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Understanding Fiscal Barriers at the Local Level

Understanding Fiscal Barriers at the Local Level. Based on the Colorado Guide to Blending & Braiding. Jewlya Lynn & Natalie Portman Marsh. Overview. Blending and Braiding Your TANF Initiative Funded by the Statewide Strategic Use Fund

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Understanding Fiscal Barriers at the Local Level

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  1. Understanding Fiscal Barriers at the Local Level Based on the Colorado Guide to Blending & Braiding Jewlya Lynn & Natalie Portman Marsh

  2. Overview • Blending and Braiding Your TANF Initiative • Funded by the Statewide Strategic Use Fund • Led by José Esquibel, family leaders, Family Resource Center Association, and Center for Systems Integration. • Regional trainings on Blending and Braiding • Guides to Blending and Braiding

  3. Defining Blending • Blending funding involves co-mingling the funds into one “pot” where case managers can draw down service dollars, personnel expenses can be paid, or other program needs can be met.

  4. Defining Braiding • Braided funding involves multiple funding streams utilized to pay for all of the services needed by a given population, with careful accounting of how every dollar from each funding stream is spent.

  5. Client Experience Eligibility Service 3 Service 1 Service 2 Front Door staff confirm eligibility & document allowable services. The youth receives an array of allowable services from a variety of program staff. Youth arrives at Front Door Braided Funding Process Service 1 Financial Eligibility $ Funding Stream A Service 2 $ Service 3 Funding Stream C As services are delivered, Back Door staff bill Funding Stream A for Service 1 and Funding Stream C for Services 2 and 3. Front Door staff determine youth is eligible for Funding Streams A and C. This means youth can receive services 1, 2, and 3.

  6. Programmatic vs. Fiscal • Programmatic braiding: • Program staff braid their time and effort • Fiscal braiding: • Program staff deliver services and complete activities • Fiscal staff braid the services and activities

  7. The Barriers to Blending and Braiding • “Fair Share” • Time reporting • Budget vs. actual • Sustainability • Complexity and shifting mandates • Multiple contracts with unique requirements • Federal to State to Local accountability

  8. Local Funding Wheel • Focus on long-term, locally controlled funding • Transition from using local funding to fund entire programs, to funding services or populations within programs

  9. What can the state do? • Pooled funding agreements with federal funding streams • Coordinated contracts from state to local level • Flexible contract design (case rate, fee-for-service) • Ongoing, two-way relationships between auditors and local partners • Technical assistance and training to local communities

  10. For more information: http://www.csi-policy.com/blendandbraid The Colorado Guide to Blending and Braiding Or contact us at: Jewlya@csi-policy.com Natalie@csi-policy.com 303-455-1740

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