Budgetary Direct Appropriations

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND LEARNING ADMINISTRATION
4130-0001	For the operation of the department of children, families, and learning	2,394,001

CHILDREN`S TRUST FUND ADMINISTRATION
4130-0002	For the operation of the Children`s Trust Fund	985,574

FIELD OPERATIONS AND LICENSING
4130-0005	For field operations and licensing of child care providers	6,952,362

COMMUNITY-BASED FAMILY RESOURCES
4130-0021	For the operation of the Children`s Trust Fund community-based family resources programs	695,459

HEAD START PROGRAM GRANTS
4130-0022	For grants to head start programs	6,829,048
	Local Aid Fund 100%

TARGETED CITIES
4130-0023	For matching grants to municipalities for a program to prevent juvenile delinquency and teen pregnancy and to promote high school completion for at-risk youths in neighborhoods identified by the secretary of health and human services	4,000,000
	Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund 100%

NEWBORN HOME VISITING PROGRAM
4130-1000	For parenting education and home visiting programs for at-risk newborns, to be administered by the Children`s Trust Fund; provided, that such services shall be made available statewide to all mothers under 21 years of age, to the extent possible within the amount appropriated herein; provided further, that the Children`s Trust Fund shall submit a monthly report to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means on the number of families served by this program, the ratio of home visitors to families served, and the frequency of visits made per family per month; and provided further, that $1,069,133 shall be made available for the First Steps program for home visiting services to at-risk families with children, from pregnancy through age 3	18,729,113
	Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund 94.29% General Fund 5.71%

CHILD CARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS
4130-2998	For one-time child care quality improvements	845,396
	Child Care Fund 100%

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
4130-3100	For the regional operation of child care programs and related child care activities, including provider training and child care resource and referral	11,613,023
	Child Care Fund 100%

CHILD CARE FOR CURRENT AND FORMER TAFDC AND STAFDC RECIPIENTS
4130-3200	For the employment services voucher and contracted child care program; provided, that child care under said program shall be available for recipients of benefits provided under the programs of transitional aid to families with dependent children and supplemental transitional aid to families with dependent children and the absent parents of said recipients; provided further, that child care shall be available to participants in the employment services program, and to former participants who are working for up to one year after termination of their transitional aid to families with dependent children benefits or supplemental transitional aid to families with dependent children benefits; provided further, that all child care providers which are part of a public school system shall be required to accept child care vouchers funded by this item; provided further, that the department of children, families, and learning is hereby authorized to provide child care benefits to parents who are under 18 years of age, who are currently enrolled in a job training program, and who would qualify for benefits under the provisions of chapter 118 of the General Laws but for the deeming of the grandparents` income; and provided further, that the department is hereby authorized to provide child care benefits to certain other former transitional aid to families with dependent children or supplemental transitional aid to families with dependent children recipients who are participating in education or training in compliance with regulations promulgated by the department of transitional assistance	97,719,296
	Child Care Fund 42.79% General Fund 36.00% Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund 21.21%

CHILD CARE FOR LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES
4130-3300	For the provision of income eligible child care programs; provided, that the child care for children participating in the transitional aid to families with dependent children or supplemental transitional aid to families with dependent children programs who are in the custody and care of their grandparents due to the incapacity or absence of their parents may be funded by this item	168,807,918
	Child Care Fund 55.93% Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund 42.97% General Fund 1.10%

CHILD CARE FOR CHILDREN OF TEEN PARENTS
4130-3400	For the provision of child care services to the children of teen parents	10,938,008

TRIAL COURT CHILD CARE
4130-3500	For the provision of trial court child care services; provided, that funds appropriated herein shall be expended solely for contracted services for the operation of programs to provide such services	1,909,666

SUPPORTIVE CHILD CARE
4130-3600	For supportive child care associated with the family stabilization, unification, and reunification program of the department of social services	47,997,310
	Child Care Fund 97.40% General Fund 2.10% Social Services Fund 0.50%

INFORMAL CHILD CARE
4130-3700	For the provision and management of the informal child care program; provided, that not more than $2 per child per hour shall be paid for such services	15,809,275

WELFARE REFORM CHILD CARE RESERVE
4130-3800	For a reserve for the employment services voucher child care program, subject to the provisions of item 4130-3200, and the informal child care program, subject to the provisions of item 4130-3700; provided, that no expenditures shall be made from this item for recipients of benefits provided under the programs of transitional aid to families with dependent children or supplemental transitional aid to families with dependent children who are not subject to the time limit on said benefits pursuant to chapter 5 of the acts of 1995, as amended by sections 94 and 95; provided further, that no expenditures shall be made from this item for the purposes of said item 4130-3200 until the department of children, families, and learning and the department of transitional assistance verify to the secretary of administration and finance that the portion of the amount appropriated in said item 4130-3200 which is eligible for reimbursement from the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grant has been exhausted; and provided further, that no expenditures shall be made from this item for the purposes of said item 4130-3700 until said departments verify to said secretary that the portion of the amount appropriated in said item 4130-3700 which is eligible for reimbursement from the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grant has been exhausted	18,000,000
	Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund 100%

EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE
4130-3900	For grants to cities, towns, regional school districts, educational collaboratives, head start programs, and licensed child care providers for early education and child care programs; provided, that a child`s eligibility, rates, and sliding fee scale for such early education and child care services shall be determined by the department of children, families, and learning; provided further, that said department shall collaborate with the department of transitional assistance to ensure that expenditures from this item of $20,000,000 for said early education and child care services shall conform with federal maintenance of effort reporting requirements of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grant; and provided further, that $6,400,000 shall be made available for the Massachusetts family network program	106,873,607
	General Fund 56.31% Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund 43.69%

EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES
4130-4000	For early intervention programs and services; provided, that the department of children, families, and learning shall make all reasonable efforts to secure third party and Medicaid reimbursements for the services funded herein	26,033,526
	General Fund 75.18% Health Protection Fund 24.82%

Budgetary Retained Revenues

EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES RETAINED REVENUE
4130-4001	The department of children, families, and learning is hereby authorized to expend for early intervention services delivered to Medicaid-eligible children by developmental educators and professionals in related disciplines an amount not to exceed $3,700,050 in revenues received as federal financial participation for said services	3,700,050

Federal Grant Spending

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ACTIVITIES
4130-9002	For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Child Abuse Prevention Activities	864,049

Trust and Other Spending

4130-0009

CHILDREN`S TRUST FUND

65,297

4130-2900

CHILD CARE QUALITY FUND

144,000