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2025 Family Maintenance
Mission Statement This program supports and stabilizes families so that children who have been removed can safely and quickly return home.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Provide effective in-home services to maintain stable family environments and prevent subsequent abuse.
    1. Provide effective programs to minimize intake into substitute care.
      1. Improve parenting skills and deter substance abuse.
        Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, DCFS Children's Services Fund Statutory Authority Children and Family Services Act
        Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
        Input Indicators
        Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 152,487.4 $ 128,527.4 $ 146,297.4 $ 122,181.6 $ 106,830.1
        Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 152,487.4 $ 128,527.4 $ 146,297.4 $ 122,181.6 $ 106,830.1
        Average monthly full-time equivalents 215.0 186.0 208.0 188.0 145.0
        Output Indicators
        Intact families (end of year) 4,400 4,338 4,200 4,051 4,092
        Family cases closed 8,300 8,126 8,895 8,675 8,719
        Outcome Indicators
        Number of intact family cases open more than 12 months 670.0 634.0 680.0 660.0 667.0
        Percentage of families that remain intact during the period of intact family service provision, excluding the first 30 days from the date of the transitional visit 92.30% 92.10% 91.10% 90.90% 91.30%
        Percentage of intact family service cases not re-opened within 12 months of case closure 94.30% 94.00% 93.50% 92.20% 94.50%
        Percentage of families served under the Extended Family Support program that obtain private guardianship 74.60% 77.80% 72.20% 71.70% 67.50%
        Percentage of families housed at case closing certified under the Norman Consent Decree 73.40% 74.80% 72.00% 70.70% 76.50%
        Percentage of clients who are not indicated subjects of additional reports of abuse or neglect during the service period 99.70% 99.80% 99.50% 99.50% 99.20%
        Percentage of children who reside in the home of a parent at the time of referral that remained unified 99.50% 99.70% 99.40% 99.40% 99.00%

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