Private agencies that play a major role in Florida’s child-welfare system will share an increase of more than $17 million under a new funding formula approved by lawmakers during last month’s special legislative session.

Most of the new money will go to community-based care agencies—or CBCs, as they’re known—in Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and St. Lucie counties and in Southwest Florida, areas where the state system has seen the largest increases of children coming into foster care.