Tribal Self-Governance Study
Description of Program,
Service, Function or Activity (PSFA)
INVENTORY
1. Agency Name: Children’s Bureau/ACYF/ACF
2. Program Name: Title IV-B, Child and Family Services, Subpart 1 Child Welfare Services, and Subpart 2 Promoting Safe and Stable Families
3. CFDA #: Title IV-B, subpart 1: CFDA 93.645, Title IV-B, subpart 2: CFDA 93.556
4. Program Objectives: Title IV-B, subpart 1 objectives: The primary goal of the Child Welfare Services (CWS) program is to help State public welfare agencies, Indian Tribes and Territories improve their child welfare services in order to keep families together.
Title IV-B, subpart 2 objectives: The primary goals of the Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program are to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve the quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanency for children by reuniting them with their parents, by adoption or by another permanent living arrangement. The program includes: family support, family preservation, time-limited family reunification and adoption promotion and support services.
5. Titles and Descriptions of at least Three Funded Grantees: Information not available.
AUTHORITY
6. Authorizing Statute(s): Title IV-B of the Social Security Act.
7. Regulatory/Administrative Requirements: 45 CFR Part 1357
8. Mandatory Statutory Changes Needed to Operate PSFA as a Demonstration: Not applicable as Tribes are eligible for direct funding
APPLICANTS, BENEFICIARIES and FORMULAS
9. Type of Funding: Formula grants.
10. Eligible Applicants: States, Tribes and Territories.
11. Allotment Formulas, Etc: Title IV-B, subpart 1: The amount for Indian Tribes is based on the following formula: each State receives a base amount of $70,000, additional funds are distributed in proportion to the State's population of children under age 21 multiplied by the complement of the State's average per capita income. The amount for Tribes is an amount per the number of children in the State in which the Tribe is located times the number of children in the Tribe, times three.
Title IV-B, subpart 2 formula for Tribes: 1% of the amount appropriated to title IV-B, subpart 2 is set aside for Indian Tribes. From the amount set aside, an amount that bears the same ratio to such reserved amount as the number of children in the Indian Tribe bears to the total number of children in all Indian Tribes with approved plans. No Tribe may be funded if its allotment is less than $10,000.
12. Applicant Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: Tribal Nations are explicitly eligible for direct funding under title IV-B. See #11 for formulas.
13. Eligible Beneficiaries: Title IV-B, subparts 1 & 2: Services are available to children and their families without regard to income, or length of residence within the Indian Tribe's jurisdiction.
14. Beneficiary Provisions/Allotments in Law for Indians: Explicitly are beneficiaries. Amount of funds or type of service is dependent on the Tribal’s program.
15. Amount and Percent of Total that is Mandatory for Indians: For title IV-B, subpart 1, information is not available.
For title IV-B, subpart 2, the percentage is a 1% set-aside from the total title IV-B, subpart 2 appropriation.
FINANCIAL
16. Total FY 2000 Funding: Funding under title IV-B, subpart 1 was based on total appropriation of $291,986,000.
Funding under title IV-B, subpart 2 for Tribes was $2,950,000.
17. Amount and Percent of Total Funding Awarded to Indians: Title IV-B, subpart 1: $4,216,081
Title IV-B, subpart2: The full total of $2,950,000 was awarded.
18. For Awards to Tribes: Title IV-B, subpart 1: The range was from $115,856,000 to under $1,000 for 115 Tribes.
Title IV-B, subpart2: The range was from $725, 401 to $11,300 for 63 Tribes.
19. Total FY 2001 Funding and Amount for Indians, If Known: Title IV-B, subpart 1: Based on total appropriation of $291,986,000
Title IV-B, subpart 2: $3,050,000.
OTHER
20. How long assistance is funded: N/A
Fund use restrictions: N/A
Reporting requirements: N/A
Audits requirements: N/A
CONTACTS
21. DHHS Workgroup Contact: Gerry Neal
202/205-2629
22. HHS Agency/Program Contact: Angelina Palmiero
202-205-7240