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Family First Prevention Services Act

February 12, 2019

Key messages on FFPSA for today

Reduces some current

placement revenue

Provides some new prevention

services revenue

Supports work across

family- serving systems

FFPSA is budget-neutral, not new funding

System

Services

Finances

Regulation

MOE from 2014

Rigorous research HHS approved

Risk assessments State plan

Prevention

System

• Hosted Federal Administration on Children Youth & Families (ACYF) and Casey Family Programs

• Presented to MACSSA & MACSSA/AMC work group

• Facilitated drafting of FFPSA principles for MACSSA/AMC work group

• Leading a break-out session at the AMC Conference

IV-E Revenue for Placement

Current Title IV-E

Foster care assistance is about half of our costs for eligible children: • Family met Aid to Families with

Dependent Children (1996) income eligibility in the month of placement

• Placement circumstances met criteria

51%

Dakota County’s IV-E revenue

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$20,000

$40,000

$60,000

$80,000

$100,000

$120,000

$140,000

$160,000

$180,000

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IV-E Revenues Eligible Children

Changes to placement reimbursement

Congregate care settings only reimbursed for 14 days with a few exceptions.

Revenue possibly at risk (2016 final)

Minnesota: $6,926,844 Dakota County: $28,926

Reallocation to Prevention

Three categories of services allowed

Mental health services

Substance use disorder prevention

and treatment

In-home parenting skill-based

services

Removes income eligibility requirement

Title IV-E for prevention

Assistance will reimburse about half of our costs for approved prevention services: • As a payer of last resort • If child is at risk of placement • In a case plan prior to services • Up to a twelve-month episode,

multiple episodes allowed

51%

Support for System Change

Currently approved services

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy • Trauma Focused-Cognitive

Behavioral Therapy • Multisystemic Therapy • Functional Family Therapy • Motivational Interviewing • Families Facing the Future • Methadone Maintenance Therapy

• Nurse-Family Partnership • Healthy Families America • Parents as Teachers • Children’s Home Society of New

Jersey Kinship Navigator Model • Children’s Home Inc. Kinship

Interdisciplinary Navigation Technologically-Advanced Model (KIN-Tech)

Minnesota context

• Child protection task force and subsequent increases in child protection assessments

• Increased assessments and placements easily outstripped funds returned to child welfare

• Prevalence of neglect, including high substance abuse levels, are opportunities for prevention

Jerry Milner’s Congressional testimony

… FFPSA provides a tremendous opportunity to make substantial improvements in the outcomes of children and families in the child welfare system. Such improvements, as FFPSA seeks to create, require shifts in long-held mindsets, a new vision of serving children and families, and a commitment to a different way of working with communities and the broader child welfare system. …

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