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New Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families outlines structure, budget and transfer timeline
Summary
Commissioner Tiki Brown told the House Children and Families Committee that the newly created Department of Children, Youth and Families will consolidate programs from four agencies, manage roughly $3.7 billion in annual expenditures and prioritize modernizing an aging case-management system.
Commissioner Tiki Brown, Commissioner of the Department of Children, Youth and Families, told the House Children and Families Committee that the new agency launched July 1 to create a single “front door” for children and family services and to align programs and outcomes across state government.
The Department of Children, Youth and Families, or DCYF, will bring together programs from the Department of Human Services, the Department of Education, the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health, Brown said. She told lawmakers the agency’s mission is to ensure “all children can and do thrive” by improving service navigation and coordination across Minnesota’s 87 counties and 11 sovereign tribal nations.
Ashley Reisenhower, Chief Financial Officer for DCYF, said…
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