Family Services Grant Program

Chương trình này giúp ích cho mọi người như thế nào

Quỹ của chương trình Thúc đẩy Gia đình An toàn và Ổn định (PSSF) có thể được sử dụng cho các dịch vụ được thiết kế để bảo tồn gia đình và hỗ trợ gia đình cho các gia đình có trẻ em có nguy cơ bị đưa ra khỏi gia đình và cho các dịch vụ đoàn tụ gia đình và nhận con nuôi cho trẻ em trong các trung tâm nuôi dưỡng. Các dịch vụ có thể được cung cấp bởi các cơ quan công cộng, tư nhân địa phương, hoặc cá nhân, hoặc bất kỳ sự kết hợp nào của các nguồn lực. Việc nhận tiền tài trợ thông qua cơ quan tài chính, sở dịch vụ xã hội địa phương, dựa trên sự chấp thuận của tiểu bang đối với các kế hoạch cộng đồng riêng lẻ được xây dựng từ các đánh giá toàn diện về nhu cầu của cộng đồng.

Healthy Families is an intensive home-visiting program for children from birth to five years of age to improve pregnancy outcomes and child health, promote positive parenting practices and healthy child development, and prevent child abuse and neglect. Home visitors provide higher-risk families with intensive parent education, support, and referral to needed community resources such as health care, housing, and counseling.

The Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention (CBCAP) Grant is a federal program to help public and private nonprofit agencies establish and expand statewide networks of community-based family resource and support services to prevent child abuse and neglect. The state uses an RFP process to determine recipients.

The "Hugs and Kisses" play, a nationally acclaimed play for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, is designed to increase awareness and prevention of child sexual abuse. The VDSS Division of Family Services contracts with Richmond’s Theatre IV to perform "Hugs and Kisses" plays at schools throughout the state.

Data Notes

PSSF - Expenditures: 2000 expenditures reflect the federal fiscal year, not the state fiscal year. SFY 2007 expenditures do not reflect the full SFY allocation because of a change in the year-end cutoff date for inclusion in the total.
PSSF - Number of Individuals/Families Served: In SFY 2012, the increase was due to inclusion of numbers served under the Strengthening Families Fatherhood grants. Starting with SFY 2022, this count includes families served by the Adoption through Collaborative Partnerships (ATCP) program. Starting in SFY 2025, counts were switched from number of families to number of children served.
Hugs and Kisses Play - Expenditures: The increase in SFY 2012 expenditures is due to new grants and changes in the obligation/liquidation cycle outlined by the federal government.
Hugs and Kisses Play - Number of Individuals/Families Served: Counts represent estimated number of children attending the play using VDSS funds. For FY 2021, no attendance is available due to the COVID-19 pandemic. FY 2021 funds were used to produce virtual Hugs & Kisses performance and a teacher’s guide.
Healthy Families - Number of Individuals/Families Served: Prior to SFY 2008, family counts likely were an overcount due to variations in reporting by participating agencies. The SFY 2008 reporting form clarified how to count families receiving services. Starting in 2023, SFY 2017 to SFY2021 historical counts were readjusted to include counts of families only, as had been the unit of analysis up to SFY 2017.
Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grant - Number of Individuals/Families Served: Beginning with SFY 2006, counts represent unduplicated families. The definition of counts for "direct services" was changed. The counts represent direct services to families, and do not include a variety of indirect services and training also funded with CBCAP funds. Starting in FY 2022, grant and reporting cycles changed from State Fiscal Year to Federal Fiscal Year.

Data Sources

Division of Family Services Program staff
Report on Federal Contracts, Grants or Money, FAAS Year-End Reports

Family Services Grant Program