Decategorization of child welfare and juvenile justice funding is an initiative intended to establish systems of delivering human services based upon client needs to replace systems based upon a multitude of categorical funding programs and funding sources, each with different service definitions and eligibility requirements.
Decategorization is designed to redirect child welfare and juvenile justice funding to services which are more preventive, family centered and community-based in order to reduce use of restrictive approaches that rely on institutional, out-of-home, and out-of-community care.
Decategorization funds effective programming that will deter children and youth ages birth to 21 from entering the child welfare and/or juvenile justice system or provide a safe exit for children and youth already in either system by partnering health, education and welfare resources for the betterment of children and families.
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