The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - We understand that federal Title IV ‑E funds can only be drawn down to cover costs associated with actual service costs. As a result, the state is ineligible to draw down $21  million in federal Title IV ‑E funds for Bridge vouchers in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

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 2018-19 Budget: Child Care Programs—Analysis of Governor’s Hold Harmless Rate Proposal

Mar 19, 2018 - In this post, we first provide background on the reimbursement rat e used for certain child care providers. We then describe and assess the Governor ’s related hold harmless provision and end by making associated recommendations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3787

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Title IV ‑E Claiming. As described in the background, Title IV ‑E reimbursement in California generally requires counties to spend $1 from local sources for every $1 of federal monies claimed. Counties currently may seek Title IV ‑E reimbursement for administration and training activities in preparation for implementing EBPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Feb 22, 2022 - FFPSA Optional Title IV ‑E Prevention Services (Part I). Regarding optional Title IV ‑E prevention services which California intends to implement as allowed by Part I of FFPSA, the 2021 ‑22 budget included one ‑time General Fund resources of around $222  million for this purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Specifically, they helped to better align the cost of th e programs with counties available revenue and better matched counties ’ costs with their level of programmatic control. For more information on 1991 realignment please see our analysis titled: Rethinking the 1991 Realignment .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - (The federally approved projects allowed participating counties to u se their Title IV-E dollars more flexibly. The projects ended in 2019, and from 2019 until 2021, the federal government provided step-down grants to help counties transition.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - However, since the se programs are locally implemented, some counties may have preemptively reduced services due to concerns over the funding reductions, resulting in varying service levels from county to county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - This was an average annual increa se of about 2  percent. We are working with the administration to better understand the reason for assuming the average hours per case will not increase in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009