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DCF asks committee to retain $7.7M reappropriation for CCWIS, fund regional foster‑care stabilization and IT upgrades
Summary
Department for Children and Families asked the Committee on Social Services Budget to allow retention of a $7.7 million CCWIS reappropriation, to support targeted foster‑care stabilization in Sedgwick County, and to fund several IT upgrades and contract adjustments that the agency says are necessary to operate and to lower SNAP error rates.
The Department for Children and Families requested the committee restore several supplemental items and allow the agency to retain a $7.7 million reappropriation for the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS). Legislative Research’s Amanda Prosser told members the CCWIS contracts were awarded but timing left about $7.7 million of state general fund unobligated and subject to sweep; DCF asked to retain those funds to pay first‑year system costs.
Secretary Laura Howard described CCWIS as a modernization that will replace five legacy systems, provide interfaces between DCF programs and providers, and permit a single case management environment for foster care contractors. Howard told the committee DCF awarded three major contracts…
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