Chief Author: Hayden (D) / Backer (R)
View Bill Text: SF 1750 / HF 1887

Current Status

3/6/17 Introduced and referred to House Health and Human Services Reform Committee.

3/1/17 Introduced and referred to Senate Human Services Reform Finance and Policy Committee.

Short Description

Establishes a child well-being model grant program.

Key Points

  • Defines child well-being: “Child well-being” means that a child is supported in the child’s family, school, and  community to have basic competencies in the following domains:
  1. appropriate brain development and ability to learn;
  2. the ability to have age-appropriate social and emotional relationships with family, 
peers, and community members;
  3. psychological and behavioral development;
  4. physical health; and
  5. spiritual and cultural well-being, with the child as an essential participant and valued member of the child’s community.
  • Establishes grant program to improve child well-being with a $10,000,000 general fund appropriation to DHS to administer the program.
  • Grant program would fund up to three social services agencies to develop, implement and evaluate programs that improve child well-being as defined.
  • Allocates $33,350,000 for FY2018 and FY 2019 to DHS from the general fund for child protection staffing and services