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September 12, 2017  The Children’s Services Act requires the local Community Services Board (CSB); local Department of Social Services; local school division; local Court Service Unit (CSU) and the Department of Health to work together in providing these services.  In each locality teams of professionals and family members collaboratively decide how to provide services and funding for children and their families.  The Community Policy and Management Teams (CPMTs) have the statutory authority and accountability for managing the cooperative effort and developing interagency policies that govern CSA in the community. They coordinate the locality’s long-range, community-wide planning that ensures the development of needed resources and services. CPMTs are comprised of a parent, local government official, agency heads from local child serving agencies (community services boards, courts service units, health, social services, and public schools) and a private provider. Community agency representatives are authorized to make policy and funding decisions for their agencies. (§2.2-5204 - §2.2-5206)  The Family Assessment and Planning Teams (FAPTs) are established by CPMTs to provide for family participation, assess the strengths and needs of children and their families, develop individual family services plans, and make recommendations to the CPMTs. It is comprised of a parent and representatives from local child serving agencies (community services boards, courts service units, social services, and public schools). It may include a local health department and private provider representatives. (§2.2-5207 - §2.2-5210)  CSA Coordinators manage local CSA implementation, including program, fiscal, and administrative responsibilities. (Appropriations Act, Item 200.C.3) Discussion:  DSS utilizes CSA funds to provide for the intensive service needs of at-risk-youths in foster care and in the community.CSA service provision includes Sum Sufficient (mandated) and Non-Sum Sufficient (non-mandated) populations.  Sum sufficient funding means the state pool and the required local matching funds must cover the full cost of services in order to meet relevant federal mandates, regardless of the amount. The children and youth for whom sum-sufficient funding (“mandated”) must be appropriated are: Children and youth with disabilities who’s IEP requires placement in private o educational programs, private day or residential programs; and Children and youth who are receiving foster care services. This also includes those o meeting the CHINS determination criteria.  The impact of the sum sufficient requirement is that the state and the locality must appropriate the full amount of funding for those children in these mandated populations. If those costs exceed the amounts appropriated or allocated in the state or local budgetary processes, additional funding must be allocated. Localities can request additional or supplemental funds from the state pool to cover the state share.  Protected Funds for the Non-Sum Sufficient populations are those children and youth who are typically referred by the local court service unit, the community services board, or by direct referral from families. There is no requirement for local CSA programs to appropriate funds and serve children and youth who are in the non-mandated population.  In order to encourage addressing the needs of these youth, each locality receives a specific “protected” amount of money within its yearly allocation of state pool funds to serve children and youth who are considered non-mandated. The locality is authorized to spend up to the full “protected” amount on non-mandated children.  The protected funding provides local CPMTs with flexibility in serving children and families who need intervention, services and supports, but who do not meet the “mandated” criteria. If the “protected” amount is not spent on non-mandated children, it may be used to address the funding needs of the mandated population.  The use of these protected funds to serve specific eligible, but non-mandated children, in no way precludes the locality from applying for and receiving supplemental funds for the sum sufficient, “mandated” populations.