The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - After completing initial required job search activities, WTW participants (who had not gained employment via job search) generally participated in a skills and education assessment and worked with county staff to develop a WTW plan (during which they identified longer term WTW activities to participate in, such as education or training, communit y service, and subsidized employment).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Since its inception in 2015, One California, also known as the Immigration Services Funding (ISF) program, has funded non-profit organizations to provide free services to immigrants under three broad categories: (1)  legal services, (2)  education and outreach, and (3)  legal training and technical assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/8

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Training for California ’s child welfare social workers and other child welfare staff is provided by five regional training academies (collectively referred to as CalAcademies), which offer training on a wide variety of topics and professional educational opportunities for child welfare staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Final Year of Funding for California Education Learning Lab. The budget package includes a final year of funding totaling $5.5  million from the General Fund for the California Education Learning Lab, with the intention to eliminate the program beginning in 2026-27 (which will achieve $4  million in ongoing savings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

CalFacts 2024 [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2024 - CalFacts presents a wide range of facts and trends about the state's economy, finances, and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4942

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Disproportionately Lower Levels of Educational Attainment. About one ‑quarter of heads of household in poverty had not completed high school, compared to about 11  percent of all heads of household who had not completed high school.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - For the educational attainment outcome, CDSS indicated it plans to enter into a data sharing agreement with the California Department of Education to fulfill the reporting requirement. Established a New Base Year for Caseload Reduction Credit Calculations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - This post provides an overview of information security (IS) proposals in the Governor’s 2023-24 budget, including our assessment and recommendations across the proposals and specific to the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - As shown in Figure 3, the Governor ’s budget proposes over $1.5  billion in total funds ($137  million General Fund) for other CDSS-administered food assistance programs and pilots in 2025-26 (some federal or state food programs, like the California Department of Education ’s Universal Meals Program, are administered by other departments).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

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

Mar 15, 2024 - Since 2018-19, CISP has awarded over $27  million to six nonprofit organizations that have provided direct legal services to over 19,000 individuals, as well as, education and outreach services to over 20,000 individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885