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State of Kansas Fiscal Year 2022
1. Name of Service Program: Family Preservation
2. Description of the Major Program Benefits, Services, and Activities:
Family Preservation Services are intensive in-home services offered to families who are in imminent danger of having a child come into the custody of the State and removed from the home unless the family can make the changes necessary to provide the child adequate care and safety. Families must be below 244% of the Federal Poverty Level to qualify for TANF funding for Family Preservation. Services assist the family in identifying and understanding the problems within the family that place a child at risk of out-of-home placement and assist participants in finding ways to change how the family unit functions resulting in positive outcomes.
The Family Preservation TANF program provides coaching and support to children and youth between the ages of seven and 18 who are exhibiting behaviors known to lead to truancy or are actively struggling to attend school. Services include mentoring, teaching coping strategies, social skills, and approaches to appropriately manage family issues.
3. Purpose(s) of Benefit or Service Program: The Family Preservation Services’ expectation are that the delivery of services will decrease the number of children placed in foster care and maintain intact troubled families without additional costly services. There are no work requirements for program participants. Each contracted Family Preservation agency provides Evidence Based Programs under two tiers of services. The Family Preservation TANF program prevents behaviors that can lead to dependency, out-of- wedlock pregnancies, imprisonment, or other negative outcomes.
4. Program Type: This program is operated separate from the TANF program and serves TANF purpose 1 and 3
5. Total State Expenditures for the Program for the Fiscal Year: $3,478,939
6. Total State MOE Expenditures for the Program for the Fiscal Year: $108,502
7. Total Number of Families serviced with MOE Funds: 19