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This Program Instruction provides instructions for title IV-E agencies that opt to adopt licensing or approval standards for relative or kinship foster family homes that differ from the standards used for non-relative foster family homes.  It also provides instructions for title IV-E agencies to implement the requirement that a licensed or approved relative or kinship foster family home receives the same amount of foster care maintenance payment (FCMP) that would have been made if the child was placed in a non-related/non-kinship foster family home.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance to states, territories, and insular areas (hereafter “states,” unless otherwise noted) on actions they are required to take to receive their allotments for Federal Fiscal Year (FY)1 2024 (subject to the availability of appropriations) authorized under title IV-B, subparts 1 and 2, section 106 of CAPTA, Chafee and ETV programs.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance to state, territorial and tribal title IV-E agencies on the actions required to apply for title IV-B, subpart 2 funding to support the development, enhancement or evaluation of kinship navigator programs.  These are federal fiscal year (FY) 2022 funds, provided in P.L. 117-103, Division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, enacted March 15, 2022. 

This Program Instruction (PI) provides clarifying guidance to title IV-E agencies on the parameters of short-term support that may be provided to kinship families with title IV-E kinship navigator funding under the flexibilities of Section 8, Division X of P.L. 116-260.

This Program Instruction (PI) notifies States of the new policy and procedures regarding the collection of funds resulting from penalties being assessed due to a State’s substantial failure to meet the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) standards and requirements in 45 CFR 1355.40.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance to state, territorial and tribal title IV-E agencies on the actions required to apply for title IV-B, subpart 2 funding to support the development, enhancement or evaluation of kinship navigator programs.  

PI-93-09

May 11, 1993

This Program Instruction (PI) provides an amendment to program instruction ACYF-PI-93-01 on the availability of fiscal year 1993 funds for the federal independent living program (ILP).

PI-94-15

August 8, 1994

This Program Instruction (PI) announces the re-establishment of authority to claim 75 percent match for certain categories of short-term training expenditures under the title IV-E program.

PI-95-09

May 25, 1995

This Program Instruction (PI) clarifies program instruction on methods of extracting data for submission to the federal adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system (AFCARS).

PI-96-15

September 16, 1996

This Program Instruction (PI) provides information on the extension of enhanced federal financial participation rate for the child welfare program under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act (the Act).