This amendment provides $300,000 the second year from the general fund for the Department of Social Services to expand the existing program with current providers to find relative and fictive kin at the time of entry into foster care or when an out-of-home placement is needed before entry into foster care. The current program eligibility is for youth who are placed in congregate care or who have been in foster care for twelve months or more and are not placed with kinship foster parents. Additional funding will enable existing providers to hire additional staff for this program, expanding services to ensure that children entering fostering care are promptly assigned a kinship specialist to locate relatives and fictive kin. Additional staff will serve more children in more locations across the state.