The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Housing stabilization and relocation efforts also include outreach and engagement, landlord recruitment, case management, housing search and placement, legal se rvices, and credit repair. Bringing Families Home Program (BFH).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/7

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 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Primary Cost Driver: Average IHSS Hours Per Case The next main cost driver in IHSS is the average number of hours provided per case. As the number of hours of service provided to IHSS recipients increases, so does the overall cost of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - The state utilizes the flexibility provided by federal law by allocating TANF funds to a number of programs beyond CalWORKs. The state also counts significant state expenditures outside of CalWORKs toward meeting its MOE requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Such an approach, though, would work at cross ‑purposes with the state ’s policy goals of (1)  reducing the number of places and times a developer must apply and (2)  no longer potentially having scenarios in which a project is approved by one state entity but rejected by another.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2024-25 Budget: IS and IT Project Proposal Tables

Feb 9, 2024 - Appendix A Governor ’s 2024 ‑25 Budget Approved IT Projects a CDT Project Number
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4836

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Smaller numbers of counties opted for the remaining EBPs included in the state plan. Figure   6 illustrates how many counties selected each EBP in their CPPs. Appendix  B provides a full list of which counties selected each  EBP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Our understanding is that a number of DSS staff are working exclusively or primarily on Tiered Rate Structure Implementation preparation. Would these positions still be needed? What about the contract for the Financial Management Coordinator, and any other externally contracted parties?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Many Nonreporting Entities Receive and Use Threat Intelligence Information From Cal ‑CSIC … Many of the nonreporting entities we interviewed mentioned that they receive and use threat intelligence information from Cal ‑CSIC to, for example, block malicious Internet Protocol addresses —that is, unique identifiers associated with internet or network devices engaged in hacking attempts or
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Core activities include, but are not limited to, employment, community service, and job search activities. Noncore activities include certain job skills training and educational activities (with some exceptions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057