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House Finance Division 3 hears DCYF budget briefing emphasizing kinship, diversion and new case system
Summary
State Division for Children, Youth and Families Director Marie Noonan briefed the House Finance Committee Division 3 on DCYF’s budget, outlining workforce improvements, a shift toward kinship and community-based services, juvenile justice reforms and a plan to replace the agency’s legacy case-management system with “Granite Families.”
Marie Noonan, director of the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families, presented the agency’s operating and programmatic priorities during the Division 3 budget work session on Feb. 26.
Noonan told members that DCYF’s prioritized goals for 2025–26 focus on improving case practice, building a new secure treatment facility, launching a new electronic case management system called Granite Families and expanding the community service array. "We hope to serve families with the lightest touch possible," she said, describing a model that prioritizes central intake referrals, community-based voluntary services, in‑home supports and kinship or foster placements before residential treatment.
Why it matters: Committee members pressed for numbers and for clarity about where dollars and positions moved in the governor’s budget. The briefing framed the budget request as both a fiscal document and a road map of system changes intended…
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