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Details for Service Foster Care Services
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Service Name
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Foster Care Services
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Program Name
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Out of Home Children
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Goal
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Provide services and protection to individuals and families experiencing serious health and safety needs who are not, at least temporarily, able to assist themselves with the goal of helping them to return to independent, community living.
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Objective
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Assure that children being served in out-of-home placements receive support services designed to assist them in their return to home and/or community living.
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Division
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Division of Social Services
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Service Description
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Foster Care services provide temporary care for infants, children and adolescents who have been removed from their own homes because their families cannot or will not provide protection or care for them adequately. Foster Care Services are designed to strengthen, preserve, and/or reunite families after children have come into agency legal custody or placement responsibility. Foster Care Services:
-Help families strengthen their parenting abilities
-Help children with health, educational, mental health and developmental needs
-Help young adults who are aging out or have already aged out of the foster care system
Services and resources (NC LINKS) for teens and young adults 13 to 21 who have lived or are now living in foster care system; intended to facilitate successful transition to self-sufficiency.
A variety of support services are also available to eligible student recipients of the Postsecondary Education Support Scholarships (NC Reach), based on eligibility. All services are intended to assist the student with successful completion of their academic program.
Grants, Educational Training Vouchers (ETV), provided to students who were in foster care on or after the age of 17, or who were adopted on or after age 16, or were placed in a relative guardianship on or after their 16th birthday to attend postsecondary educational or vocational training programs. For more information on NC LINKS, NC Reach and ETV go tohttp://www.ncdhhs.gov/dss/links/index.html
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Web Site
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https://www2.ncdhhs.gov/dss/
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Year First Initiated
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1980
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Available State Wide
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Yes
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Geographic Area Served
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Grants Provided
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No
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Competitive Bidding
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No
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Competitive Bidding Details
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Waiting List
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No
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Waiting List Start Date
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Number Waiting
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Waiting List Details
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Income Eligibility
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No
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Income Eligibility Method
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Income Eligibility Type
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Whose Income Eligibility
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Income Disregard
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No
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Income Disregard Desc
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Income Verified
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No
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Income Verified Method
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Income Criteria
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Income Eligibility Change
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Income Eligibility Method Prior To Change
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Income Eligibility Other
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Age Range Start
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Age Range End
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0
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18
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13
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21
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17
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21
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17
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25
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Authorization Level
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Authorization Type
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Citation
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State
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Statute
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G.S. 7B-38, 131 D, 108A 45, 48, and 49
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State
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Administrative Rules
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10A NCAC 70
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Federal
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Public Law
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Social Security Act, Title IV-E, Section 470, et seq.; as amended, Social Security Act, Title IV, Part E, Section 477.
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Budget Information
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State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2021
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As of the month of November 2020
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Authorized Budget Fiscal Year 2021
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SFY 2020-2021 Year To Date Expenditures
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Balance
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Salary and Fringes (1X)
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2,987,926
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1,141,266
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1,846,660
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Salary Other (1X)
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7,668
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253
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7,415
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Operating (2X-5X)
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865,973
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58,863
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807,110
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Contracts/Allocations (6X)
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265,200,260
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119,860,909
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145,339,351
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Reserves (7X)
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0
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0
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0
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Transfers (8X)
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0
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0
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0
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Total Requirements
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269,061,827
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121,061,291
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148,000,536
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Receipts-Federal
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107,103,104
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54,255,685
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52,847,419
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Receipts- Local receipts
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0
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0
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0
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Receipts- Other receipts
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114,389,272
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52,167,911
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62,221,361
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Total Receipts
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221,492,376
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106,423,596
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115,068,780
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General Fund Appropriations
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47,569,451
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14,637,696
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32,931,755
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Match
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State
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Local
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Other
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0
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0
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0
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