The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - In such cases, this rigid approach would result in resources being tied up unnecessarily for most of the year, undercutting the state ’s priority of quickly deploying funds for developers to build projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - DSS also is in the final phases of contracting for the Financial Management Coordinator for the Strengths Building and Child and Family Determination Program. This contracted third-party entity will be responsible for administering payments for foster youth ’s activities under the strengths building component of the Tiered Rate Structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - For youth who exit foster care, unspent strengths building dollars can continue to be spent down through the next fiscal year, providing youth some continued financial support for their activities after exit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Counties will continue to scope their programs and build the needed capacities to deliver their selected services in the coming years. We describe some trends from the counties and their CPPs in the next several paragraphs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - The implementation period for the activity funds as part of the BH-CONNECT project will overlap with the anticipated launch of the Strengths Building and Child and Family Determination Program as part of the Tiered Rate Structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The initiative has four main components: $30.3  Million for Community Capacity Building. This funding is intended to be provided to local community partners —such Area Agencies on Aging, Caregiver Resource Centers, and Community Based Adult Services programs —to assist these organizations in building the capacity to identify and serve older adults with behavioral health needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides General Fund support for the demolition of the existing State Printing Plant buildings and other associated structures. Resources Building Renovation ($8.9  Million). The budget provides General Fund support for the initial planning phase —known as the performance criteria —for the renovation of the Resources Building, a roughly 520,000 net useable square feet building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Signed Contracts to Build, Lease, and Purchase Network Expected by End of 2023. CDT expects all contracts necessary to build, lease, and purchase individual network segments will be signed by the end of 2023, which will encumber both the federal ARP fiscal relief funds and General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

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

May 24, 2024 - Conce rns also were raised that NMDs should be able to directly control their allocated strengths building dollars, rather than the dollars being managed by a DSS-contracted spending plan manager. In response, the updated TBL clarifies that strengths building dollars for NMDs in SILPs should go directly to the youth, rather than through a spending plan manager.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3