Robert Little and the Kinship Fostercare Program in NYC (Epilogue)

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Faced with the need for draconian budget cuts, Robert Little was determined to do all that he could to save his agency's struggling Kinship Foster Care Program. Preserving the core of the program would demand two major steps: reducing and restructuring other areas of his agency and shaving the reimbursement rate the city paid to the voluntary foster care agencies. Under his own roof, Little slashed his administrative budget by 20 percent, stripped away all programs not legally mandated, and pared his agency's mandated programs in protective and preventive services to the bone. The mayor's budget office still insisted on cuts within the kinship program, imposing reductions on the program's periphery by stripping down the level of supervisory staff and staff in the unit charged with approving relatives' homes. But Little was able to maintain the core of the program-its caseworkers-almost as he had hoped; although he did have to sacrifice 200 of the most recently hired workers, he did receive a commitment from OMB to rehire that number and more once the current crisis passed. HKS Case Number 1203.1
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