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Current Activities on Child Youth and Family Policy

Update 2/6/02

 

Child, Youth, and Family Programs in the President's Proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 Budget

DHHS is slated for a 9 percent increase in the President's FY 2003, among the highest percent increases for Cabinet-level agencies. Most new funds address bioterrorism in the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the total $489 billion budget, all but $60 billion is dedicated to mandatory spending programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

  • Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA). The budget includes a one-year extension of $350 million for this program, which provides up to 12 months of health insurance coverage to low-income families who enter the workforce and are no longer eligible for Medicaid.
  • Extension of Expiring SCHIP funds. The budget proposes to extend $3.2 billion in unspent funds from the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Without this extension, states would have to return all unspent SCHIP funds to the Treasury at the end of FY2003. The funds would now be available to the states until the end of FY2006. The President's budget elsewhere projects that SCHIP enrollment will drop by 900,000 kids between FY2003 and FY2006.

Other Selected HHS and Education Budget Items Related to Children

PROGRAM

FY 2002 ENACTED

BUSH FY 2003 PROPOSED

DIFFERENCE FROM '03 ENACTED
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT

 

   
SAMHSA Children's Mental Health Services

$96.631 million

 

$96.694 million

 

+ 63 million
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)     

State grants

$22.013 million

$22.013 million

0

Research & Demonstration

$26.150 million

$26.351 million

+.251

Community-based family resource grants

$33.417 million

$33.417 million

0

Promoting Safe and Stable Families

$375 million

$505 million

+130 

Title XX Social Services Block Grant

$1.7 billion

$1.7 billion

0

Runaway and Homeless Youth

$88.102 million

$98.133 million

+10.031

Head Start

$6.5 billion

$6.6 billion

+.1

Child Care Block Grant

$2.1 billion

$2.1 billion

 0 

Maternal and Child Health Block Grant

$731.531 million

$731.531 million

0

Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriages Program *

--

$20 million

+20 
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT    

Safe and Drug Free Schools Program

$746.750 million

$644.250 million

-102.5
Special Education State Grants $7.53 billion $8.53 billion +1 billion
Title I Grants to Districts $10.35 billion $11.35 billion +1 billion

21st Century Community Learning Centers

$1 billion
$1 billion
0

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling

$32.5 million

$0

-32.5 million

Education Research, Statistics and Improvement

$385.9 million

$432.9 million

 

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* The new Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriages Program provides $20 million for grants to faith-based and community organizations to assist non-custodial fathers in becoming more involved in the lives of their children, and for grants to provide young pregnant women and parenting women with access to maternity group homes.

For more information, contact Daniel Dodgen, Ph.D., at (202) 336-6068.

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