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| ACCOUNT | FY 2008 Conference |
FY 2008 Vetoes |
FY 2008 Overrides |
FY 2008 GAA |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4800-0015 | Department of Social Services Administration | 78,031 | 0 | 0 | 78,031 |
| 4800-0025 | Foster Care Review | 2,866 | 0 | 0 | 2,866 |
| 4800-0030 | DSS Regional Administration | 20,931 | 0 | 0 | 20,931 |
| 4800-0036 | Sexual Abuse Intervention Network | 739 | 0 | 0 | 739 |
| 4800-0038 | Services for Children and Families | 293,663 | 0 | 0 | 293,663 |
| 4800-0041 | Group Care Services | 228,237 | 0 | 0 | 228,237 |
| 4800-0151 | Placement Services for Juvenile Offenders | 319 | 0 | 0 | 319 |
| 4800-1100 | Social Workers for Case Management | 147,289 | 0 | 0 | 147,289 |
| 4800-1400 | Support Services for People at Risk of Domestic Violence | 23,020 | 0 | 0 | 23,020 |
| 4800-0016 | Roca Retained Revenue for Cities and Towns | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | 2,000 |
| 4800-0091 | Child Welfare Training Institute Retained Revenue | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | 3,000 |
| TOTAL | 800,095 | 0 | 0 | 800,095 | |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES | 800,095,093 | |
| Budgetary Direct Appropriations | ||
| Direct Appropriations | ||
| 4800-0015 | Department of Social Services Administration
For central and area office administration; provided, that the associated expenses of employees whose AA object class costs are paid from item 4800-1100 shall be paid from this item; provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for the compensation of unit 8 employees; provided further, that the department shall not place a child or adolescent referred by, or discharged from, the care of the department of mental health until the latter department forwards an assessment and recommendation as to whether the child or adolescent may be appropriately placed in foster care or, if due to severe emotional disturbance, is more appropriate for group care; provided further, that the department, in consultation with the department of mental health, shall establish guidelines to assist the latter department in making such assessments and recommendations; provided further, that, unless otherwise authorized, all funds, including federal reimbursements received by the department, shall be credited to the General Fund; provided further, that the department shall expend not less than $1,000,000 in the AA or CC object codes to hire medical and psychiatric staff to collaborate with the department's social workers; provided further, that the department shall employ not less than 1 full-time board-certified physician; provided further, that the department of social services and the department of early education and care shall design and implement standards for early education and care placements made through the supportive child care program; provided further, that the department of social services, in collaboration with the department of early education and care, shall maintain a centralized list detailing the number of children eligible for supportive child care services, the number of supportive slots filled and the number of supportive slots available; provided further, that notwithstanding any general of special law to the contrary, the department shall not reduce recoupment amounts recommended by the state auditor; provided further, that not later than February 17 of the current fiscal year, the department shall provide to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the chairs of the joint committee on children and families a report detailing the number of medical and psychiatric personnel currently employed by or contracted with the department; provided further, that the report shall include the number of foster care reviews conducted by the department and the average length of time in which each review is completed; provided further, that the report shall contain the number of the department's contracts reviewed by the state auditor and the number of corrective action plans issued; provided further, that the report shall also include the number of corrective action plans entered into by the department; provided further, that the report shall include the number of social workers and supervisors who have a bachelors' or masters' degree in social work; provided further, that the report shall include the total number of social workers and the total number of social workers holding licensure by level; provided further, that the comptroller shall act in accordance with item 1000-0001 if the report, with all of its components, is not filed within 10 days of the stated due date; provided further, that the department shall file a report on the first business day of each month to the chairs of the senate and house committees on ways and means and the chairs of the joint committee on children and families on the caseload of the department; provided further, that caseloads provided in this report shall include: residential placements, group care, foster care, therapeutic foster care, adoption, guardianship, 51A reports, substantiated 51A reports, the number of children who die in the care and custody of the department, the number of children on the waitlist for supportive child care and the number of medical and psychiatric consultation requests made by the department's social workers; provided further, that the report shall include the number of approved foster care placements; provided further, that the report shall also include the number of children in psychiatric hospitals and Community Based Acute Treatment Programs who remain hospitalized beyond their medically-necessary stay while awaiting placement and the number of days each case remains in placement beyond that which is medically necessary; provided further, that the report shall include the number of children under department of social services care and custody who are being served in medical