3.0.0 2837 2023-01-11T13:16:51Z 2023-01-11T13:16:51Z Senate S S 2009-12-04 111 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-12-04T19:26:55Z 2009-12-04 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2009-12-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT N L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2009-12-07 False Social Welfare Adoption and foster care Child safety and welfare Congressional oversight Domestic violence and child abuse Government studies and investigations Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations State and local government operations Social Welfare 00 2009-12-04 Introduced in Senate 2009-12-16T22:12:14Z Child Welfare Workforce Improvement Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Secretary and Congress on child welfare staff; and (2) to direct the Secretary to treat as necessary for proper and efficient state administration all state expenditures for training the child welfare workforce.

Allows funds from private nonprofit educational institutions to be considered as the state's share in claiming federal reimbursement for such expenditures, without regard to certain requirements.

Establishes a competitive child welfare workforce improvement demonstration program to assist eligible entities in developing and implementing child welfare workforce improvement plans to help facilitate implementation of the essential components of an effective child welfare workforce, throughout the child welfare continuum, from preventing child abuse and neglect through ensuring and supporting permanent families for children, in order to meet the needs of the children and families served by that workforce.

Requires an eligible entity to ensure that the responsible state agency establishes a Child Welfare Workforce Quality Improvement Task Force.

]]> Child Welfare Workforce Improvement Act Display Title Child Welfare Workforce Improvement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to examine and improve the child welfare workforce, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Child Welfare Workforce Improvement Act Introduced in Senate 2009-12-04T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s2837is/xml/BILLS-111s2837is.xml 2009-12-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.