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Foster care funding in the executive budget
1:18:44
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55 sec
Council Member Salaam questions the exclusion of the city council's request for $134 million to support foster care in the executive budget. Commissioner Dannhauser explains the ongoing assessment process for foster care funding.
- Foster care census fluctuates
- There's been a 10% reduction in residential care
- About 9% of foster care youth are in residential care
- ACS constantly assesses ongoing needs and reimbursements
- The process of determining funding needs is complex
Yusef Salaam
1:18:44
Dealing with underfunding, why did the executive budget exclude the city council's request for $134,000,000 to support foster care when ACS's own plan acknowledges shrinking federal support?
Jess Dannhauser
1:18:57
Just because this is an ongoing assessment, and so our census fluctuates sometimes.
1:19:05
Our census, we've been reducing the number of children in residential care.
1:19:09
We've had consistently about a 10% reduction in residential care.
1:19:15
About 9% of young people who are in foster care are in residential care.
1:19:20
That's a costly program.
1:19:21
And so we're constantly assessing the ongoing need and what state reimbursements we get and federal reimbursements because we claim for federal reimbursement.
1:19:32
It's a complicated process and so we just need to continue to assess what the need will be in fiscal year twenty six.