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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
|
-47 |
* 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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