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CWLA Releases FY 2026 Budget Chart
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On Tuesday, February 3, the House passed a package of five FY 2026 Appropriations bills, including the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) bill and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) bill, which include vital human service programs. The packaged also included a nine-day continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security, giving Congress more time to negotiate the details of that bill.
This package includes critical funding for children and families, such as child welfare services, child care and Head Start, mental and behavioral health, education, and more. There are some important, albeit small, increases for certain programs:
• The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Head Start each received $85 million over FY 2025 funding
• Title IV-B Promoting Safe and Stable Families program funding is increased, per the 2024 reauthorization
• Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) funding is increased, per the 2022 reauthorization
• Maternal and Child Health Block Grant
• Mental health programs, including the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, 988 Suicide Prevention Line, and Children's Mental Health Services
CWLA has published our final FY 2026 Budget Chart, tracking a number of programs across child welfare, education, juvenile justice, and mental and behavioral health funding streams. Each year, we compare the final budget with the previous two years; this year, we chose to compare FY 2026 to the final FY 2024 budget because FY 2025 funding was enacted as a full-year continuing resolution that carried forward these spending levels. There are footnotes in the chart where FY 2024 and FY 2025 significantly differ, mainly for entitlement programs.
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