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The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) is an agency of the Wisconsin state government responsible for providing services to assist children and families and to oversee county offices handling those services. This includes child protective services, adoption and foster care services, and juvenile justice services.
All SNAP recipients, including those receiving FoodShare benefits in Wisconsin, will get a financial boost thanks to a major cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for fiscal year 2023.
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Parents with children in foster care who are working to reunify their families; Young adults exiting out-of-home care, such as foster care, because they have turned 18; Certain farmers and other self-employed parents and caretaker relatives; The revised plan also covered tobacco cessation products such as nicotine gum.
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent children programs.
According to Child Care Aware of America, the average annual cost of center-based infant care in Wisconsin, which is typically the most expensive group, was over $13,500 in 2022.
The law made numerous changes to the child welfare system, mostly to Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, which covers federal payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance. According to child welfare experts and advocates, the law made the most significant federal improvements to the child welfare system in over a decade.
The program enlists volunteers across the nation to help and advocate for foster youth navigating the judicial and child welfare system. CASA helps roughly 13,000 youth, about 16% of the state’s ...