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Account	Description	FY07 GAA	FY08 GAA
4800-0038	Services for Children and Families For stabilization, unification, reunification, permanency, adoption, guardianship and foster care services provided by the department of social services; provided, that services funded through this item shall include shelter services, substance abuse treatment, family reunification networks, young parent programs, parent aides, education and counseling services, family preservation services, foster care, adoption and guardianship subsidies, tiered reimbursements used to promote the foster care placement of children with special medical and social needs, 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, support services for foster, kinship and adoptive families and juvenile firesetter programs; provided further, that any child who would have been eligible for a clothing benefit under regulations in place on January 1, 2006, shall receive a clothing benefit in fiscal year 2008; provided further, that not less than $2,300,000 shall be expended for the Young Parent Support Program; provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended on the recruitment and retention of foster parents; provided further, that not less than $498,850 shall be expended for Latinas y Ninos and Casa Esperanza; provided further, that not less than $300,000 shall be expended for Massachusetts Families for Kids; provided further, that not less than $300,000 shall be expended for Summerhill House in Norwood; provided further, that not less than $300,000 shall be expended for a statewide contract with Northeastern University for violence prevention and conflict resolution program; provided further, that not less than $298,000 shall be expended for alternative schools for students aged 14 to 16, inclusive, who are placed before the court on child in need of services petitions in region 6; provided further, that not less than $257,000 shall be expended for the Laboure Center in South Boston; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the operation of a juvenile firesetters program to be operated by the Massachusetts Coalition for Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Programs; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended to support the family center component of the Greater Lowell Family Resource Center; provided further, that not less than $187,500 shall be expended for the Center for Family Connections to provide therapeutic and rehabilitative mental health services, targeted research on well-being outcomes and permanency planning for older, hard-to-place youth and those aging out of the system; provided further, that $187,000 shall be expended for the operation of the Bristol County clinic advocacy center; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for a contract with Julie's Family Learning program in the South Boston section of the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended in region 1 for a community-based family unification counseling program to prevent juvenile delinquency; provided further, that not less than $140,000 shall be expended for the MSPCC Franklin County Supervised Visitation Program; provided further, that not less than $140,000 shall be expended for the Comprehensive School Age Parenting Program, Inc. for maintaining and expanding its year-round school based programs in Boston high schools, middle schools, pilot schools and small schools education complexes for pregnant teens, young mothers and fathers and other youth at high risk for school drop out; provided further, that not less than $130,000 shall be expended for the Children's Cove Cape and Islands Child Advocacy Center; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended for North End Outreach Network of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended for the South End Community Center of Springfield, Inc.; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended for a family re-unification program operated by Aid to Incarcerated Mothers to maintain strong parent-child relationships during a mother's incarceration; provided further, that not less than $104,123 shall be expended on the Teen Parenting program at Framingham High School; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Dunbar Community Center in the city of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Families Untied for Teens' Health; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended by the Framingham office of the department of social services for the Metrowest Campership program operated by the Ashland youth advisory board; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the purpose of providing case management services for the Amity Transitional Housing program in the city of Lynn; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for Family Service, Inc. of Lawrence; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for youth services at the youth center in Uxbridge; provided further, that not less than $45,000 shall be expended for a contract with Big Brothers and Sisters of Cape Cod and the Islands; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for Centro Presente of Cambridge; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the Concilio Hispano in Somerville; provided further, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended for the Massachusetts Association of Portuguese Speakers of Cambridge; provided further, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended for the Haitian Coalition of Somerville; and provided further, that not less than $15,000 shall be expended for a contract with child and family services of Cape Cod for the court diversion program	281,277,809	293,662,736

 
 

HISTORICAL SPENDING CATEGORIES ($000)

SPENDING CATEGORY	FY04 Spending	FY05 Spending	FY06 Spending	FY07 Spending	FY08 GAA
Wages & Salaries	40	135	506	500	518
Operating Expenses	54	66	459	0	0
Public Assistance	247,990	258,573	263,000	288,198	293,145
TOTAL	248,083	258,773	263,964	288,697	293,663

* FY07 Projected Spending includes the budget plus nearly $1 billion in spending from FY06 supplemental budgets.

 

 

Earmarks

EARMARK DESCRIPTION	FY08
Aid to Incarcerated Mothers	125,000
Alternative schools for students ages 14 to 16, inclusive, who are placed before the court on children-in-need-of-services petitions in region 6	298,000
Big Brothers ~ Big Sisters of Cape Cod and the Islands	45,000
Bristol County Child Advocacy Center	187,000
Casa Esperanza and Latinos y Ninos to implement a family stabilization and reunification program	498,850
Case Management Services for the Amity Transitional Housing Program in Lynn	50,000
Center for Family Connections Mental Health Services	187,500
Centro Presente	25,000
Child and family services of Cape Cod for the court diversion program	15,000
Children’s Cove Cape and Islands Child Advocacy Center	130,000
Community-Based Family Reunification Services to Prevent Delinquency	150,000
Comprehensive School-Age Parenting Program, Inc. for expansion of a year-round school based program in Boston high schools for pregnant teens, young mothers and fathers and for other youth at risk for school drop-out	140,000
Concilio Hispano in Somerville	25,000
Dunbar Community Center	100,000
Families United for Teens' Health	100,000
Family Services Inc.	50,000
Greater Lowell Family Resource Center	200,000
Haitian Coalition of Somerville	20,000
Julie's Family Learning program	150,000
Juvenile firesetters program	250,000
Laboure Center	257,000
MA Association of Portuguese Speakers	20,000
Massachusetts Families for Kids	300,000
MetroWest Campership program operated by the Ashland Youth Advisory Board in partnership with said department	60,000
MSPCC Franklin County Supervised Visitation Program	140,000
North End Outreach Network of Springfield	125,000
Recruitment of foster care families	500,000
South End Community Center	125,000
Statewide contract with Northeastern University for violence prevention and conflict resolution	300,000
Summerhill House	300,000
Teen Parenting Project at Framingham High School	104,123
Young Parent Support Program	2,300,000
Youth Services in Uxbridge	50,000