COBI 2015 - Special Needs

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FY 2016 Appropriation

This program provides for special needs of children placed in foster homes and other out-of-home care situations. Special needs services might include transportation, special clothing allowances, music lessons, unique equipment, baby needs, additional clothing allowance (usually for teens), holiday gifts, recreational needs, and school expenses such as yearbook, locker fees, school pictures, and tutors. It also includes miscellaneous expenses that DCFS is ordered by the courts to pay for foster children or for their parents' needs. This includes interpreter services, long-distance phone calls to facilitate reunification, and parent psychological evaluations.

Funding History

Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $1,915,200 from all sources for Special Needs. This is a 0 percent change from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $636,600 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 0.1 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.

Appropriation Adjustments

In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:

DescriptionOngoingOne-Time

Staff Analysis

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

DCFS Special Needs Detailed Purposes

Percent of Children Exiting Custody with a Subsequent Custody Episode within 12 Months

Median months in custody for children exiting during the year

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	2,477,700	992,800	636,800	986,300	636,000	0	636,000	600	636,600
Federal Funds	214,400	1,169,800	1,346,600	1,237,500	1,347,400	0	1,347,400	(600)	1,346,800
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act	9,800	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transfers - Health	0	0	(67,900)	(67,600)	(68,200)	0	(68,200)	0	(68,200)
Transfers - Medicaid	(64,500)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transfers - Other Agencies	0	(26,900)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transfers - Within Agency	(900)	(400)	(100)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Closing Nonlapsing	(100)	(171,300)	(100)	(100)	0	0	0	0	0
Total	$2,636,400	$1,964,000	$1,915,300	$2,156,100	$1,915,200	$0	$1,915,200	$0	$1,915,200

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Categories of Expenditure	FY11 Actual	FY12 Actual	FY13 Actual	FY14 Actual	FY15 Approp	FY15 Change	FY15 Revised	FY16 Change	FY16 Approp
In-state Travel	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Out-of-state Travel	1,100	0	6,400	1,900	6,400	(4,900)	1,500	0	1,500
Current Expense	428,200	286,900	282,000	373,100	282,000	71,400	353,400	0	353,400
Other Charges/Pass Thru	2,207,100	1,677,100	1,626,800	1,781,100	1,626,800	(66,500)	1,560,300	0	1,560,300
Total	$2,636,400	$1,964,000	$1,915,300	$2,156,100	$1,915,200	$0	$1,915,200	$0	$1,915,200

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.