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The purpose of this message is to provide a robust overview of the following SSBG Focus Report (Decades of Service) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.

The purpose of this message is to provide a robust overview of the following SSBG Focus Reports (Day Care-Children, Vulnerable and Elderly Adults, and Child Welfare/Youth at Risk for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016.

This resource contains information about the Social Services Block Grant Program in 2017.

This focus reports presents expenditure and recipient data reported in the Social Services Block (SSBG) High Level Service Area of Vulnerable and Elderly Adults in federal fiscal year (FY) 2016.

The federal government provides funding to states specifically for the provision of child care through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).

Child welfare services impact millions of children nationally each year. An estimated 4.1 million referrals affecting 7.4 million children were made to child protective services in FY 2016.

This focus report provides an analysis of the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) expenditures for and recipients of the SSBG High Level Service Area (HLSA) of Child Welfare/Youth at Risk in federal fiscal year (FY) 2015. These services seek to improve the health, wellbeing, and permanency of children, youth, and their families.

This focus report will examine states’ use of allowable transfers of funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to their Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) programs.

The TANF block grant law provides that states may transfer up to 10 percent of their TANF grant to the SSBG.1 Funds transferred from TANF to SSBG are to be used only for programs or services to children or their families whose income is less than 200 percent of the income poverty guideline applicable to a family of the size involved (as defined and revised annually by the Office of Management and Budget).

SSBG Focus Reports Child Welfare/Youth at Risk FY 2015

SSBG Focus Reports Daycare-Children FY 2015

SSBG Focus Reports Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Transfers FY 2015

This focus report provides an overview of the Total Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) Expenditures for and recipients of the SSBG Service Category Day Care — Children in FY 2015.