Program Descriptions
Admin - Children, Youth & Families
This program provides leadership and direction for the administration of Children, Youth and Family Services....
Read More Child Welfare Services
This program provides protective, rehabilitative, and supportive services for children who are maltreated and their families. This program also provides supportive and financial help to relatives, foster parents, and adoptive parents. Investigations, protective services, kinship care, foster care, adoption, and in-home services are also provided through this program. In-Home/Family Preservation...
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Number of children served in foster care 1 | 451 | 444 | 498 | 484 | 472 |
| Number of families receiving in-home services 2 | 233 | 240 | 263 | 256 | 251 |
| Percent of children placed in family settings 3 | 79% | 75% | 76% | | |
| Percent of children receiving in-home services that do not have a child protective service investigation with an abuse or neglect finding within one year after receiving services 4 | 92% | 96% | 96% | | |
| Number of newly accepted cases (IR, AR, and non-CPS) 5 | 2,679 | 2,457 | 2,505 | 2,524 | 2,580 |
Read More Linkages To Learning
Linkages to Learning is a community-school partnership with an integrated focus on health, social services, community engagement, and leadership to support student learning, strong families, and healthy communities. Linkages to Learning services include mental health and social wraparound services to mitigate the effects of poverty and reduce non-academic barriers to...
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Percent of students receiving mental health services through Linkages to Learning that experience maintained or improved psychosocial functioning after 6 months 1 | 89% | 81% | 83% | | |
| Percent of families receiving case management that experience an increase in one or more domains of family self-sufficiency after 6 months of service 2 | 83% | 81% | 80% | | |
| Percent of clients completing surveys reporting satisfaction with services received 3 | 98% | 97% | 95% | | |
Read More Child & Adolescent School & Community Based Services
This program provides for the coordination, planning, and implementation of key interagency initiatives among public and private agencies in the community to meet the needs of the children, youth, and their families. The Cluster Projects utilize cross-sector multi-agency teams and care coordination services to rapidly connect families from large school...
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Number of families served 1 | 485 | 372 | 420 | 420 | 420 |
| Percent of participating households exhibiting improved family stability 2 | 86% | 83% | 85% | | |
| Percent of families completing surveys that are satisfied with services 3 | 97% | 95% | 95% | | |
Read More Positive Youth Development
This program focuses on providing culturally-based and healing-informed positive youth development and family strengthening services, including violence prevention; gang prevention; intervention and support for youth and families who are at-risk of gang involvement and those already involved in gang activity; and youth and their families who may have been involved...
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Number of youth in safe, supervised PYDI programming 1 | 6,271 | 7,295 | 7,344 | 7,344 | 7,344 |
Read More Early Childhood Services
Early Childhood Services (ECS) serves children from birth to age five with services that support families, early care and education programs, and the community. The program administers the Federally mandated Infants and Toddlers Program (ITP) in collaboration with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), the County's Resource and Referral Center...
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Number of children served by the Infants and Toddlers program 1 | 4,311 | 4,138 | 4,212 | 4,300 | 4,388 |
| Percent of regulated center-based child care programs that hold a quality of care rating of at least 3 out of 5 in Maryland EXCELS 2 | 40% | 54% | 64% | | |
| Percent of regulated family child care programs that hold a quality of care rating of at least 3 out of 5 in Maryland EXCELS 3 | 12% | 28% | 38% | | |
Read More Office of Eligibility and Support Services
The Office of Eligibility and Support Services (OESS) serves low-income families and individuals facing significant challenges in meeting basic needs including food, medical coverage, and childcare. OESS determines eligibility for Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA); Temporary Disability Assistance Program (TDAP); Refugee Cash Assistance; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP- formerly known...
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Number of SNAP applications approved 1 | 20,557 | 19,305 | 22,416 | 22,000 | 22,000 |
| Number of Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) job seekers that entered unsubsidized employment YTD 2 | 417 | 508 | 531 | | |
| Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) job retention rate 90 days 3 | 94% | 96% | 85% | | |
Read More Child Care Subsidies
The Child Care Subsidies program administers the County's Working Parents Assistance (WPA) program which provides child care subsidies for County residents who are over the income eligibility for the Maryland Child Care-Subsidy Program (CCSP) as well as supplemental payments for those in CCSP....
| Program Performance Measures | Actual
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| Number of families authorized to receive a childcare subsidy 1 | 1,634 | 2,000 | 1,500 | 1,550 | 1,600 |
| Percent of WPA subsidy utilized 2 | 79% | 79% | 80% | | |
| Percent of families who report that the subsidy enabled them to access quality child care 3 | 90% | 88% | 95% | | |
| Percentage of families completing surveys that are satisfied with the service 4 | 92% | 96% | 95% | | |
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