or psychiatric care provided through other publicly-funded sources; provided further, that the report shall also contain the number of children served by supervised visitation centers and the number of those children who are reunified with their families; provided further, that the report shall contain information on the total number of children served, their ages, the number of children served in each service plan, the number of children in out-of-home placements and the number of placements each child has had before receiving an out-of-home placement; provided further, that the report shall also contain the number of families receiving multiple 51A reports within a 10-month period, the number of cases reopened within 6 months of being closed and the number of children who return home and then re-enter an out-of-home placement within 6 months; provided further, that the report shall detail the number of children diverted from residential settings, the programs in which they were placed, the associated cost savings from the diversion and any other measurements that would help assess the success of these programs in promoting the health and well-being of children; provided further, that the commissioner of the department of social services may transfer funds between items 4800-0030, 4800-0038, and 4800-0041, as necessary, pursuant to an allocation plan, which shall detail by object class the distribution of the funds to be transferred and which the commissioner shall file with the house and senate committees on ways and means 15 days prior to any such transfer; and provided further, that not more than 5 per cent of any item shall be transferred in fiscal year 2008 |
78,030,738 |
| 4800-0025 | Foster Care Review
For foster care review services |
2,865,695 |
| 4800-0030 | DSS Regional Administration
For local and regional administration and coordination of services provided by lead agencies and regional resource centers; provided, that flex services provided by these agencies shall be funded from this item |
20,931,487 |
| 4800-0036 | Sexual Abuse Intervention Network
For a sexual abuse intervention network program to be administered in conjunction with the district attorneys; provided, that each district attorney shall receive not less than the amount it received in the previous fiscal year for the sexual abuse intervention program |
739,182 |
| 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 |
293,662,736 |
| 4800-0041 | Group Care Services
For group care services; provided, that funds may be expended from this item to provide intensive community-based services to children who would otherwise be placed in residential settings; provided, that the department shall form area review teams that shall evaluate the feasibility of maintaining the child in the community in this manner wherever possible before recommending placement in a residential setting |
228,236,983 |
| 4800-0151 | Placement Services for Juvenile Offenders
For a program to provide alternative overnight non-secure placements for status offenders and nonviolent delinquent youths up to the age of 17 in order to prevent the inappropriate use of juvenile cells in police stations for such offenders, in compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974; provided, that the programs which provide the alternative non-secure placements shall collaborate with the appropriate county sheriff's office to provide referrals of those offenders and delinquent youths to any programs within the sheriff's office designed to positively influence youths or reduce, if not altogether eliminate, juvenile crime; provided further, that the department of social services shall file a report detailing the number of children in need of services as defined in section 21 of chapter 119 of the General Laws, for whom a parent or legal guardian, police officer or supervisor of attendance appointed pursuant to section 19 of chapter 76 of the General Laws seeks assistance; provided further, that the department of social services shall compile this report in collaboration with the juvenile court, the department of probation, the department of mental health, the department of youth services, the department of education and the executive office of health and human services; provided further, that the review shall contain information on the demographics of the population of children served, the contacts a child has with executive of judicial agencies and departments, the service needs identified for each child, recidivism rates and the outcome of individual cases; provided further, that information identifying individual persons shall not be included in this report; and provided further, that the department of social services in collaboration with those agencies, shall report its findings to the chairs of the house and senate committees on ways and means and the chairs of the joint committee on children and families no later than October 12, 2007 |
319,171 |
| 4800-1100 | Social Workers for Case Management
For the AA object class costs of the department's social workers; provided, that funds shall be directed toward mitigating social worker caseloads in those area offices furthest above the statewide weighted caseload standard and toward achieving a social worker caseload ratio of 18 to 1 statewide; provided further, that only employees of bargaining unit 8 as identified in the Massachusetts personnel administrative reporting and information system shall be paid from this item; and provided further, that any other payroll or administrative expenses associated with the management or support of such employees shall be paid from item 4800-0015 |
147,289,334 |
| 4800-1400 | Support Services for People at Risk of Domestic Violence
