Nondiscretionary Expenditures
$ 161,974,611
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Discretionary Expenditures
$
50,611,894
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Program Description: Determines the eligibility of families for benefits and
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services available under the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program
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(FITAP). Provides case management services to FITAP recipients to assist them
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in becoming self-supporting. Facilitates mechanisms for other TANF-funded
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services. These services include: coordination of contract work training activities;
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providing transitional assistance services, including subsidized child day care and
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transportation; and contracting for the provision of job readiness, job development,
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job placement services, and other relevant TANF-funded services. Also determines
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the eligibility for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP aka Food
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Stamp) benefits, cash grants to low-income refugees, repatriated impoverished U.S.
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citizens and disaster victims. Also contracts for the determination of eligibility for
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federal Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and Social Security Insurance
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(SSI) benefits, and operates the support enforcement program which establishes
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paternity, locates absent parents, and collects and distributes payments made by
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an absent parent on behalf of the child(ren) in the custody of the parent.
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Determines eligibility and administers childcare assistance, which includes quality
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childcare projects, provider training, and development. The child protection
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investigation activity investigates reports of child abuse and neglect and
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substantiates an average of about 28% of the cases investigated. Should a report
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be validated, the child and family are provided social services within the resources
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available to the agency, which may include protective day care, with the focus of
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keeping the family intact. If the child remains at risk for serious endangerment or
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substantially threatened or impaired due to abuse or neglect while in the family
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home s(he) is removed, enters into a permanency planning process, and is placed
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into state custody in a relative placement, foster home or therapeutic residential
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setting. Adoption services are provided to children permanently removed from
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their homes, and free for adoption. Other services offered by the agency include
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foster and adoptive recruitment and training of foster and adoptive parents,
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subsidies for adoptive parents of special needs children, and child care quality
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assurance. This program also manages federally funded assistance payments for
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prevention and sheltering to local governments and community partners to operate
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homeless shelters.
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Objective: Through the Child Welfare activity, to improve service delivery to
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children and youth who are at-risk of or have been abused or neglected through a
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high-quality, comprehensive Child Welfare Program.
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Performance Indicators:
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Percentage of alleged victims seen within the assigned
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response priority on a quarterly basis 80.00%
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Of all children in foster care on the first day
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of the report period who were in foster care for 17 continuous
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months or longer, what percent were discharged from
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foster care to a finalized adoption by the last day. 22.70%
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Of all children who entered foster care for the first time one
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year prior to the report period, and who remained in foster
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care for 8 days or longer, what percent were discharged from
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foster care to reunification in less than 12 months from the
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date of latest removal from home. 48.40%
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Percentage of foster children who receive monthly home visits 75%
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Percentage of children in foster care that exit foster care by
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adoption within 24 months per quarter. 33.00%
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Absence (in percent) of maltreatment of children receiving
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Family Services for 6 months after validated CPI report 95.0%
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Of all children who were victims of a substantiated or
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indicated maltreatment allegation during the first 6 months
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of reporting period, the percent that were not victims of
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another substantiated or indicated maltreatment allegation
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within the 6-months following the maltreatment incident. 94.60%
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Of all children served in foster care, percentage of children who were
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not victims of a substantiated or indicated maltreatment by a foster
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parent or facility staff member 99.68%
Objective: Through the Enrollment and Eligibility activity, to process cash
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assistance applications in an accurate and timely manner and refer eligible families
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to appropriate services.
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Performance Indicators:
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Percentage of recertifications processed timely in the
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current fiscal year. (FITAP/KCSP) 100%
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Percentage of applications processed timely in the
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current fiscal year. (FITAP/KCSP) 100%
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Average number of monthly cases in Family
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Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP)
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and Kinship Care Subsidy Program (KCSP) 10,000
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Number of Reconsiderations for Family Independence
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Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) and
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Kinship Care Subsidy Program (KCSP) 10,000
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Percentage of Strategies To Empower People (STEP)
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assessments occurring within 60-day timeframe 85.0%
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Percentage of STEP caseload who are employed and
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gain unsubsidized employment 17.0%
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Objective: Through the Enrollment and Eligibility activity, to process
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redeterminations and applications within required timeframes and maintain or
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improve the payment accuracy and recipiency rates in the SNAP (Food Stamps
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Program).
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Performance Indicators:
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Percentage of total benefit dollars accurately issued (SNAP) 95.0%
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Percentage of recertifications processed timely in the current year 95.0%
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Percentage of applications processed timely in the current year 95.0%
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Objective: Through the Enrollment and Eligibility activity, to ensure that
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Strategies To Empower People (STEP) Program clients are engaged in appropriate
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educational and work placement activities leading to self-sufficiency as measured
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by an employment retention rate of 50%.
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Performance Indicators:
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Average number of STEP participants (monthly) 2,500
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Percentage of STEP work-eligible participants meeting requirements 50.0%
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Employment retention rate (STEP participants) 50.0%
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Percentage of non-sanctioned STEP families with employment 20.0%
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Percentage of individuals leaving cash assistance that returned to
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the program within 12 months 20.0%
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Percentage of adult STEP clients lacking high school
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diploma/GED who are engaged in work activities leading
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to completion of diploma or GED 15.0%
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Percentage of minor-aged, FITAP parents lacking high
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school diploma/GED who are engaged in work activities
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leading to completion of diploma or GED 50.0%
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Percentage of STEP cases closed with employment 30.0%
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Percentage of applications processed timely in the current fiscal year 95%
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Percentage of re-certifications processed timely in the current fiscal year 95%
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Objective: Through the Enrollment and Eligibility activity, to provide child care
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assistance to 45% of families on cash assistance to encourage their self-sufficiency
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and provide child care assistance to other low income families.
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Performance Indicators:
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Number of children receiving Child Care assistance monthly 21,695
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Percentage of cash assistance families that received
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transitional assistance (Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc.) 100%
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Percentage of STEP eligible families that received child
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care assistance 40.0%
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Percent of applications for child care assistance processed timely 95%
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Percentage of recertifications processed timely 95%
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Objective: Through the Enrollment and Eligibility activity, to provide services to
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eligible families including cash assistance, STEP program assistance and supportive
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service payments, child support collections and distributions, and provide child care
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payments.
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Performance Indicators:
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Average number of monthly cases in FITAP and Kinship Care 10,000
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Average number of STEP participants (monthly) 2,200
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Average number of Support Enforcement cases with orders 234,950
Objective: Through the Enrollment and Eligibility activity, to provide for the
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efficient, accurate, and timely enrollment of families and individuals meeting
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specific state and federal eligibility guidelines for government sponsored programs.
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Performance Indicator:
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Mean Processing Time for Child Care applications (in days) 16
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Percentage of applications processed timely in the current fiscal year 95%
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Percentage of re-certifications processed timely in the current fiscal year 95%
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Objective: Through the Economic Security activity, to provide child support
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enforcement services on an ongoing basis and increase paternity and obligation
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establishments and increase collections by 2% per year.
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Performance Indicators:
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Percent increase in collections and distributions
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over prior year collections 2.0%
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Total number of paternities established 30,731
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Percentage of current support collected 58%
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Percentage of cases with past due support collected 59%
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Total number of in-hospital acknowledgements 21,968
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Percent of cases with a support order at the end of the current
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fiscal year. 78.0%