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Minnesota opens Department of Children, Youth and Families with $3.7 billion in annual spending and staggered program transfers
Summary
The new Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), launched July 1, consolidates child-related programs from four agencies, will manage roughly $3.7 billion in annual expenditures and will complete major transfers in June; officials told a House committee the goal is improved access and coordination for families.
The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families launched July 1 to consolidate child- and family-focused programs from multiple agencies, its commissioner told the state House Children and Families Committee. Commissioner Tiki Brown said the agency aims to create “a sustainable public face for children's issues in state government” and to improve access and outcomes for families across all 87 counties and 11 sovereign tribal nations.
The new department will include programs and staff moved from the Department of Human Services, the Department of Education, the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health. Commissioner Brown and the agency’s chief financial officer, Ashley Reisenhower, told lawmakers DCYF’s transition is phased: early learning and some children and family services moved in July during the first phase; central operating functions and grants work transferred in October; Help Me Connect moved in January; and the largest transfers — including Office…
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