2025 - 2026 Budget Book - Flipbook - Page 207
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Child Welfare
Sondra O'Reilly
Visitation Coordinator
The main goals of child welfare are safety, permanency, and well-being for children, focusing on preventing
abuse/neglect, strengthening families to keep kids home, and finding stable homes (reunification, relative care,
adoption) when removal is necessary, all while ensuring children's basic needs are met. Child welfare aims to preserve
family unity but steps in when parents can't provide a safe environment, offering services to address root causes like
poverty or substance abuse, and providing temporary care (foster care) with a goal of permanent solutions.
$100K
Child Welfare Approved Budget FY 2022 - 2026
$75K
$50K
$25K
0
FY2022
FY2023
Expenditures Actual
FY2024
Expenditures Over Budget
FY2025
FY2026
Expenditures Budgeted
In FY2025, the Child Welfare expenditures budgeted were $85,652, reflecting a 2.03% increase from the previous
period. Actual expenditures for FY2025 were slightly higher at $85,954, marking a 6.61% increase from the prior period.
For FY2026, the budgeted expenditures for Child Welfare are $91,084, which represents a 6.34% increase compared to
the FY2025 budgeted amount. This continues the upward trend in budgeted expenditures observed in the previous
year.
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