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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Adoption
ISBN : PSU:000017422888
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Adoption
ISBN : PURD:32754076271406
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Children
ISBN : LOC:00102432253
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Adoption
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111208042
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Adoption
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119638539
Author : Congressional Research Congressional Research Service
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505203236
Under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, states, territories, and tribes are entitled to claim partial federal reimbursement for the cost of providing foster care, adoption assistance, and kinship guardianship assistance to children who meet federal eligibility criteria. The Title IV-E program, as it is commonly called, provides support for monthly payments on behalf of eligible children, as well as funds for related case management activities, training, data collection, and other costs of program administration. For FY2013, states spent $12.3 billion under the Title IV-E program (both federal and state dollars); at least 25% of this spending (some $3.1 billion) was expended for the types of "administrative" program costs described in this report, including case planning and pre-placement activities related to children in or entering foster care, as well as licensing, recruitment, and background checks and other costs related to foster care providers. As a condition of receiving this funding, states, territories, and tribes must have a Title IV-E plan that is approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families. That plan must ensure direct financial assistance is made available to eligible children under the Title IV-E program. Further, it must ensure that the state, territory, or tribe will adhere to federal plan requirements primarily intended to ensure children's safety, permanence, and well-being. The focus of this report is Title IV-E plan requirements other than those related to provision of direct financial assistance to eligible children. Those requirements are intended to (1) enable children to be reunited with their families or prevent their entry to foster care; (2) promote children's placement with relatives and maintain sibling connections; (3) ensure children's living arrangements are safe and appropriate and permit "normalcy"; (4) provide for regular oversight and review of each child's status in foster care and timely development and implementation of a permanency plan; (5) ensure timely efforts to find a permanent home for children or youth who cannot be reunited with their families; (6) ensure the health care and education needs of children in foster care are addressed; (7) help youth make a successful transition from foster care to adulthood; (8) identify, document, and determine services necessary for child welfare-involved children or youth who are victims (or at risk of) of sex trafficking and locate and respond to children or youth who run away or are missing from foster care; and (9) ensure program coordination and collaboration and meet certain administrative standards.
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Children
ISBN : UCR:31210024870493
Author : Emilie Stoltzfus
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1490957855
Under the Adoption Incentives program states earn federal bonuses when they increase adoptions of children who are in need of new permanent families. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have earned a part of the $375 million in Adoption Incentive funds that have been awarded since the program was established as part of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Funding authorized for this program has been extended twice since it was established, most recently in 2008, but is currently set to expire on September 30, 2013. Since ASFA's enactment in 1997, the annual number of children leaving foster care for adoption has risen from roughly 30,000 to more than 50,000 and the average length of time it took states to complete the adoption of a child from foster care declined by close to one year (from about four years to less than three). Over the same time period, and in significant measure due to the greater number of children leaving foster care for adoption and at a faster pace, the overall number of children who remain in foster care declined by 29%. Despite these successes, however, the number of children “waiting for adoption” remains more than double the number of children who are adopted during a given year. Under the current Adoption Incentive bonus structure, states earn $4,000 for each adoption of a foster child that is above the number of foster child adoptions finalized by the state in FY2007 and $8,000 for each adoption of an older child (9 years or older) above the number of older child adoptions it finalized in FY2007. If a state has earned an award in either of those categories—or if it improves its adoption rate—it earns $4,000 for each adoption of a special needs child (under age 9) that is above the number of such adoptions it finalized in FY2007. For improving its rate of adoption, a state is eligible for additional incentive funds of $1,000 multiplied by the increased number of adoptions that are calculated to have resulted from the improved adoption rate. However, increases in incentive amounts states earn due to improved adoption rates are only paid to those states if sufficient program appropriations are available after all awards for increases in the number of adoptions have been made. States are permitted to use Adoption Incentive bonuses to support a broad range of child welfare services to children and families. Many states report spending incentive funds on adoption-related child welfare purposes, including post-adoption support services, recruitment of adoptive homes, and training or conferences to improve adoption casework. A smaller number of states report using these funds for adoption assistance payments, improved adoption homes studies, child protection casework, foster care maintenance payments, or other child welfare purposes. Funding for the Adoption Incentives program is provided on a discretionary basis as part of the annual appropriations process. The program is authorized to receive $43 million annually (through FY2013), but in recent years actual appropriations have been around $39 million. Final FY2013 appropriations for the Adoption Incentives program were included in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 at this same level. However, those appropriations are subject to a 5% reduction (under the March 1 sequestration order).
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Adoption
ISBN : PSU:000017159777
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Public Assistance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Children
ISBN : PURD:32754076265796
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Adoption
ISBN : PURD:32754077525784
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Labor, Social Services, and the International Community
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Adoption
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024403334
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Adoption
ISBN : UOM:39015011246892
Author : United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Adoption
ISBN : PURD:32754062209253
Author : Kathy Barbell,Lois Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351320467
Family foster care is supposed to provide temporary protection and nurturing for children experiencing maltreatment. Although it has long been a critical service for millions of children in the United States, the increased attention given to this service in the last two decades has focused more on its inability to achieve its intended outcomes than on its successes. However, as social and political trends and new legislation reshape child welfare, policymakers and service providers continue to offer innovative policy and practice options for this child welfare service. Though use of the service has changed, family foster care remains important. Responding to a widespread sense of the "drifting" of children in care, Congress passed the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. This legislation became a key factor shaping the current status of family foster care. Its goal was to reduce reliance on out-of-home care and encourage use of preventive and reunification services; it also mandated that agencies engage in planning efforts for permanent solutions for foster children. Yet, despite federal mandates and funding, the child welfare system has continued to struggle to provide the level of services needed for children to reduce the amount of time children remain in temporary foster care. The latest response to these problems, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, established unequivocally that safety, permanency, and well-being were national goals for children in the child welfare system. To comply with the law, public and private agencies are required to initiate significant program and practice changes in the coming years to improve permanency outcomes and child well-being in family foster care. The central theme of the volume is accountability for outcomes, certainly a current driving force in child welfare as well as in other public and private service fields. This volume will be of interest to all concerned with the social welfare of children and families at the end of the twentieth century. Kathy Barbell is director of Foster Care of the Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC. Lois Wright is assistant dean at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia.