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Program Description

  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 Services provide social services to families with children who are at risk of removal from home due to neglect or abuse. These services are provided by the County on behalf of the State of Maryland Department of Human Services.

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Program Contacts

Contact Dira Treadvance of the HHS - Children, Youth and Family Services at 240.777.1223 or Deborah Lambert of the Office of Management and Budget at 240.777.2794 for more information regarding this department's operating budget.

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Program Performance Measures

Program Performance MeasuresActual FY22Actual FY23Estimated FY24Target FY25Target FY26
Number of children served in foster care 1484451532516506
Number of families receiving in-home services 2267233263268262
Number of newly accepted cases (IR, AR, and non-CPS) 32,7362,6792,7492,7242,719
Percent of children living in family settings 477%79%78%77%78%
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 5100%92%95%96%96%
1  Numbers reflect total number of children served in foster care during the fiscal year rather than a monthly average or point-in-time count. The decrease in children served in foster care is attributed to enhanced efforts to involve relatives and kin throughout the life of the cases, which shortens involvement with child welfare. Projections are based on five-year historical average.
2  Numbers reflect total number of families receiving in-home services during the fiscal year rather than a monthly average or point-in-time count. The drop in number of families receiving in-home services from FY22 to FY23 is attributed to enhanced efforts to involve relatives and kin throughout out the life of the cases, which shortens involvement with child welfare. Projections are based on five-year historical average.
3  Numbers reflect total number of newly accepted investigation (IR), alternative response (AR), and non-Child Protective Services (CPS) cases during the fiscal year rather than a monthly average or point-in-time count. Projections are based on five-year historical average.
4  Percentage reflects annual average of children placed in a family setting while in care. Family setting is defined as: family foster, relative foster, formal kinship, treatment foster care-private, pre-adoptive, emergency home, and trial home visit. Projections based on five-year historical average.
5  Percentage reflects annual average of children receiving Family Preservation (Consolidated or IFPS) services in a 12-month period that did not have an indicated or unsubstantiated finding within 12 months of the Family Preservation case closure. The 8 percentage point drop from FY22 to FY23 is due to 18 children with an abuse or neglect finding within one year after receiving services. Projections based on five-year historical average.
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Program Budget Changes

FY25 Recommended ChangesExpendituresFTEs
FY24 Approved29276834209.65
Enhance: Add Two Community Service Aides to Child Welfare Services for Service Delivery and Transportation1007932.00
Shift: Move Tax Supported Charge Backs from Department of Health and Human Services to Office of County Attorney-105175-0.50
Multi-program adjustments, including negotiated compensation changes, employee benefit changes, changes due to staff turnover, reorganizations, and other budget changes affecting multiple programs.25390970.22
FY25 Recommended31811549211.37