COBI 2015 - Facility-based Services

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FY 2016 Appropriation

Facility-based services include short-term shelter services, crisis host homes, and other short-term shelter services for abused, neglected, and dependent children and youth. An example of this would be the Christmas Box House in Salt Lake County. This program covers the cost of such services provided directly by the region or through contracts with private providers.

Funding History

Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $3,661,500 from all sources for Facility-based Services. This is a 0.1 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $2,686,000 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 0.1 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.

Staff Analysis

For the most recent completed fiscal year, the following information represents the purposes for which the money was used:

DCFS Facility Based Services Detailed Purposes

With regard to the Facility-based Services program, "Region offices provide services to all areas of the State." With regard to the methodology used to distrube the funds, the division states that it is done, "based on existing contracts and expenditure history in the region." The divisions believes that "over time this method takes into account shifts in need by region not by population."

Number of children and parents receiving crisis/respite services

Regarding the positive trend greater than 5% in the Number of children and parents receiving crisis/respite services from the DCFS Facility Based Services program performance measures, the agency states, "This says positive but there was actually a drop. Although there was a drop the value for this year was not outside the normal range of fluctuations for this measure. This measure has been affected in the past by changes in contracts and late reporting by providers."

Fourteen crisis nurseries are partially funded through contracts with DCFS. These crisis nurseries are found statewide and allow parents, who feel that they might injure a child, to place the child at the center while the parents resolve the crisis. Centers are currently operating in Logan, Midvale, Salt Lake City (Sugarhouse), West Valley City, Ogden, Clearfield, Orem, Brigham City, Roosevelt, Cedar City, St. George, Price, Moab, and Richfield.

Intent Language

HB0003: Item 92

Under Section 63J-1-603 of the Utah Code, the Legislature intends that any remaining funds provided for the Division of Child and Family Services, in Item 41, Chapter 13, Laws of Utah 2014 not lapse at the close of FY 2015. The Legislature further intends that these non-lapsing funds are to be used for Adoption Assistance, Out of Home Care, Service Delivery, In-Home Services, Special Needs, and SAFE Management Information System modernization consistent with the requirements found at UCA 63J-1-603(3)(b).

SB0002: Item 85

The Legislature intends the Department of Human Services' Division of Child and Family Services use nonlapsing state funds originally appropriated for Adoption Assistance non-IV-E monthly subsidies for any children that were not initially Title IV-E eligible in foster care, but that now qualify for Title IV-E adoption assistance monthly subsidies under eligibility exception criteria specified in P.L. 112-34 [Social Security Act Section 473(e)]. These funds shall only be used for child welfare services allowable under Title IV-B or Title IV-E of the Social Security Act consistent with the requirements found at UCA 63J-1-603(3)(b).

SB0002: Item 85

The Legislature intends to reinvest non-lapsing state funds originally appropriated for Out of Home Care to enhance Service Delivery or In-Home Services consistent with the requirements found at UCA 63J-1-603(3)(b). The purpose of this reinvestment of funds is to increase capacity to keep children safely at home and reduce the need for foster care, in accordance with Utah's Child Welfare Demonstration Project authorized under Section 1130 of the Social Security Act (Act) (42 U.S.C. 1320a-9), which grants a waiver for certain foster care funding requirements under Title IV-E of the Act. These funds shall only be used for child welfare services allowable under Title IV-B or Title IV-E of the Act.

SB0007S01: Item 30

The Legislature intends that the Department of Human Services report on the following performance measures for the Child and Family Services line item: (1) Administrative Performance: Percent satisfactory outcomes on qualitative case reviews/system performance (Target = 85%/85%), (2) Child Protective Services:� Absence of maltreatment recurrence within 6 months (Target = 94.6%), and (3) Out of home services: Percent of children reunified within 12 months (Target = 74.2%) by January 1, 2016 to the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee.

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Sources of Finance	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Change	FY16 Approp
General Fund	3,173,700	2,487,100	2,615,800	2,574,400	2,739,200	(57,600)	2,681,600	4,400	2,686,000
General Fund, One-time	0	0	0	500	1,000	0	1,000	(1,000)	0
Federal Funds	297,900	1,162,100	968,600	989,800	971,400	3,900	975,300	200	975,500
Closing Nonlapsing	0	(95,100)	(24,600)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	$3,471,600	$3,554,100	$3,559,800	$3,564,700	$3,711,600	($53,700)	$3,657,900	$3,600	$3,661,500

Categories of Expenditure	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Change	FY16 Approp
Personnel Services	481,400	472,000	423,300	467,300	544,400	(19,200)	525,200	2,400	527,600
In-state Travel	100	300	200	800	200	800	1,000	0	1,000
Current Expense	89,400	130,400	115,000	123,700	118,200	10,300	128,500	1,100	129,600
DP Current Expense	0	0	700	0	700	(700)	0	100	100
Other Charges/Pass Thru	2,900,700	2,951,400	3,020,600	2,972,900	3,048,100	(44,900)	3,003,200	0	3,003,200
Total	$3,471,600	$3,554,100	$3,559,800	$3,564,700	$3,711,600	($53,700)	$3,657,900	$3,600	$3,661,500

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Other Indicators	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Revised	FY16 Approp
Budgeted FTE	24.50	18	17	18	17	17	17
Actual FTE	15.81	14.90	13.20	14.30	0	0	0
Vehicles	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

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.