Maryland’s Children’s Cabinet

Sections

• Overview
• Children’s Cabinet Membership
• Reports
• Resources

Overview

Maryland’s Children’s Cabinet, chaired by Glenn Fueston, Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services coordinates the child and family-focused service delivery system by emphasizing prevention, early intervention, and community-based services for all children and families. The Children’s Cabinet includes the Secretaries from the Departments of Budget and Management; Disabilities; Health; Human Services; and Juvenile Services; as well as the State Superintendent of Schools for the Maryland State Department of Education 

The Children’s Cabinet priorities for funding are aligned with Governor Hogan’s strategic vision, and include: increasing trauma-informed services and mitigating the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs); reducing the impact of parental incarceration on children, youth, families, and communities; reducing youth homelessness; improving outcomes for disconnected and  opportunity youth; reducing childhood hunger; increasing opportunities for diversion from the juvenile justice system; and preventing out-of-state placements.

The Children’s Cabinet works closely with Local Management Boards, which use the Results-Based Accountability framework to identify, evaluate, and develop the programs and strategies needed to address local community needs and provide resources for children and families in their jurisdiction. Local Management Boards bring together local child-serving agencies, child providers, youth, families, and communities to make decisions about priorities and how resources are deployed to address local needs.  View Results and Indictors

In 2019, Maryland’s Children’s Cabinet provided $19.5 million from the Children’s Cabinet Interagency Fund to Local Management Boards that supported 126 community-based programs focused on improving outcomes for Maryland’s children and their families.

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Children’s Cabinet Membership

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Reports

• Children’s Cabinet Three Year Plan – 2021 – 2023
• Interagency Plan: Developing Resources To Address the Complex Needs of Maryland Youth in Care
  • The issue of children and youth who remain in hospitals beyond the point of medical necessity is a matter of concern for all of Maryland’s child-serving agencies. Working together, the Children’s Cabinet has developed a work plan to improve coordination and collaboration between the state agencies, hospitals, and other public and private partners. This plan includes developing placement resources to serve Maryland youth with complex and diverse health challenges. The Children’s Cabinet has undertaken a review of community and residential services in Maryland that address the mental and behavioral health issues of Maryland’s youth population. The Governor’s Fiscal 2022 Budget Allowance for the Maryland Department of Health includes $5 million dollars to address the most immediate and critical need for specialized residential care for youth with highly complex needs, as the Children’s Cabinet continues to develop other approaches to address this issue.
• • The Children’s Cabinet believes that through implementation of this plan and its ongoing collaborative work, we can better meet the needs of children and youth in our community by developing a comprehensive service approach that engages the resources of all child serving agencies and all of the essential public and private partners within the State of Maryland.

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Resources

• Universal LCT Referral Form
• Children’s Cabinet LCT Directive #3 Clarification Provided 3/19/21
• Universal Hospital Discharge Planning Protocol 12-16-2020
• Local Care Team Directory (online) or download PDF here.

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