FY 2016 Appropriation

This program provides various services focusing on protecting children while supporting, strengthening, and preserving their families. These services are designed to allow children to stay in their homes or facilitate their return to their natural families. In addition to in-home services provided by DCFS staff, other contractual services are provided for families that require less structured intervention to prevent disruption of the family.

Funding History
Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $2,864,200 from all sources for In-Home Services. This is a 0 percent change from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $2,645,900 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 5.4 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 In Home Services Detailed Purposes

With regard to the In-home 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."

Percent In-home child clients with a subsequent SCF case within 12 months

Percent children exiting in-home services who later had a supported CPS case within 12 months

The services include:

  • Homemaker Services: Provide short-term assistance to parents unable to give basic care and homemaking needed for the well-being of a child.
  • Youth Advocate Program: Work one-on-one with youth who have been neglected or abused and who are at risk of becoming delinquent or ungovernable.
  • Parenting Skills Training: Provide classes that teach appropriate communication and discipline skills.
  • Protective Day Care: Provide day care for children at risk of abuse or neglect if left at home during the day.
  • Sexual Abuse Treatment Services: Provide assessment and treatment to sexually abused children and their families and treatment for sexually reactive children and juvenile perpetrators who have been identified by DCFS as sex abuse victims.
  • Day Treatment Services: Provide therapeutic management services for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children and adolescents. Services include education, therapy, crisis management, social and daily living skills training, and recreational services.
  • Drug Testing: May also include drug testing for parents when assessing safety for children.

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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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.