Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - From follow ‑up discussions with both sets of researchers, we understand that the Wang et al. (2024) analysis includes a broader set of buprenorphine products than the CDPH dashboard. To investigate this issue, CDPH examined an alternative version of their Dashboard summary using a definition of buprenorphine much closer to the one provided by Wang et al. (2024).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - If the federal SSI COLA was not enough to increase tot al SSI/SSP grants to CNI-adjusted levels, then the SSP portion of the grant was increased by the remaining amount. (Despite the state statutory COLA, there were many years prior to 2011 when the COLA was not provided due to budget constraints.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - This report examines disproportionalities and disparities across California’s child welfare system in terms of income and race/ethnicity. The report provides background on the child welfare system, describes child welfare system disproportionalities and disparities, and lays out potential drivers of these inequities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

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

Mar 15, 2024 - The department has stated that they will work together with the CSU Chancellors office and partnered leg al service providers, over the coming months, to assess the program design and determine the most effective service delivery model moving forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - As with CAPP, budget legislation exempts LIHWAP from the requirement that CSD establish regulations for the program, primarily because the program is time limited for pandemic response, and CSD will aim to disburse LIHWAP funds to address existing water arrearages as quickly as possible once feder al funds are released.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/6

The 2023-24 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 2, 2023 - This expiration of enhanced feder al funds results in roughly $1  billion in IHSS costs shifting back to the General Fund in 2023-24. Additionally, the Governor ’s budget assumes continued year-to-year growth in two of the three primary IHSS cost drivers —caseload (4.3  percent) and cost per hour (2.7  percent) —while holding hours per case flat between 2022-23 and 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4729

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - Lightbourne, et al. I and II and Dominguez v. Brown, et al .). Ultimately, the federal district courts issued temporary injunctions preventing the state from making these changes. While the state did appeal these injunctions, a legal settlement was reached in 2013 r esulting in a reduction to IHSS service hours (less than what the state initially proposed).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - Once the public health emergency and recession took hold, the Governor released a revised DDS budget proposal in May that not only withdrew most January spending proposals, but al so included spending reductions for consumer services and regional center (RC) operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/1

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - (Supervised independent living placements and other transitional housing placements for NMDs, as well as congregate facilities providing specialized care to pregnant/parenting youth or to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children, als o may continue to receive Title IV-E funding.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - However, projects engaged with the PMO during the planning phase may find their project manager provides critic al support that positions it for success. For example, one department attributed being farther along in the planning phase than otherwise expected due to the work of the project manager.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723