The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - The program, which initially was funded as part of the 2019-20 budget package, in cludes a statewide hotline and in-person county mobile response units. The statewide hotline was implemented in March  2021 and counties implemented their mobile response teams in July 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

The 2021-22 May Revision—Child Welfare Budget Proposals

Jun 11, 2021 - For all other activities for 2020 ‑21, the Legislature approved the listed amounts as part of the Budget Bill Jr. package in April 2021. c For 2021 ‑22, funds are proposed by the administration for July through December 2021. d Funding for state contracts for technology and hotlines in 2019 ‑20 is included in the amount for Family Resource Centers funding. e In addition to the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4444

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - To meet this requirement, the administration proposes to contract with and fund a virtual telehealth hotline, facilitating interaction between STRTPs and nurses at any time. QI Assessment of Congregate Care Placements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Essentially, a community pathway will allow families to access prevention services prior to a call being made to the child welfare hotline, thus potentially mitigating for that family the trauma and stigma that can accompany formal child welfare system involvement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - TBL specifies that DSS and DHCS will contract with a statewide (and/or regional) 24/7 nursing care hotline(s), available to all STRTPs, to provide virtual access to licensed nursing care at any time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - For instance, a mandated reporter may make a report to the child welfare hotline based on observing a child who appears malnourished —which may or may not ultimately meet the statutory definition of reportable neglect.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

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

Feb 22, 2022 - (Flexibilities and expansions for NMDs were included in the 2020 ‑21 Budget Act. ) For all other activities for 2020 ‑21, the Legislature approved the listed amounts as part of the Budget Bill Jr. package in April 2021. c 2021 ‑22 funding expired December 31, 2021 for technology distribution, rate flexibilities for resource families, and flexibilities and expansion for NMDs/former NMDs. 2021 ‑22
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - When a county CWS agency receives a report of suspected child maltreatment to its reporting hotline, county CWS social workers review information provided in the report and decide whether to conduct an in ‑person investigation to determine if the alleged child maltreatment is “substantiated ” —has actually occurred as defined in state law —or to “evaluate out ” the report and not pursue further investigation of maltreatment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

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