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SPECIAL ENEWS EDITION
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FFY 2017 BUDGET
To link to the President's Budget's Summary Document, click here.
President FFY 2017 Budget Released Yesterday (2/9/16)
As you saw in NCAF's CAPFACTs yesterday, the President proposed CSBG and LiHEAP numbers under the enacted FY 2016 budget numbers (CSBG at $674 million and LiHEAP at $3 billion). Weatherization had a proposed increase to $230 million. If you don't subscribe to CAPFACTs, click here to find out how to stay abreast of the most recent CSBG/Weatherization information.
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CONFERENCE CALL ON HHS/ACF BUDGET PROPOSALS TODAY (2/10) WITH ACF
 HHS/ACF Acting Assistant Secretary Mark Greenberg to host Budget Call TODAY February 10th, 4:00 ET/3:00 CT/2:00 MT/1:00 PT
Acting Assistant for the Administration for Children and Families, Mark Greenberg will host a call this afternoon at 4:00 ET/3:00 CT/2:00 MT/1:00 PT. Mr. Greenberg and other officials from the Administration for Children and Families (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) will describe initiatives in the new budget plan, many of which increase supports for low-income children, youth, and families.. The Administration for Children and Families oversees programs for children and youth, including child care, Head Start, child support, child welfare and family services, TANF, refugees, Community Action, etc. This conference call is hosted by the Coalition on Human Needs.
Conference Call Details:
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
4:00 - 5:00 P.M. EST. (3:00 CT/2:00 MT/1:10 PT)
Presenter: Mark Greenberg
Audio Only Dial in#: 888 989-4365/ Audio Participants Code: 1107194
The audio portion of this call will be moderated by an operator. Audio callers will be placed in a listen only mode. To ask questions audio callers will need to press *1. Call Description: Budget Call.
SUMMARY OF HHS/ACF BUDGET PROPOSALS
In case you cannot make the conference call, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, Mark Greenberg, has also posted a blog post about the key ACF budget proposals.
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HHS/ACF Budget Justification
To round out your understanding of the HHS/ACF budget including CSBG, Head Start, TANF, etc. click here to access the HHS/ACF Budget Justification. See page 197- 2004 for a detailed description of CSBG. Keep in mind these are proposals at this point. Here are key highlights from the document include
- Continue to Implement and Maintain Local Organizational Standards for Greater Efficiency
- Will issue guidance on new requirements for the ROMA Next Generation system in each state. The ROMA Next Generation effort is focused on the strategic process for performance management and the refinement of materials and training related to the ROMA performance cycle. A set of revised performance indicators for individual and family services, as well as new indicators for community-level interventions and activities, are an important part of this work. New measures will incorporate extensive state and local input and the involvement of other CSBG stakeholders, which will help managers continuously gauge and improve program operations.
 - To fully meet new performance management expectations for CSBG, ACF has determined that states and CAAs may need short term flexibility to invest in the modernization of data systems. To address this need, as a p art of the FY 2017 budget request, ACF proposes in the Children and Families Services (CFS) appropriations language authority one- time flexibility to allow states to exceed the current five percent limitation in state administrative funds in FY 2017 and FY 2018, contingent upon a grantee plan to use additional funds for modernization of data systems and integration with other social services programs such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance program. Acceptable purposes for the additional administrative funding primarily include systems development to meet federal CSBG data standards and systems integration to provide states and CAAs with expanded capacity to analyze and use data for program improvement. States would submit plans to meet new data standards and could propose improvements in areas such as streamlining enrollment, analysis of outcomes for clients who receive multiple services, assuring efficient administra
tive systems, and protecting program integrity. The normal obligation rules for CSBG would apply - Continues its request for a set aside for research and evaluation for CSBG.
- Continues last year's propose to create the Upward Mobility Project in 10 pilot communities remains. It is not noted in the CSBG section this year, however-see the Social Services Block Grant section, page 442. The Upward Mobility Project, which includes funding of $1.5 billion over five years, will allow up to 10 communities, states, or consortia of states and communities more flexibility to combine funds from up to four existing block grants that currently share a common goal of promoting opportunity and reducing poverty - SSBG, CSBG, CDBG, and HOME Investment Partnership Program. The Upward Mobility Project will require cross-program community planning and provide communities greater flexibility for use of federal funds across programs in exchange for increased accountability for results. This did not end up in last year's final budget but it is being proposed again by HHS.
Emergency Aid and Service Connection Pilots Discussion on this new proposal starts on page 359. It includes $40 million for planning grants in FY 2017; $490 million/year for four years; $20 million for evaluation. The pilot would target families with no or very low-incomes through support to approximately 25 state and local grantees. After an initial planning year, grantees could serve more than 475,000 families over the four-year implementation period, assuming an average cost of about $4,000 per family, which includes direct benefits and services, as well as and the cost of staff, including caseworkers, and other administrative costs. ________________________________________ Deep Poverty- CBPP  The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities highlights the budget aspects to address families living in deep poverty. Click here to download. It includes /inks to the more information on the Emergency Aid and Service Connection Pilots. ________________________________________
Early Childhood and Head Start 
The Center on Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has put out a summary on C hild Care and Early Education-Click here to download. It's highlight's include:
- Head Start | The budget proposal includes an increase of $434 million in discretionary dollars for Head Start. This includes funding for increasing the number of children in a full-day, full-year program ($292 million), maintaining the current number of children and quality in Early Head Start-Child Care partnerships ($10 million), and providing a cost of living increase ($132 million) for Head Start programs.
- Home Visiting | The budget also includes $20 million for a new initiative to provide home visiting in rural and tribal areas that will be jointly administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (We are hopeful this would build on the Rural Impact initiative which the Partnership, OCS, and several CAAs are participating in this year.)
 The Center for the Study of Social Policy has put out a Budget Brief Increasing Opportunities and Addressing Disparities: Supporting Young Children through the Budget, looking at the budget and its impact on young children. Click here to download. ________________________________________
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