Fiscal Essentials for Children's Services

Two-Day Training

This course provides participants with the fundamentals of child welfare services funding, allocations, claiming and budgeting. Participants also explore new initiatives and emerging opportunities.

Topics include:

• federal funding opportunities for Title IV-E, IV-B and Title XIX within current claiming rules
• the allocation process beginning with the November Subvention, the May revision and the final state budget with discussion of potential changes to the methodology
• tracking CWS expenditures through the claiming process, identifying the revenue maximization opportunities that are currently available
• initiatives including CWS improvement: a look at safety, differential response and youth permanency and transition as experienced by the pilot counties and participants' own experiences
• Wraparound, Family to Family and Linkages models
• current events and pending legislation including proposals to cap or limit funding and other federal updates to Title IV-E funding
• opportunities for partnering with other departments including Mental Health, Probation and the Department of Education

The two-day session will end with a discussion of current events on the local, state and national stage.

Dates, time and location

There are no sessions scheduled at this time.

For more information

If you have any questions about the forum session, please call Beth Parks or Alyson Wood at (530) 757-8643 or email human@unexmail.ucdavis.edu.