Amendment #722 to H4000

DCF- Kinship Placement, Shelter and Voluntary Services Reporting

Representatives Khan of Newton, Collins of Boston, Decker of Cambridge, Devers of Lawrence, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Garballey of Arlington, Gordon of Bedford, Kocot of Northampton, McMurtry of Dedham, Provost of Somerville, Sannicandro of Ashland and Andrews of Orange move to amend the bill in section 2, in item 4800-0015, in line 63, by inserting after “workers” the following: "for each area office, (a) the number of kinship guardianship subsidies provided in the quarters covered by the report and the number of kinship guardianship subsidies provided in that quarter for which federal reimbursement was received; (b)  the total spending on services other than case management services provided to families for the purposes of keeping a child with the child’s parents or reunifying the child with the child’s parents, spending by type of the service and the unduplicated number of families that receive the services; (c) the total number of families residing in shelters paid for by the department, a list of where the families are sheltered, the total cost and average cost per family of those shelters and a description of how the department determines who does or does not qualify for shelter; (d)  the number of requests for voluntary services broken down by type of service requested, whether the request was approved or denied, the number of families that are denied voluntary services and receive a 51A report, the reasons for denying the service and what, if any, referrals were made for services by other agencies or entities;"