The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Other Policy Changes Changes to Administrator Certification Training Requirements. Individuals licensed as administrators, who oversee CCL-licensed facilities, are required to complete a department-approved certification program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Consider Requiring CDT to Develop Centralized IS Training Hub for IS Compliance Certification and Education. The Legislature also might consider requiring CDT to develop a centralized IS certification and training hub that helps educate and certify all state entity IS staff on current and forthcoming state IS policies, procedures, and standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - The state is required to maintain SSP monthly grant levels at or above the nominal levels in place in March  1983 ($156.40 for SSP individual grants and $396.20 for SSP couple grants) in order to receive federal Medicaid funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Social workers employed by county welfare departments conduct an in-home assessment of an individual ’s needs in order to determine the amount and type of service hours to be provided. In most cases, the recipient is responsible for hiring and supervising a paid IHSS provider —oftentimes a family member or relative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - “Timeliness of Death Certificate Data for Mortality Surveillance and Provisional Estimates. ” National Center for Health Statistics. Wang, Yun, Alexandre Chan, Richard Buettler, Marc Fleming, Todd Schneberk, Michael Nicol, and Haibing Lu (2024).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - These tasks include: locating difficult to find parents; certifying paternity; establishing, enforcing, and modifying child support orders; and collecting and distributing payments. In California, the child support progr am is administered by 47 county and regional local child support agencies (LCSAs), in partnership with local courts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/7

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The model will need to be automated into the child welfare data system in order for social workers to be able to input CANS data and determine a child ’s tier. Permanent Rates Will Vary Based on Tier.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Social workers employed by county welfare departments conduct an in-home assessment of an individual ’s needs in order to determine the amount and type of service hours to be provided. In most cases, the recipient is responsible for hiring and supervising a paid IHSS   provider —oftentimes  a family member or relative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Direct Service Professional (DSP) Training and Certification. The spending plan provides $2.9  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22, which ramps up to $51  million General Fund by 2023 ‑24 and ongoing, for the training and certification of DSPs and associated increases in DSP wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/1

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

May 24, 2024 - In order to continue forward toward eventually implementing the permeant rates structure under CCR, the Legislature could pass abridged TBL as part of this year ’s budget cycle, adopting the elements necessary to allow DSS and automation partners to begin preparing for implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909