscal year, the following information represents the purposes for which the money was used:
Offices of the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) are available in all 29 counties of the state. Funding provided to the division is "split up between five regions and the State Office." DCFS distributes the funds to the various regions "based on personnel costs and estimates for costs like travel, phone, building rents, car rental, etc." DCFS states that if the distribution were, "Based on general population the funding would be skewed. However, based on population need the current method works quite well."
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.