It’s been a little more than five months since the Family First Prevention Services Act, one of the biggest shifts in the history of federal child welfare financing, was shoehorned into a stopgap spending bill. The law’s two main provisions – reimbursement for services aimed at preventing the use of foster care, and limitations on federal funds for congregate care placements – take effect in October of 2019.
This week Jerry Milner, associate commissioner of the Children’s Bureau (CB) and one of Trump’s top child welfare officials, appeared before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources to provide some clarity on how things were progressing as the Department of Health and Human Services prepares to implement and administer Family First.
Milner has been front and center on Family First for the administration, heading up site visits and receiving state delegations in the nation’s capital. CB, which oversees child welfare programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, recently began a three-stop listening tour on Family First with Casey Family Programs.
[For more on this story by John Kelly, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...tions-and-more/31730]
For another story on a similar topic, see Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #4: Universal Foster Care to Age 21.
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