The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - For example, between 2017-18 and 2023-24, average hours per case increased from about 108 hours per month to just over 122 hours per month. This was an average annual increa se of about 2  percent. We are working with the administration to better understand the reason for assuming the average hours per case will not increase in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Since 2017, the state has been implementing interim LOC rates for resource families, Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTPs), Foster Family Agencies, Intensive Services Foster Care, and other specialized models of foster care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - California established Cal-OAR, a local program management system, through the 2017-18 Budget Act . Cal-OAR is designed to facilitate improvement of county CalWORKs programs through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of program outcomes and best practices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The Safe Drinking Water Pilot was established through the 2017-18 Budget Act , which appropriated about $4  million General Fund for pilot benefits. Benefit issuances began in March  2022. The pilot was originally scheduled to end in February 2023, subject to available funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Since 2017, the state has been implementing interim LOC rates for resource families, Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTPs), Foster Family Agencies (FFAs), Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC), and other specialized models of foster care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Social Services Immigration and Equity Programs

Mar 15, 2024 - Although the state has provided some level of funding for immigration services since 2015-16, ongoing General Fund support of $45 million has been provided since 2017-18. By providing funding to a statewide network of nonprofits (93 organizations funded in 2022-23), the Immigration Services Funding (ISF) program provides free services to immigrants under three broad categories : (1)  legal services, (2)  education and outreach, and (3)  legal training and technical assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Based on examining narrative reports written by social workers and other case file information for a representative sample of 295 neglect investigations in California in 2017, the study identified common types of neglect as inadequate supervision, failure to protect, and physical neglect.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - In California, the caseload reduction credit for 2008 was larger than the 2007 credit and was therefore used. b Some CalWORKs cases without a work ‑eligible adult were moved out from the CalWORKs WPR calculation and WINS cases were added to the calculation in FFY 2014 ‑15. c WINS two ‑parent cases were removed from the two ‑parent WPR calculation starting with FFY 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - As part of the 2016 ‑17 budget package, the Legislature provided a COLA of 2.76  percent on the SSP portion of the grant in 2017, the first since 2005. The Governor ’s 2017 ‑18 budget proposal does not include a COLA to the SSP portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/3

Recent Congressional Action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Jan 23, 2018 - However, funding for CHIP was only authorized by Congress through September 30, 2017, meaning the state would have the higher funding level only for the first three months of its 2017 ‑18 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3734