The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $20  million General Fund ($33  million total funds) in 2025-26 (9  percent increase relative to 2024-25), due largely to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Namely, for any new services added to the plan that are rated as supported or promising, DSS would need to ensure that at least 50  percent of Title IV ‑E dollars are claimed for well ‑supported services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Requests a Cost Estimate for Changing the Program Name. The spending plan includes supplemental reporting language that requires CDSS and the Department of Finance provide a comprehensive estimate of the one-time and ongoing costs to change the name of the CalWORKs program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/2

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $40  million General Fund ($70  million total funds) in 2024-25, mostly due to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Researchers must exercise some discretion as they decide which specific product names should count as buprenorphine for the purpose of tracking aggregate trends in medication ‑assisted treatment. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Census and in state data sources, namely: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic, white, and other race or multiracial. We note that some groups may prefer different terminology to refer to racial and ethnic groupings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - We are working with the administration to understand what underlying assumptions it made for the 2021 ‑ 22 b udget proposal around continued implementation of certain CCR elements, namely the LOC protocol tool, CFTs, and CANS assessments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

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

May 24, 2024 - Stakeholders shared significant feedback, particularly related to the new program elements proposed for the rates structure, namely the strengths building and immediate needs components. Based on our understanding of stakeholder feedback and initial r eview of the updated TBL, it seems that the administration has made numerous amendments to the proposed language that are directly responsive to stakeholder feedback.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - This program is intended to be an early intervention program through which public health nurses partner with the county child welfare agency to provide preventative services to children and families at imminent risk of entering or re-entering the child welfare system, but currently not served by other public health nurse programs (namely, the Child Welfare Public Health Nursing General Program or Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2023 - Namely, CCR aims to: (1)  end long ‑term congregate care placements; (2)  increase reliance on home ‑based family placements; (3)  improve access to supportive services regardless of the kind of foster care placement a child is in; and (4)  utilize universal child and family assessments to improve placement, service, and payment rate  decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4698