Federal Grant Programs – MDCPS may apply for, receive and expend federal funds

Federal Grant Programs – MDCPS may apply for, receive and expend federal funds including, but not limited to, the following federal grant programs and services available through these grants: 1. Title IV-B Subpart 1 (Child Welfare Services) [42 U.S.C. 621 § 421]: The purpose of this subpart is to promote state flexibility in the development and expansion of a coordinated child and family services program that utilizes community-based agencies and ensures all children are raised in safe, loving families. 2. Title IV-B 2 - Promoting Safe and Stable Families [42 U.S.C. 629 § 430]: The purpose of this program is to enable states [and eligible tribes] to develop and establish, or expand, and to operate coordinated programs of community-based family support services, family preservation services, time-limited family reunification services, and adoption promotion and support. 3. Title IV-E Foster Care: The federal Foster Care Program provides safe and stable out-of-home care for children until the children are safely returned home, placed permanently with adoptive families or placed in other planned arrangements for permanency. 4. Title IV-E Adoption Assistance: The Adoption Assistance Program provides funds to facilitate the timely placement of children, whose special needs or circumstances would otherwise make it difficult to place, with adoptive families. 5. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA): This program provides funding to states to develop, operate, expand, and enhance activities to prevent, assess, investigate, prosecute, and treat child abuse and neglect. 6. The Family First Prevention Services Act reforms the child welfare financing streams (Title IV-E and Title IV-B) to provide services to families at risk of entering the child welfare system by allowing federal reimbursement for mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and in-home parenting skills training.