Children and Families Services Act of 1990

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Children and Families Services Act of 1990 - Title I: Strengthening Families; Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect; Preventing the Avoidable Separation of Families - Amends the Social Security Act (the Act) to add a Family Crisis Prevention program to title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC). Provides Federal funds to enable each State to furnish, as part of a statewide system of care, intensive family-based crisis intervention programs for families whose children are at imminent risk of placement outside their homes. Provides for maintaining such children safely in their homes, preserving their families, and reducing unnecessary separation. Allows, under specified conditions, continuation of AFDC payments after removal of a child from a family and resumption of AFDC payments before reunification of a child with a family. Requires annual reports regarding such cases. Allows payment, on behalf of children who have been returned from foster care to the parents or other family members, of assistance equal to foster care maintenance payments in order to fund aftercare services to preserve families. Establishes a program of grants for State court systems to assess and imp…