Child Wellbeing Update - April 2019
Key Highlights This Month:
- MACSSA/DHS CP Fiscal workgroup met on 4/4/19. See minutes from the meeting attached.
- MACSSA/DHS Legislative workgroup did not meet this month.
- MACSSA/DHS CWB Team Call took place on 4/10/19. Minutes attached.
African American Family Preservation Act-Eric and some others attended a meeting with Representative Moran on this bill. The bill as is, is likely not going to move forward in its current state. There is a hope to move forward on a couple of key components which are the CW Training Academy, timeline for petitioning parental rights to be reinstated, and removing some foster care licensing barriers for relatives.
Family First Prevention Services Act- Attached is a comparison of Federal Requirements for Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTP) & Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF) Building Bridges Initiative, with support from Annie E. Casey Foundation, produced a comparison document to help with addressing questions on the differences, similarities, and connections between new Family First defined Quality Residential Treatment Programs (QRTP) & Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF). Also attached is the Program Instruction 19-02 that was released to provide guidance to states around CAPTA, Chafee and ETV Programs, and Title IV-B.
Requested Actions Needed From MACSSA:
New Trends in This Area:
Issues/Concerns Regarding This Topic:
Legislative Impacts:
We are also still tracking the school transportation/foster care item. $1M (a repeat of the first pilot project) made it into the Senate Education bill, but didn’t get into the House bill. We hope to get this to the conference committee and perhaps see if we can get the appropriation raised to $2M.
Supporting Materials:
CP Fiscal Meeting Minutes
Minnesota Time Studies with IV-E
Program Instruction 19-02
April CWB Minutes
Contact(s): Jodi Heurung/Amy Shillabeer