444 (Department of Human Services)

Social Adjustment and Rehabilitation Direct interaction between a service provider and an individual(s) in need of assistance in coping with personal problems and improving social functioning. Services are provided to at risk children and families. These services may include assisting unmarried parents and their families in coping with the social and emotional problems related to pregnancy and in planning for the future and well being of the child. In addition counseling services are provided to promote direct interaction between service providers and people who need help coping with personal problems and improving social functioning or intervention and short term active treatment for individuals who are at risk of institutionalization. Also, services are provided which are designed to assist in responding to potential, actual or alleged abuse, neglect or exploitation of children who are unable to protect their own interests. Performance Measures Measures data includes: 1. # of children, seniors and other adults provided Title XX services. 2. # of Title XX service activities delivered. Program Compliance: Matching funds and expenditures are reported monthly via IL444-4131 - Donated Funds Initiative - Request for Reimbursement or C-13 Invoice Voucher. Measurements to support contract compliance: 1. Amount of the 25% local matching dollars reported. 2. Amount of allowable line item expenditures reported. 3. Number of timely and correct reports submitted monthly for reimbursement, quarterly for service provision and annually for service planning and final reporting. 4. Number of contractors submitting a budget with administrative cost less than 20%. 5. Number of contractors agreeing to an on-site compliance monitoring review. Federal Reporting: Two reports are submitted by DHS annually for federal reporting. A Pre expenditure report also known as the State’s Intended Use Plan and Post Expenditure report which is used to compare projected services to actual for each service category. Measurements to support federal reporting via Pre and Post Expenditure Reports prepared by the DHS Bureau of Basic Supports-Title XX: 1. Same as above- # of children, seniors, and other adults served. 2. Same as above- amount of allowable expenditures. Performance Standards: Social Services are delivered that are directed to achieving or maintaining economic self-support, self-sufficiency, preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, inappropriate institutional care, or securing appropriate care. 1. At least 70 % of the projected number of persons to receive services. 2. At least 70 % achievement of the projected service activities. 3. No more than 10% variance of expenditures to budget line item. 4. 100% of the required local matching dollars will be applied to the program. 5. 100% of the line item expenditures will be allowable. 6. 80% timely and correct reports submitted monthly for reimbursement, quarterly for service provision and annually for service planning and final reporting. 7. 100% expected to comply with a compliance monitoring review. 8. 100% shall have no more than 20% administration cost.

The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program is authorized under Title XX of the Social Security Act, as amended, and is codified at 42 USC 1397 through 1397e. See also Title V of the Omnibus Territories Act (Public Law 95-134), as amended. The implementing regulations for this and other block grant programs authorized by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 are published at 45 CFR Part 96. Those regulations include both specific requirements and general administrative requirements in lieu of 45 CFR Part 75 (the HHS implementation of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards) for the covered block grant programs. Requirements specific to SSBG are found in 45 CFR Sections 96.70 through 96.74. Additionally, jurisdictions (insular areas) that apply for a consolidated grant are subject to 45 CFR Part 97 — Consolidation of Grants to the Insular Areas.

(305 ILCS 5/12-10.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-10.1) Sec. 12-10.1. Local Initiative Fund - Uses. There is hereby created the Local Initiative Fund in the State Treasury. The Local Initiative Fund is created for the purpose of receiving and disbursing monies in accordance with the provisions of the Social Services Block Grant of the federal Social Security Act and related rules and regulations, as now or hereafter amended, governing the use of such monies. Expenditures from the Local Initiative Fund shall be made for services contained in the Projected Expenditure Report required of the State under the Social Services Block Grant of the federal Social Security Act. The Local Initiative Fund shall be administered by the Illinois Department, which shall expend monies appropriated from such fund by the Illinois General Assembly for the purchase and provision of social services. The Illinois Department shall execute a written contract for the purchase of social services from persons qualified to provide such services. Such contract shall be filed with the Illinois Department and the State Comptroller. There shall be paid into the Local Initiative Fund the following monies: 1. Federal funds paid to the State as reimbursement for expenditures from the Local Initiative Fund made according to the provisions of the federal Social Services Block Grant. 2. Payments by the Illinois Department for the purpose of reimbursing the Local Initiative Fund for expenditures for services not approved for federal reimbursement under the Social Security Block Grant of the federal Social Security Act either by the Illinois Department or by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Such payments shall be made by the Illinois Department in the amount that the Director of the Illinois Department has determined was not caused by the failure of a provider of services to comply with the provisions of a service contract or the provisions of the Social Services Block Grant of the federal Social Security Act and related rules and regulations as now or hereafter amended. Any such expenditures for services not approved for federal reimbursement which are subsequently paid into the Social Services Block Grant Fund shall be transferred into the General Revenue Fund. (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)

Social Services Block Grant Title XX of the Social Security Act P.L. 97-35 Fund Authorization 30 ILCS 105/5.74;305 ILCS 5/12-10.1

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7/13/2021

FY 2017 : $2,051,169
FY 2018 : $2,051,169
FY 2019 : $2,341,821
FY 2022 : $2,620,254
FY 2023 : $2,723,021
FY 2024 : $2,620,254
FY 2025 : $2,670,254