This amendment adds $75,000 each year from the general fund for the Department of Social Services to implement an emergency approval process for kinship caregivers and the development of foster home certification standards for kinship caregivers. Any new approval process created will encompass the same safety standards that non-relative foster homes must comply with when getting approved as a foster home. This will help Virginia align it's foster care approval process to the federal Family First Prevention Services Act legislation that directs states to use prevention dollars and keep children with kin rather than enter non-relative foster care. This is a recommendation of the Commission on Youth.