The (long!) title says it all. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
foster care | kin-gap
ACIN I-67-09: Family Engagement Efforts (FEE) (9/29/09)
Information to assist counties in meeting critical Child Welfare Services program documentation, data reporting, and program performance measurement requirements. This ACIN addresses a new measure, Item 18: Child and Family Involvement in Case Planning. [Download]
ACL 09-45: Foster Care , Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program And Adoption Assistance Program (9/30/09)
Budget bill implementation meets Child Welfare payments: AB 4 requires certain rates paid in the Foster Care Program decreased effective October 1, 2009. The state-approved foster care rates for out-of-home placements and Foster Care are provided in the letter. On the positive side, it also provides the new clothing supplemental payment information and that the infant supplement remains unchanged. [Download]
09-028 ERRATA: SOC 826 Child Fatality/Near Fatality County Statement Of Findings And Information (9/8/09)
This Errata transmits a revised form SOC 826 that was attached to the original ACIN. [Download]
ACL 09-31: Safety And Risk Assessments (8/17/09)
in 2007, the state funded implementation of a Standardized Safety Assessment tool in all 58 counties. (This was to address an indentified problem of lack of consistent safety, risk and needs assessments to child welfare cases.) This letter is the reminder to and guidance how to use the tool and to clarify the requirement for written assessments throughout the life of a child welfare case. [Download]
ACL 09-35: Waiver Of Right To Further Notice Of Adoption Planning And Waiver Of Right To Revoke Consent (7/28/09)
A review of recent statutory changes that affect adoptions. Topics include allowing a child’s presumed father to waive his right to notice of any adoption and/or to deny his paternity, before or after a child is born; clarifying that adoption agencies accepting a relinquishment from a child’s birth parent(s) are required to inform themthat during any time after the relinquishment is signed and before it is filed with CDSS, he or she may request the relinquishment be withdrawn; allows a child’s birth parent(s) to sign a waiver of the right to revoke consent to adoption. [Download]