Title IV-E

Title IV-E of the Social Security Act provides funds for states and tribes to provide foster care, transitional independent living programs for children, guardianship assistance, and adoption assistance for children with special needs. Title IV-E Foster Care (93.658): Assistance with costs of foster care for eligible children and associated administrative and training costs.

Social Security Act, Title IV-E, Section 470, et seq. as amended. Social Security Act, as amended, Title IV, Part E, Section 477(i) P.L. 107-133

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The Title IV-E Foster Care program helps states, Indian tribes, tribal organizations and tribal consortia (tribes) to provide safe and stable out-of-home care for children under the jurisdiction of the state or tribal child welfare agency until the children are returned home safely, placed with adoptive families, or placed in other planned arrangements for permanency. The program provides funds to assist with the costs of foster care maintenance for eligible children; administrative costs to manage the program; and training for public agency staff, foster parents and eligible professional partner agency staff.

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None, State Agency Use;

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Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans), Infant (0-5), Child (6-15), Youth (16-21) Children meeting eligibility criteria for the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (except up to a 12-month period for those children placed with a parent residing in a licensed residential family-based treatment facility for substance abuse treatment) whose removal and placement in foster care are in accordance with a voluntary placement agreement or judicial determinations to the effect that continuation in the home would be contrary to the child's welfare and that reasonable efforts were made to prevent the removal (or that such efforts were not necessary), and whose placement and care are the responsibility of the state or tribal agency administering the Title IV-E program.

Formula Grants

Human Services

ACF recipients must follow the requirements in 45 CFR Part 75. Subpart C (except §75.202) does not apply to this program. Subparts D and E apply. 2 CFR 200, Subpart E - Cost Principles applies to this program.

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Statutory Formula: Title IV Chapter NA Part E Subpart NA Public Law Social Security Act, Pub. L. 74-271.

Formula grant funds may be used by the state or local (under state supervision) child welfare agency or by the tribal child welfare agency for Federal Financial Participation (FFP) in foster care maintenance payments on behalf of eligible children; for administrative and training costs; and for costs related to design, implement and operate a statewide data collection system. Funds may not be used for costs of social services such as those that provide counseling or treatment to ameliorate or remedy personal problems, behaviors, or home conditions for a child, the child's family, or the child's foster family. Title IV-E agencies must also develop policies and procedures to identify, document, and determine appropriate services for any child or youth in the placement, care or supervision of the Title IV-E agency who is at-risk of becoming a sex trafficking victim or who is a sex trafficking victim.

Progress Reports; Expenditure Reports; Performance Reports

In accordance with the provisions of 2 CFR 200, Subpart F - Audit Requirements, nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $750,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Non-Federal entities that expend less than $750,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in 2 CFR 200.503 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidance in 2 CFR part 200, and has codified the text, with HHS-specific amendments in 45 CFR Part 75. ACF recipients must follow the requirements in 45 CFR Part 75. Audits are conducted in accordance with the requirements of 45 CFR Part 75 Subpart F. 45 CFR Part 75 Subpart F applies to this program.

All records are to be maintained in accordance with 45 CFR §§ 75.361-365. Formula Grants: States and tribes must maintain all financial and programmatic records necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the program, including records of applications, determinations of eligibility, utilization of awarded grants and other funds for the provision of financial assistance and allocated indirect and direct administrative and training costs in accordance with written guidance from the Administration for Children and Families.

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The regulations at 45 CFR §§1355-1356 apply to this program. ACYF-CB-PI-22-10, ACYF-CB-PI-22-02, and ACYF-CB-PI-21-04

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406 East Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62701

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Title IV-E Adoption Assistance (93.659): Financial and medical assistance for the adoption of children with special needs and associated administrative and training costs. Title IV-E Guardianship Assistance (93.090): Financial and medical assistance for guardianship of eligible children and associated administrative and training costs. Title IV-E Prevention Program (93.472) - Funding for time-limited prevention services for mental health, substance abuse, and in-home parent skill-based programs for children or youth who are candidates for foster care, pregnant or parenting youth in foster care, and the parents or kin caregivers of those children and youth. John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood (93.674) - Funds to help older youth in foster care and former foster care youth acquire training and independent living skills so they can become self-sufficient. (Chafee Independent Living). Chafee Education and Training Vouchers Program (ETV) (93.559) - To provide resources to states and eligible Indian tribes to make available vouchers for postsecondary training and education to youth who have experienced foster care at age 14 or older, who have aged of foster care, or who have been adopted or left for kinship guardianship from the public foster care system after age 16.

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7/1/2023