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House panel reviews DCF budget as department proposes targeted program cuts and revenue realignments
Summary
Department for Children and Families told the House Human Services Committee it prioritized statutorily required services while proposing cuts and realignments across child welfare, adoption supports and childcare programs; members pressed the department for details on impacts and timelines.
Department for Children and Families officials outlined their proposed fiscal year 2027 budget to the House Human Services Committee, saying constrained resources required prioritizing statutorily mandated services while trimming or eliminating some prevention and grant programs.
Erica Ravecki, deputy commissioner of the Family Services Division, described a three-part, net-neutral TANF revenue realignment intended to maximize federal funding and an annualization of pay-grade changes from last year’s social worker class-action settlement. She also identified programmatic reductions, including a proposed 25% cut to the post-permanence program (limiting eligibility to adoptions facilitated by DCF), a 50% reduction to the Nurturing Parent parenting-classes program administered by Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, and elimination of a $200,000 post-adoption…
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