The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Rather, language specifies that IP-CANS assessments will be the tool used to inform rates. (Under current policies, CANS assessments are completed as part of the Child and Family Team [CFT] process.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - To assess the level of need, permanent rates will use the Integrated Practice Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (IP-CANS) assessment tool, together with a classification model, to place youth into one of four tiers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Nevertheless, this information can help us make some progress towards understanding the trend in motor vehicle  deaths. As shown in Figure  23 , California ’s pandemic ‑era growth in age 15 to 44 motor vehicle fatalities is spread across many different primary collision factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - This is particularly important for the IHSS hours shift proposal, as the mechanics of how this will work remains unclear to us at this time. In  particular, we note that the proposal to shift IHSS hours growth costs to counties does not assume savings until 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2020-21 May Revision: CalWORKs Caseload-Driven Costs in the 2020-21 May Revision

Jun 2, 2020 - (The administratio n has indicated to us that they did not explicitly account for the effects of expanded UI benefits in formulating their caseload projections.) Administration Assumes Almost No Lag Between Jobless Claims and CalWORKs Caseload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4249

Comparing CalWORKs Take-Up Rates Across Demographic Groups

Feb 14, 2023 - For purposes of this analysis, and due to data limitations, we have assumed these excluded families are sufficiently similar to other CalWORKs families to allow us to draw some general conclusions from the RADEP data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4678

Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - To determine whether older youth have more challenges accessing foster care than younger youth, SRL directs us, where feasible, specifically to compare older and younger youth on the following dimensions: Rate of reporting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - This leads us to believe that projected IHSS costs may ultimately be higher than what is captured in the Governor ’s budget for both 2024-25 and 2025-26. As such, we will continue to monitor caseload growth over the coming months and continue working to better understand the caseload impacts of various policy choices, including the recent Medi-Cal eligibility expansions and asset limit elimination (we provide more detailed information on both eligibility changes below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2019-20 Budget: Governor's Proposals for Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Feb 28, 2019 - In conversations with stakeholders and experts, many told us that they are particularly concerned about the likelihood parents will either not follow through on physician referrals or become discouraged before their children receive services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723