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Discussion on foster care funding and services for fiscal year 2025
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Council Member Stevens and Commissioner Dannhauser discuss the additional $27.5 million in state funds for foster care services in fiscal year 2025. They explore how this funding was determined and its potential uses.
- The funding is part of an increase in the foster care block grant, allocated for one year only.
- The current budget for foster care services is $496 million for fiscal year 2025 and $682 million for 2026.
- ACS is assessing potential increased needs, focusing on reimbursement rates and 4E reimbursement.
Althea V. Stevens
3:48:50
So I'm gonna move on to the preliminary plan included an additional 27,500,000.0 in state funds for fiscal twenty twenty five only for the expansion related to foster care services.
3:49:03
How is this funding amount determined?
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How would it be utilized towards foster care services?
3:49:09
So
Jess Dannhauser
3:49:12
27.5 for foster care services?
3:49:15
I'm gonna have to can you repeat
Tricia Mullen
3:49:17
the question chair?
Althea V. Stevens
3:49:18
The preliminary plan includes an addition of 27,500,000.0 in state fund for fiscal twenty twenty five only for related to foster care services.
3:49:30
How is this funding amount determined?
3:49:32
How will it be utilized towards foster care services?
Jess Dannhauser
3:49:36
I believe this is just an analysis that we will that's how much more we'll be getting in state funds given the current funding streams.
3:49:46
It will be go ahead.
Margaret Pletnikoff
3:49:50
That's the increase on the foster care block grant.
3:49:52
Yeah.
3:49:53
And we only put it in one year because the allocation is just for one year only.
Jess Dannhauser
3:50:00
So this is the same block grant where we're short as a result of the MSAR payments and so it'll go into the analysis of what the gap is there for '26 that we were talking about earlier.
Althea V. Stevens
3:50:13
Yeah so how was the funding, how was that determined?
3:50:15
Was it just that's what was the That's what the funding, yep.
3:50:19
What is the budget for foster care services for fiscal twenty twenty five and how has that been spent to date?
Jess Dannhauser
3:50:26
So we've for fiscal year twenty five to date we've sent $496,000,000 and for '26 it's $682,000,000.
Althea V. Stevens
3:50:36
Does ACS anticipate an increased need and funding for foster care services, if so how much and when will funding be added?
Jess Dannhauser
3:50:45
We're assessing that, it's really around two areas of risk for the city, one is the reimbursement rates and the other is the 4E reimbursement, And so we're working with OMB around those.