A reminder to counties to update and submit their Disaster Plans. The plans must include how a to continue to provide services to current dependents/wards; how to serve new cases; how to deal with disrupted worker communications, preserving records, and coordinating services and sharing information with other states. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACL 10-62: Specialized Care Increment (SCI) Determination Documents (12/20/10)
ACL 10-56: Regulations Adopted And Amended By The Association Of Administrators Of The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children (ICPC) (12/21/10)
Attached to the letter are the new regulations governing the Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children (ICPC), effective 10/1/10. The new changes are an amendment to the Interstate Relocation of Family Units, and a a new regulation, governing supervision of ICPC placements. [Download]
ACL 10-50: Sharing Ratios For Group Home Programs Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-11 (11/10/10)
This ACL provides current information regarding sharing ratios for group home programs for FY 2010-11, based on their Rate Classification Level.[Download]
ACL 10-36: Federal Incentive Funds For Post Adoptive Services (11/9/10)
Information about the federal Adoption Incentive Program (AIP), of $1,454,711. The AIP payment is required to be reinvested into the child welfare system, directed to counties that reported increased legal permanency outcomes for foster youth in FFY 2008. The incentive payments are to fund activities to improve legal permanency outcomes for foster youth ages nine or older. These activities include, but are not limited to: Post adoption services to avert adoption disruptions; Preparing youth for permanency by resolving barriers to adoption; Intensive family finding to locate relatives willing to make lifelong commitments to youth, including adoption and guardianship; Support to ensure successful permanency options for older foster youth; Recruitment of adoptive parents who are committed to keeping sibling groups together; Reunification with family members whose services were previously terminated. [Download]
ACL 10-52: Release Of Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) Grievance Hearing Regulations (11/30/10)
Passing on the new CACI Grievance Hearing regulations required by the Gomez v. Saenz court ordered settlement agreement. The regulations were effective September 3, 2010. [Download]