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JFAC approves $14.1M supplemental and $21.2M FY2026 package for child welfare, ties staffing to performance targets
Summary
The committee approved a $14.13 million FY2025 supplemental for foster care trustee and benefit payments and a FY2026 package adding 63 FTEs and $21.25 million to the Division of Youth Safety and Permanency. Language was adopted to exempt transfers and to tie eight licensing positions to a foster family‑to‑child ratio target.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on March 14 approved a $14,126,900 supplemental for the Department of Health and Welfare’s Division of Youth Safety and Permanency and later approved a FY2026 enhancement package that adds staffing and funding to expand prevention and foster‑care services.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, said the first supplemental "is related to a population forecast adjustment for the state's foster care population. This would be a one‑time increase of 14,126,900." She said the supplemental addresses a trustee and benefit payment shortage driven by congregate care costs. The supplemental appropriated $8,868,200 from the general…
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