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child welfare
demonstration
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How can we safely
reduce the need for
foster care and improve
the safety and success
of children and families
across America?
Nevada is one of 28 states, the District of Columbia
and one Native American tribe working to answer
this question today. Thanks to a federal child welfare
funding waiver, Nevada is implementing innovative
and evidence-based strategies to keep more
children safe from harm and help them overcome
challenges so they can grow up happy, healthy and
strong in their communities.
The specific challenges facing children and families
differ from state to state. Currently, the bulk of
federal child welfare funding under Title IV-E of the
Social Security Act can be used only to maintain
children in foster care.
The waivers are allowing states to better invest that
funding in strategies that can strengthen families
and prevent the need for foster care. They also
are providing real-time, critical information that
will shape comprehensive federal finance reform.
Nevada and other waiver states are demonstrating
how to achieve better outcomes for children
and families.
Here’s how it is working in Nevada.
project
NEVADA
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EFFECTIVE INVESTMENTS
Before the waiver, most states’ Title IV-E dollars could be spent only on maintaining
children in foster care. Now, much of the funding can go toward more effective
investments that safely reduce the need for foster care. Nevada can invest:
48,440,000
$
in existing state and federal funding
SCOPE OF IMPACT
Nevada’s waiver covers children and families across the state.
Implemented
Future implementation
The demonstration project is being
implemented in Clark County.
IMPROVING LIVES
Children
and families
involved
in the child
welfare system
Under the waiver, states will be able to target enhanced strategies for a range of
children and families. Nevada will focus on:
Children
and families
at risk of
entering the
child welfare
system
Target populations include:
• Children aged 0 to 18 in care.
• Children aged 0 to 18 at risk of
entering care.
POLICY IMPROVEMENTS
As part of the waiver, states agree to put in place at least two broad policies
to help strengthen children and families. In Nevada, those are:
Title IV-E Guardianship
Assistance Program
EVIDENCE-BASED AND
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES
Foster Care
Bill of Rights
States will draw on a series of innovative and evidence-based strategies
to improve outcomes for children and their families. In Nevada, the
categories include:
Clinical assessment
Family preservation / intensive in-home services
OUTCOMES
Increase
permanency
The high-level categories
listed here encompass a
range of evidence-based
and innovative strategies.
Check with the state for a
more detailed description
of specific programs.
Waiver-supported policies and interventions are designed to improve outcomes
for children and families and safely reduce the need for foster care. In Nevada,
the goals are to:
Increase positive
outcomes
Prevent child abuse
and neglect
Waivers were designed to be a limited demonstration of how more effective
investments of federal funding could improve the lives of children and families.
Here is Nevada’s timeline:
WHERE WE ARE
Nevada is now in the
implementation phase of its
demonstration program
2011
Congress
reauthorizes
waiver
program
2019
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
All
waivers
end
2018
Communities in 28 states, the District of
Columbia and one Native American tribe
currently are testing a range of innovative
prevention and permanency services,
including early childhood intervention
and evidence-based programs.
Evaluation of these waivers is providing
critical information to shape an urgently
needed comprehensive reform of the
federal child welfare finance system
so that all states can make smarter
investments to support more effective
services for all children and families.
Demonstration project states
Arizona | Arkansas | Colorado | District of Columbia | Hawaii
Idaho | Illinois | Kentucky | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts
Michigan | Nebraska | Nevada | New York | Oklahoma
Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Tennessee
Texas | Utah | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin
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Title IV-E waiver extension states
California | Florida | Indiana | Ohio
Updated May 2015