For shelters and support services for people at risk of domestic violence; provided, that the department shall pursue the establishment of public-private partnership agreements established for family stabilization services funded from sources other than the commonwealth; provided further, that services shall include supervised visitation programs, certified batterer intervention programs for indigent batterers and their families, and scattered site transitional housing programs, including programs to assist victims of domestic violence in finding and maintaining permanent housing; provided further, that participants in battered women's programs shall be provided with information regarding local transitional housing resources; provided further, that funding shall be made available to enhance counseling services for children who have witnessed domestic violence; provided further, that funding shall be made available for emergency shelters for substance abusing battered women; provided further, that funding shall be made available for a statewide domestic violence hotline; provided further, that the department shall continue to provide any match funding required by federal program regulations; provided further, that domestic violence prevention specialists shall be funded from this item; provided further, that not less than $1,037,000 shall be expended for the YWCA battered Women's shelter in the city of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for a contract Slyvia's Haven at Devens to provide transitional housing to pregnant and parenting women and girls; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for a domestic violence prevention program called 'Teens-At-Risk', operated by Portal To Hope for the communities of Everett, Lynn, Malden and Medford; provided further, that not less than $90,000 shall be expended for the Western Mass Women's Initiative Survivor's Project; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended for the Planned Learning Achievement for Youth program in Amherst, in collaboration with the department of education, through an interagency service agreement; provided further, that not less than $15,000 shall be expended for the Words not Weapons mentoring project in the town of Saugus; provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended for the Southern Hilltown Domestic Violence Coalition; and provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended for the Melrose Alliance Against Violence; and provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended for the Wakefield Alliance Against Violence |
23,019,767 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| Retained Revenues | ||
| 4800-0016 | Roca Retained Revenue for Cities and Towns
The department of social services may expend for the operation of the transitional employment program an amount not to exceed $2,000,000 from revenues collected from various state, county and municipal government entities, as well as state authorities, for the costs related to the provision of services by the participants and the overhead costs and expenses incurred by the not-for-profit managing agent selected by the commissioner for administering the program; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of social services may enter into a contract with Roca, Inc., a not for profit community based agency, to manage the transitional employment program and to provide services to participants from the ageing out population, parolees, probationers, youth service releases, or other community residents considered to have employment needs |
2,000,000 |
| 4800-0091 | Child Welfare Training Institute Retained Revenue
The department of social services may expend not more than $3,000,000 in federal reimbursements received under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act during fiscal year 2008 for the purposes of developing a training institute for professional development of social workers at the department of social services with the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Salem State College; provided, that for the purposes of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lesser of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system; provided further, that notwithstanding section 1 or any other general or special law to the contrary, federal reimbursements received in excess of $3,000,000 shall be credited to the General Fund; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for lease-purchases or the Family-Net system |
3,000,000 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Grant Spending | 17,620,408 | |
| 4800-0005 | Children's Justice Act
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Children's Justice Act |
354,720 |
| 4800-0007 | Family Violence Prevention and Support Services
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, The Family Violence Prevention and Support Services Act |
1,812,749 |
| 4800-0009 | Social Security Act - Title IV-E Independent Living Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Title IV-E Independent Living |
3,242,415 |
| 4800-0013 | Family Preservation and Support Services
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Family Preservation and Support Services |
4,936,768 |
| 4800-0085 | Education and Training Voucher Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Educational & Training Voucher Program |
1,108,019 |
| 4800-0086 | Adoption Opportunities
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Adoption Opportunities Grant |
350,000 |
| 4800-0087 | Supervised Visitation
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant |
374,745 |
| 4800-0088 | Training of Child Welfare Agency Supervisors
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Training of Child Welfare Agency Supervisors |
249,722 |
| 4800-0089 | Adoption Incentive Payments
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Adoption Incentive Payments |
16,000 |
| 4899-0001 | Social Security Act - Title IV-B Child Welfare Services
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Title IV-B Child Welfare Services |
4,601,492 |
| 4899-0022 | Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment |
573,778 |