California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - ACEs are associated with a range of negative physical and behavioral health outcomes long term, such as increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, substance abuse, and mental health challenges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Update on Paid Sick Leave Implementation Paid Sick Leave (PSL) Established for IHSS Providers in 2018-19. PSL became available on July 1, 2018 for IHSS providers who worked a certain number of hours within a calendar year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - Instead, FFA ‑supervised foster caregivers historically received a fixed supplemental per child per month payment on top of the standard foster care payment mandated by the state for all HBFC placements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The administration organizes each of the functionalities and fixes that are ready for deployment into one of several CalHEERS releases during the course of the year. (A release is a CalHEERS update that implements several defect fixes and new functionalities at once.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 16, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget [Publication Details] Description: In this report we provide a broad overview of the Governor's health and human services budget, highlighting major year-over-year changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3757

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

Feb 21, 2025 - The MOE amount also generally remains fixed from year to year, with some exceptions). State and federal CalWORKs funding generally is allocated to counties, all of which directly serve eligible families.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 expands the allowable uses of federal Title IV-E funding to include evidence-based and federally approved services to help prevent children and families from entering (or re-entering) the foster care system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - From 2018 through the first half of 2020, the trend was roughly flat around 500 deaths per quarter. These deaths jumped to 673 in the third quarter of 2020, then to 723 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As part of the 2018-19 Budget Act , the Legislature set a goal to increase CalWORKs grants to 50  percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family that is one person larger than the AU size (to account for CalWORKs households in which the actual family size is larger than the CalWORKs AU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - Then the IHSS MOE Will Increase By . . . 2018 ‑19
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886