ACF-SAMSHA efforts to increase flexibility and reduce burdens on states
Both ACF and SAMHSA are committed to reducing the administrative burdens on states and their grantees and increasing flexibility in their programs. Each agency proposes to review regulations to achieve these ends. For example, rules will be reviewed that may:
- Improve and streamline the way states must apply for and report on block grants on mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment
- Provide greater flexibility to states in their mandate to provide health insurance to children within its child welfare system by permitting enhanced collaboration with Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to create more options for providing coverage and align medical support enforcement with current healthcare policy
- Provide greater flexibility to States in implementing the automated child welfare system and enhance child support enforcement by reducing notification requirements among states to free-up resources to pursue enforcement activities
- Eliminate the ACF requirement to project administrative costs on a variable, rather than fixed basis in order to simplify and reduce the time states are required to invest to determine refugee eligibility
