The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Additional funds for new CCTR slots are generally awarded to providers through a competitive RFA process. The department generally releases an RFA in the fall following the legislative approval of additional funds to award new CCTR slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - However, counties have expressed that realigned funds are insufficient for them to conduct what they view as new and expanded resp onsibilities under RFA, compared to prior foster family approval processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Recommend Allowing Extension for Funding for Emergency Caregivers Prior to RFA. As we expressed during the previous budget cycle, we remain concerned that statute dictates funding for pre ‑approval funding will decrease to 90   days —without any option for extension —while average RFA processing time continues to exceed 90  days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Specifically, budget language amends statute to allow state assistance to be provided to emergency caregivers prior to their completion of the RFA process, for up to 120 days (or 365 days in cases where a good cause extension is warranted) on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - RFA Preapproval Funding for Emergency Caregivers Continued. Counties provide grant payments to emergency placement foster caregivers with a pending RFA application in an amount equal to the basic rate paid to approved resource families.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/5

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - RFA and Placement Prior to Approval (PPA). To become eligible to provide care to foster youth and receive foster care maintenance payments, households must complete the RFA process. This process is universal for all foster caregivers, whether they are relatives or non ‑relative foster families, although relatives may begin providing care to foster youth on an emergency basis prior to formal approval as a resource family.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $20  million General Fund ($33  million total funds) in 2025-26 (9  percent increase relative to 2024-25), due largely to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Namely, for any new services added to the plan that are rated as supported or promising, DSS would need to ensure that at least 50  percent of Title IV ‑E dollars are claimed for well ‑supported services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Requests a Cost Estimate for Changing the Program Name. The spending plan includes supplemental reporting language that requires CDSS and the Department of Finance provide a comprehensive estimate of the one-time and ongoing costs to change the name of the CalWORKs program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/2

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $40  million General Fund ($70  million total funds) in 2024-25, mostly due to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6