The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - These changes (described further below) result in net savings of about $21  million total funds in 2025-26 and about $32  million total funds in 2026-27 and ongoing. Of these savings, the spending plan reinvests about $4.6  million in 2025-26 and $14  million in 2025-26 and ongoing into the CalWORKs single allocation, resulting in General Fund savings of about $16  million in 2025-26 and $18  million in 2026-27 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Stops for moving violations made by the state ’s seven largest local law enforcement agencies dropped 32  percent in the second quarter of 2020. Unlike the CHP trend, however, stops by local law enforcement did not rebound after this mid ‑2020 dip, with stops remaining at a depressed level through 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2021-22 May Revision—Child Welfare Budget Proposals

Jun 11, 2021 - The May Revision proposes about $32  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22 to begin implementation of the new federally required elements related to congregate care placements under Part IV of FFPSA. (Refer to our January analysis for more background and information on FFPSA.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4444

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

Feb 22, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 budget included around $32  million General Fund for the state ’s share of new costs required to meet the requirements of FFPSA Part IV. (Refer to our 2021 ‑22 spending plan analysis of child welfare programs here for a more detailed description of these requirements.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - Section 329 o f the WIC (hereafter referred to as WIC 32 9) e ntitles anyone who reports child maltreatment, including the child, to receive notification of the social worker ’s decision to file or not file a dependency petition to juvenile court following an investigation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

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

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