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State budget gap forces delays, puts home visiting expansions and rate increases at risk
Summary
State and advocacy representatives told the Home Visiting Advisory Committee that Washington's projected multi‑year budget shortfall and the governor's proposed budget leave several home‑visiting items unfunded or delayed, including continued funding for 61‑09 slots and planned rate increases.
State and advocacy representatives said Washington’s deepening budget gap will affect home‑visiting programs and early learning expansions, after Governor‑elect Ferguson’s proposed budget aimed to close a multiyear shortfall with a mix of cuts and new revenue.
Mary Scruti Garland, senior policy adviser, Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), and Erica Hallock, director of policy at Start Early Washington, briefed the Home Visiting Advisory Committee (HVAC) on the fiscal outlook. “The theme of 2025 is going to certainly be the budget,” Hallock said. “It is projected over the 4 year to be anywhere from 10 to 12, and now we're even hearing up to $14,000,000,000.”
The budget pressure matters to home visiting because the governor’s proposal delays or reduces several statutory and programmatic expansions previously scheduled to begin in the next biennium, and does not continue one‑time funding…
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