Judiciary officials tell Appropriations panel federal grants support treatment courts and juvenile services; Title IV‑D is largest single federal transfer

Terry Corson, State Court Administrator, told the House Appropriations Committee on April 10 that federal grants provide critical funding for treatment courts, juvenile-court improvements and related services and that loss of those funds would force program reductions.

Corson said the federal grants “are critical to the operation of those programs,” and Greg Mosley, Chief of Finance and Administration for the Judiciary, identified the largest federal transfer as Title IV‑D child support funding, which the Judiciary receives as a subrecipient and which is budgeted at $2,000,000 a year.

The grants discussed include multiple treatment‑court awards (adult drug treatment courts in Rutland County, Chittenden County and Washington County; a Windsor DUI treatment docket with a drug‑treatment track; and a Chittenden family treatment docket), a court improvement grant for juvenile matters and a Byrne‑related behavioral‑health grant that funds a project director and an administrative position. Mosley said the Judiciary’s direct federal grants total about $1,500,000 annually; when the Title IV‑D interdepartmental transfer is included, federal…