Child Welfare and Youth Services

PCG Human Services child welfare experts offer a number of consulting service – from Title IV-E eligibility determination to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) advocacy – to ensure the efficient operation of these agencies and their programs in order to meet the critical needs of children under their care.

PCG Human Services also helps state and local juvenile justice and youth probation agencies around the country to improve operations, increase revenue, and improve service to youths under their care.

As representative payee of trust funds for children in foster care, including Social Security benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Retirement, Survivor, and Disability Insurance (RSDI), your agency is tasked with great fiduciary responsibility.

 

PCG Human Services is ready to assist your state with claiming of federal reimbursement for state child welfare services. PCG Human Services™ has developed automated systems for all aspects of claim production, including, most recently, the random moment time study (RMTS).

 

PCG Human Services, a seasoned provider of child welfare consulting services with 25 years of experience in the field, can assist child welfare agencies and provider networks in structuring and calculating the proper rates for providers of foster care, child placing agencies, and residential institutions. We can also help child welfare departments by successfully implementing a structure to collect the cost of care and assess current rate methodologies.

 

PCG Human Services can maximize the recovery of funds and assess structural and fiscal issues that impede your agency or county’s ability to maximize its revenue. We can also help ensure your agency’s practices are compliant with all federal and state regulations, including Office of Management and Budget (OMB) A-87 (2 CFR Part 225).

 

Children in the care of child welfare agencies are some of the most vulnerable populations in disaster and emergency situations. To protect them, child welfare agencies must go beyond “having a disaster plan” and develop specific capabilities to take protective actions before, during, and after a disaster happens.

 

Local, county and state agencies are experiencing unprecedented reductions in public dollars across the country, while not being relieved of federally mandated requirements to provide services that ensure the safety, well-being, and permanency of all children under purview.

 

PCG Human Services has successfully guided and supported state agencies to manage and maximize reimbursements for Medicaid Rehabilitative Services provided to various populations, including adults in residential and out-patient programs, children in foster care, children in juvenile justice programs, and children in school-based programs.

 

PCG Human Services has successfully guided and supported agencies through the implementation of Medicaid Targeted Case Management (TCM) service billing. We have also reviewed rate setting methodologies and existing programs.

 

PCG Human Services is a proven vendor for outsourced operations of state child welfare agencies.

 

PCG Human Services is a proven quality assurance vendor. Several of our child welfare contracts hold us accountable with accuracy performance standards that we regularly achieve.

 

Public Consulting Group (PCG) is a national leader in the review, development, and administration of Random Moment Time Studies (RMTS). We can help you maximize the recovery of funds and ensure compliance with federal and state regulations regarding the operation of time studies.

 

PCG Health offers numerous time tracking options and offers its unique software, AlloTrac™, to make time tracking processes uncomplicated and easy to manage. Services include:

• Review and modification of existing time tracking processes;
• Hosting of AlloTrac, a web-based 100% time tracking tool;
• Develop agency or school based time tracking systems.

 

PCG Human Services has significant experience with allowability of specific costs composing the per diem rate. We understand the mixture of expenses a state must incur for the payment of services in out-of-home placement as well as some services that might be included in a per diem for in-home services.

 

PCG Human Services understands the unique requirements of each federal fund source, and understands how using the funds collectively maximizes benefits of the funds and enhances and strengthens the services to the intended clients.

 

PCG Human Services is a national expert in Title IV-E regulation and eligibility determination guidelines. We have extensive experience in helping states navigate ongoing eligibility determination processes. We can help you ensure federal compliance with your case reviews and help enhance your title IV-E revenue.

 

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Department of Appeals Board (DAB) have made landmark rulings with the review of Title IV-E foster care costs in Georgia and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Increased scrutiny at the federal level to confirm that child welfare agencies are only claiming allowable Title IV-E costs has increased oversight and financial pressures for child welfare agencies and providers across the country.

 

PCG Human Services helps states to obtain Waivers and to design, develop, and implement innovative programs that will improve access, continuity, and quality of care, improve consumer satisfaction, and maintain compliance with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for cost-effectiveness and budget neutrality.