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Training

• ACF-CB-PI-10-12
  This program instruction covers the Fiscal Year 2011 Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) rates affecting programs under IV-E of the Social Security Act.
• ACF-CB-PI-10-11
  The purpose of this Program Instruction (PI) is to provide title IV-E agencies comprehensive information on the provisions of titles IV-B and IV-E as a result of the amendments made by the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, P.L. 110-351. In addition to providing new guidance on the option for a title IV-E agency to extend assistance for the foster care maintenance, adoption assistance, and/or kinship guardianship programs to an eligible youth age 18 and older up to age 21, this instruction provides additional guidance on the other provisions of P.L. 110-351 and the flexibilities afforded to a title IV-E agency in complying with the law. This instruction also provides instruction on changes to the titles IV-B/IV-E plan requirements as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148).
• Child Welfare Policy Manual 8.1H, Q#1
  Permits title IV-E agencies to claim the costs of short-term training for relative guardians, attorneys and others.
• Child Welfare Policy Manual 8.1H, Q#8
  Permits title IV-E agencies to claim the costs of short-term training for relative guardians, attorneys and others.
• Child Welfare Policy Manual 8.1H, Q#17
  Permits title IV-E agencies to claim the costs of short-term training for relative guardians, attorneys and others.
• Child Welfare Policy Manual 8.1H, Q#18
  Permits title IV-E agencies to claim the costs of short-term training for relative guardians, attorneys and others.
• Child Welfare Policy Manual 8.1H, Q#19
  Permits title IV-E agencies to claim the costs of short-term training for relative guardians, attorneys and others.
• Child Welfare Policy Manual 8.1H, Q#20
  Permits title IV-E agencies to claim the costs of short-term training for relative guardians, attorneys and others.
• ACF-CB-PI-09-08
  Provides a revised Title IV-E plan pre-print that incorporatesthe statutory provisions made by Public Law 110-351 which are effective through fiscal year 2010.