Foster Care Title Iv-E in Arizona

What the 93.658–Arizona join is

CFDA 93.658 is titled FOSTER CARE TITLE IV-E. Crossed with Arizona place of performance, obligations sum to $821,670,645.73 on 21 awards. The national Foster Care IV-E hub includes other states. Arizona’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $821,670,645.73 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of children in care in Phoenix or Tucson.

Twenty-one awards is a concentrated Title IV-E pattern: foster-care assistance typically posts as a modest number of large instruments to a state. The join does not name DCS, list counties, or count placements. Packet facts stop at $821,670,645.73, 21 awards, AZ, and 93.658. Correlation is not causation.

93.658 is not Adoption Assistance

Adoption Assistance (CFDA 93.659) is a different HHS catalog on this same slice. Mixing adoption dollars into $821,670,645.73 would invent a broader child-welfare total than this cell contains. Facts available: Arizona, CFDA 93.658, $821,670,645.73, 21 awards. Per-diem rates, tribal IV-E agreements, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Foster Care Title IV-E, not a ranking of time in care. Dividing $821,670,645.73 by 21 yields about $39.13 million per award—a state-agency scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 21 is not a count of foster homes.

Questions

How much Foster Care Title IV-E funding is obligated in Arizona?

USAspending records $821,670,645.73 in CFDA 93.658 obligations with Arizona place of performance on 21 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Adoption Assistance. Keep Foster Care Title Iv-E and Arizona together when citing $821,670,645.73.

Is this the same as Adoption Assistance in Arizona?

No. Foster Care Title IV-E is CFDA 93.658. Adoption Assistance uses CFDA 93.659. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $821,670,645.73. 21 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Does 21 awards mean 21 children?

21 is a USAspending award-record count, not a child or foster-home census. The implied mean is about $39.13 million per award. Unique recipients and caseload counts are unpublished. Obligations of $821,670,645.73 are not outlays.

Is $821.7 million Arizona’s full federal child-welfare spend?

No. $821,670,645.73 is only the 93.658 × Arizona cell. Adoption Assistance and other HHS catalogs appear on separate Arizona program pages. Nationwide 93.658 is not limited to Arizona. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.658 × AZ pair.