The letter outlines the expectations for county Child Welfare Departments and Mental Health Plans for providing Specialty Mental Health Services, and preparing and submitting semi-annual progress reports related to Specialty Mental Health Services for children who have an open child welfare case. Part of the Katie A. implementation. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
Author: Jodie Berger
ACL 13-71: Implementation Of The Work Incentive Nutritional Supplement (WINS) Program Automation (9/10/13)
Working (or otherwise meeting TANF work requirements) and getting CalFresh? Have a minor child related to you (in the CalWORKs-sense) in the household? Not on CalWORKs? You may be eligible for a WINS food benefit (EBT Card) supplement and help California with it’s federal TANF work participation rate! Best yet, it is automatically issued if eligible, without any further being asked of CalFresh families. [WINS is a win-win program. Ok, you can groan.] Read all about it. [Download]
ACL 13-68: CalWORKs: Fourth Set Of Questions And Answers For SB 1041 CalWORKs WTW Program Changes (9/10/13)
Part of the series of Q & As to explain the details of the radical changes to CalWORKs welfare to work brought about by SB 1041. Goes over hours of participation, ed activities, general 24 month time clock Q’s, and transition issues. [Download]
ACL 13-74: CalFresh: New (And Revised) Forms For The Semi-Annual Reporting (SAR) System (9/10/13)
New system, new forms. [Download]
ACL 13-65: Revised CalFresh Expedited Service Quarterly Statistical Report (8/12/13)
Announcing the revised CalFresh Expedited Service Quarterly Statistical Report DFA 296X. The form has been revised to change the name from Food Stamps to CalFresh and (more importantly) to reflect compliance with Assembly Bill 1359. NOTE: the form will be posted “by 9/30/13” and is not yet available on line. [Download]
ACIN I-48-13: Annual CalFresh Participants By Race/Ethnicity Group Reports (8/12/13)
A reminder to counties to submit the annuanl CalFresh Participants by Race/Ethnicity reports. [Download]