This is not the official budget document.

Budget Summary FY2015

Search for line item

Go

48000038 - Services for Children and Families
Data Current as of:  10/17/2014





Account Description FY2014
Spending
FY2015
GAA
4800-0038 Services for Children and Families
For guardianship, foster care, adoption, family preservation and kinship services provided by the department of children and families; provided, that services funded through this item shall include shelter services, substance abuse treatment, young parent programs, parent aides, education and counseling services, foster care, adoption and guardianship subsidies, tiered reimbursements used to promote the foster care placement of children with special medical and social needs, an assessment of the appropriateness of adoption for children in the care of the department for more than 12 months, protective services provided by partnership agencies, targeted recruitment and retention of foster families, respite care services, post-adoption services and support services for foster, kinship and adoptive families and juvenile firesetter intervention programs; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to the Weymouth teen center to provide job skills training, remedial education services, and to promote a social service program promoting growth and social welfare; provided further, that funds may be expended on programs that received funding in fiscal year 2014; provided further, that the department may contract with provider agencies for the coordination and management of services, including flex services; provided further, that funding shall be expended on children's advocacy centers and services for child victims of sexual abuse and assault; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Plymouth County Children's Advocacy Center; provided further, that not less than $140,000 shall be expended for the Children's Cove Cape and Islands Child Advocacy Center; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be allotted for the operation of the Catholic Charities Labouré Center and its Recovery Connections program; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for a contract with Julie's Family Learning Program, Inc. in the South Boston section of the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Fragile Beginnings program; provided further, that not less than $224,953 shall be expended on the College Bound Dorchester, Inc. program; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be appropriated to South Boston en Acción for the implementation of leadership development training, English for Speakers of Other Languages, science, technology, engineering and math, basic computer skills instruction, English-Spanish immersion training and Spanish-English immersion training; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the Planned Learning Achievement for Youth Program, P.L.A.Y., Inc., in Amherst, in collaboration with the department of elementary and secondary education, through an interagency service agreement; and provided further, that support for family resource centers funded through this item in fiscal year 2014 shall be provided through items 4000-0051 and 4800-0200 in fiscal year 2015
255,305,931 261,553,353