Foster Care: Incomplete Implementation of the Reforms and Unknown Effectiveness : Report to Congressional Requesters |
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Page 17 - ... allotment in an amount greater than the amount for which it would be eligible if such appropriation were equal to $141,000,000, unless such State — (1) has conducted an inventory of all children who have been in foster care under the responsibility of the State for a period of six months preceding the inventory, and determined the appropriateness of, and necessity for, the current foster placement, whether the child can be or should be returned to his parents or should be freed for adoption,...
Page 17 - case review system" means a procedure for assuring that — (A) each child has a case plan designed to achieve placement in the least restrictive (most family like) setting available and in close proximity to the parents...
Page 11 - At the request of the ranking minority members of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism, and the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, we conducted a review of the foster care reforms required for states' receipt of additional funds under the Child Welfare Services grants program.
Page 2 - Concerned about reports that foster care abuses may be continuing despite these reforms, the ranking minority members of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism...
Page 104 - Foster Care: Use of Funds for Youths Placed in Rite of Passage Program (GAO/HRD-87-23BR, Dec. 9, 1986). Health and Human Services: Documentation of Funding Decisions for Child Abuse and Neglect Grants Inadequate (GAO/HRD-87-69, May 22, 1987).
Page 18 - Program is administered by the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) of the office of human development services within the US Department of Health and Human Services. The bureau helps the states develop their program plans, reviews those plans, certifies the states' compliance with the section 427 requirements, and allocates funds to them accordingly.
Page 21 - AND FOSTER CARE •« SEC. 479. [42 USC 679] (aXD Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection 134, the Secretary shall establish an Advisory Committee on Adoption and Foster Care Information (in this section referred to as the "Advisory Committee") to study the various methods of establishing, administering, and financing a system for the collection of data with respect to adoption and foster care in the United States. (2) The study required by paragraph (1) shall —...
Page 19 - Compliance standards for the case record survey are graduated, rising regularly as a state receives incentive funds over the years. Once a state certifies itself as having the procedural protections in place, the bureau conducts an initial (case record) review. To pass this review, the states must have established case plan and review procedures and family reunification services. Additionally, at least 66 percent of the sample cases must contain case plans and indicate that reviews were conducted,...
Page 104 - PRODUCTS Better Federal Program Administration Can Contribute to Improving State Foster Care Programs (GAO/HRD-84-2, Aug. 10, 1984). Children's Programs; A Comparative Evaluation Framework and Five Illustrations (GA0/PEMD-88-28BR, Aug.
Page 89 - ... University JAMES D. McQUIGG, Consulting Meteorologist, Columbia, Missouri JAMES E. NEWMAN, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University NORMAN J. ROSENBERG, Director, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska C. FORD RUNGE, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota THOMAS R. SAYLOR, Garnac Grain Company G. EDWARD SCHUH, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of...