Information on case management and eligibility issues related to Indian youth as Non-Minor Dependents (NMDs). The letter also provides guidance on Indian youth in out-of-home placements who are seeking to participate in the “After 18 Program.” [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
Foster Care
ACL 13-86: Assessing Youth Residing In Group Care Longer Than One Year (10/25/13)
The low down on the methodologies for assessing youth in group homes, with the goal of ending “congregate care” and moving foster youth into family homes. [Download]
ACIN I-67-13: Revisions To The Child Welfare Services Quarterly Outcomes Reports For The California Child And Family Services Review (10/25/13)
Providing notice of changes to Child Welfare report forms, to make the reports easier to use when comparing a county’s performance over multiple time frames and to facilitate the ability of counties to calculate the percent of change for performance measurement. [Download]
ACL 13-87: Changes To The Requirements For Placement In Group Homes For Children Ages Twelve And Under With The Passage Of Assembly Bill 74 (10/28/13)
An “effective immediately” change in the requirements for placement in group homes for children ages twelve and under. [Download]
ACIN I-57-13: Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP) (10/17/13)
Edgewood Center for Children and Families will no longer be providing technical assistance re: the KSSP, due to realignment of funding to the counties (and the fact that over the last 20 years, “staff have achieved a level of sophistication and self-sufficiency that permits the transition from contracted services to collaborative support and networking.” The last six months of the contract will be used for holding 3 regional meetings to facilitate peer-to-peer networking. [Download]
ACL 13-64: Registered Sex Offender (RSO) Address Matches Of Relative/Nonrelative Extended Family Member (NREFM) Approval And County Child Welfare Responsibilities (10/15/13)
Clarifying instructions to counties regarding procedures to protect minors and Nonminor Dependents from having contact with an RSO in a relative or Nonrelative Extended Family Member or court specified placement. Community Care Licensing is responsible for RSO investigations involving licensed facilities, and counties that license foster homes are responsible for investigating homes which they license. [Download]