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DCYF updates: home‑visiting account swept; agency seeks account restructure and begins rate and grant actions
Summary
DCYF staff told HVAC that accumulated state home‑visiting funds were swept into the state deficit, DCYF plans a decision package to restructure spending authority, and DCYF is routing rate amendments and preparing a limited Spokane expansion and federal grant (McVIE) application with new reporting requirements.
Jennifer Personius, senior policy adviser for government affairs at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), told the Home Visiting Advisory Committee that the recent legislative session left DCYF in a "holding pattern" after the legislature swept accumulated balances from the home‑visiting account to cover a deficit. "We saw our funding get swept," Personius said, and DCYF is reviewing a possible legislative decision package to restructure the account so that spending is clearer and future sweeps can be prevented.
Laura Alfani (Strengthening Families Washington team administrator) said the legislature removed accumulated state…
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