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Child Support Services presents lean budget, stresses family-centered approach
Summary
Karen Roy, director of San Francisco's Department of Child Support Services, told the Budget and Finance Committee the department will live within reduced federal and state funding by prioritizing direct services, renegotiating real estate leases, and seeking grant matches; FY2013 collections totaled $26.6 million.
Karen Roy, director of the San Francisco Department of Child Support Services, told the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee that the department will absorb funding reductions while protecting client services.
Roy said the department collected and distributed $26,600,000 in federal fiscal year 2013, and that 96 percent of that — $25,400,000 — went directly to families. She described a shift in practice from a punitive model to a "family-centered" approach intended to help parents overcome barriers to employment, housing and stability.
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