Information to counties about the benefits of conducting qualitative reviews of programs across the entire continuum of child and family services. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-43-14: Assessments To Determine The Appropriateness Of The Group Home Placement For Children And Youth In Group Home Care Over One Year In Duration And Plans For Transitioning Into A Family-Based Setting (7/25/14)
Instructions to counties regarding assessing children in group homes. [Download]
DHCS APL 14-008: Standards for Determining Threshold Languages (7/15/14)
DHCS issued this letter to inform managed care plans of the updated dataset for threshold languages and language concentration standards. Included is the dataset and identified threshold languages for each county.
DHCS has revised MCP contracts to include the following language about threshold languages:
A population group of mandatory Medi-Cal beneficiaries residing in the service area who indicate their primary language as other than English, and that meet a numeric threshold of 3,000 or five-percent (5%) of the beneficiary population, whichever is lower.
DHCS MEDIL I 14-42: Denying Pending Applications from both the California Health Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System (CalHEERS) and the Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS) Access Channels (7/25/14)
This DHCS letter instructs counties to follow the procedures outlined previous in MEDILs I 14-23 and 14-30 when counties need to deny pending applications after ex parte reviews and two ten-day letters while CalHEERS functionality is pending. SAWS will issue interim procedures on denying pending applications.
DHCS MEDIL I 14-41: Immigration Documents Commonly Used by Lawfully Present Immigrants (7/21/14)
In this update letter, DHCS provides a non-exhaustive desk reference for the different examples of immigration documents that applicants may use for verification purposes. The letter includes illustrations of these documents.
ACIN I-38-14: California Department Of Social Services – County Collaboration On SOC 242 (7/18/14)
Highlighting “the momentous collaborative effort” (that started 5 years ago!) between DSS and the County Adult Protective Services (APS) program staff to revise the SOC 242 form, which will collect statistical information related to statewide APS data. A training module was also developed for working with the new form. [Download]