GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1859

Short Title:  Welfare Workers/Services Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Luebke, Easterling (Co-Sponsors); Braswell, D. Brown, Colton, Diamont, Jarrell, and Michaux.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 30, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR COUNTY CHILD WELFARE WORKERS AND FOR SUPPORT AND TREATMENT SERVICES, RECOMMENDED BY THE CHILD FATALITY TASK FORCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Social Services, Department of Human Resources, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for county child welfare workers and for support and treatment services to identify and treat children and families where child abuse, neglect, and dependency occur.
The Division of Social Services shall allocate these funds as grants to counties.   To be eligible to be allocated grants funds, a county shall submit its plan that demonstrates its use of funds for child welfare workers and for support and treatment services.  The Director of the Division of Social Services, in consultation with the North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services, Inc., shall establish the criteria for awarding grants and shall develop a formula for equitable distribution of these funds to the counties in a manner that allows for flexibility at the local level.
County departments of social services may use the money in-house for child protective services, family preservation, permanency planning, or child welfare worker positions.  Funds may be used to contract with other local public or nonprofit private agencies such as the area mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse authorities, to meet the treatment needs of the children and their families.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.